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Preschool Classroom
Games are the integral part in a preschool classroom. These class rooms are well furnished, painted with primary colors and a variety of materials. They are specially designed to attract the preschoolers to grow their natural curiosity and let them dive into the depth of basic knowledge.
The associate executive director for professional development at the National Association for the Education of Young Children, Marilou Hyson, quoted "what there is to do and how to do it," indicates the important message to the children. The room where the little students are taught has to be very special to grow their interest towards study as well as stimulating them to cooperate positively with each other.
The preschoolers feel insecure when they are away from the parents. To be habituated in a school environment, especially classroom must be colorful and innovative. They will learn to control, discover, nestle, and have fun and share from the world they exist. The design of the decoration is relevant to their education. This classroom signifies child's natural inquisitiveness and desire to adapt with its fragrance of wisdom.
There are many learning centers in Preschool classrooms. These distinct parts permit children to take part in and search materials under the guidance of the teacher either individually or in small assembly. The skill of writing, reading and math are not restrained to specific centers instead it reinforces in different ways right through the centers by means of communication, traveling around and engage in recreation.
When the preschoolers find brightly illustrated children's books displayed on low shelves in the class which they feel safe and secure to introduce reading and to sound out words by the help of the teachers. The combination of various painted books inspires the kids to listen tapes of stories with the headsets following the pictures in their books. Some of them also enjoy sitting in the fashionable chairs and small tables with paper, crayons and markers to practice drawing and writing.
The first grade toddlers’ trial with different roles which filled with props and dress-up clothes to encourage imagination through pretend play. They take pleasure in a kitchen with a play stove, sink and dishes; a post office, restaurant, or airplane. This event assists them to achieve the ability to work with other children, to share, compromises, practice verbal skills, developing an understanding of symbolic representation.
The classroom of preschools is structured in various ways of learning. Stringing beads Lagos, puzzle, pegboards, beads, blocks, computer etc and other small construction toys expand fine motor skills using their fingers and hands in creative ways. Thus it is the room of entertainment, knowledge, freedom to be sprouted as a new generation with an all-rounder soul and spirit.