Indoor and Outdoor

Environment

Preschool Classroom

Ages 3-5

12-15 Children

Classroom Furniture

Table and chairs for writing center

Cost $279.99

2 Tables and chairs for activity centers

Cost $398.00

Manipulatives center

Cost $474.99

Science Table

Cost $299.99

Music Media Center

Cost $369.99Art storage shelf

Cost $549.99

Craft and listening station

Cost $610.29Dramatic Play activity loft

Cost $3,999.99

6 Storage shelves

Cost $2,333.94

Sensory Play Station

Cost $299.99

Sensory Table

Cost $234.95

Art Station

Cost $479.99

Dramatic Play Materials

Dolls

Cost $100

Dress Up Clothes Cost $60.00

Dramatic Play

Career Vests

Cost $60.00

Doctor Set

Cost $27.99

Cash Register

Cost $ 36.99Ethnic Play Food

Cost $79.99

Dishes

Cost $47.99

Play food

Cost $55.99

Puppets Cost $49.99 Tool Box Cost $27.99

Math and Manipulatives

Counting Bears $19.99 Peg number boards

Cost $24.99

Math Sheets $23.99 Unifix Cubes $12.79

Dino Stomp $ 27.99 Bear pattern cards $10.99 Pattern blocks $20.99

Sorting Center $45.99 Motor Activity set $29.99 Math center $29.99

Sequencing pocket chart

$19.99Shape Puzzles $ 19.99 Pattern books $ 49.99

Language and Literacy

Alphabet sorting $39.99Spelling game $ 19.99 Magnetic letters $ 11.99

Motor skill set $ 39.99 Vocab center $29.99 Alphabet Activity Game

$34.99

Word building sets $23.99 Dry Erase lap boards

$ 4.99 Fairy Tales stories, books, & CD

$98.99

File folder games $38.99 A-Z Pegboards $79.98 Puzzle boards $28.99

Building Center

Building blocks $44.99

Foam building blocks

$149.99

Wooden Play Trucks

$28.99

Farm Block Play Set

$ 37.99Play People

$66.99

Train Set

$59.99

Doll House $179.99Parking garage $98.99

Outdoor Play Area

Big Playhouse $929.99Climber and Slide Set

$4,999.99Caterpillar Tunnel $449.99

Alfresco Kit $1,249.99 Picnic table $1,069.99See Saw $154.99

Sandbox $289.99 Basketball Hoop $86.99Out door Art Easel $249.99

5 Hopper balls $84.95 Drum Set $97.99 Skill Set $149.99

Balls $13.99 Out door Play Kit $234.99 Sand Set $82.99

INDOOR ENVIRONMENTS SHOULD BE:

Rich in Experience. Children need to explore, experiment, and learn basic knowledge through direct experience. Childhood is a time for children to learn about the world around them through physical exploration. Their environment should have many opportunities for children to explore and discover their world.

Rich in Play. Play provides a way for children to integrate all their new experiences into their rapidly developing minds, bodies, emotions, and social skills. Brain research supports this idea, stressing that children learn best through an integrated approach combining physical, emotional, cognitive, and social growth. Children need lots of room, toys and time to play.

Rich in Teaching. The role of the teacher is critical in a child’s life. Children depend on teachers to be their confidant, colleague, model, instructor, and nurturer of educational experiences.

Rich with People. Clearly children need lots of exposure to other people in their early childhood years. Social Development is important in the preschool years. Children need opportunities to interact and engage with other people.

Significant to Children. Young children need to feel important. Children need to feel that what they do is meaningful to someone besides themselves. Children should be given important and meaningful jobs in the classroom.

Places Children Can Call Their Own. A basic human need is the need to belong. Children need to feel they belong, too. They need to be close to people they know, have familiar and comfortable objects, and be in a setting that has a personal history for them.

OUT DOOR ENVIRONMENTS SHOULD:

Have adequate materials for children’s Gross motor

development

There should be plenty of activities for children to engage in to help keep them active and learning

There should be plenty of space for children to run around and

get physical exercise

All out door equipment should be in good repair and safe for

children to play on

There should be natural materials in the play area such as trees,

plants, acorns, grass, pine cones

There should be materials for dramatic play and creative thinking activities

CORE COMPETENCIES Child Growth and Developments: Level 3

a. Recognizes that interaction with people and the environment stimulates the child’s brain function and therefore brain growth and development.

Curriculum and Learning Environment: Level 1

c. Plans regular daily activities that include indoor and outdoor activities.

d. Maintains a physically and emotionally safe environment and creates learning spaces with focus on safety, health, routines and play/exploration.

e. Recognizes that infants and toddlers need spaces that promote movement and exploration.

f. Offers children choices.

g. Supports and encourages children’s participation in a variety of activities

Promoting Physical Development: Level 1

a. Understands that gross and fine motor skills develop along a continuum.

b. Allows infants and toddler daily opportunities for gross and fine motor play.

c. Interacts appropriately with children during physical activities.

d. Plans for daily outdoor gross motor play time.

e. Plans for indoor gross motor play time when

being outdoors is not possible due to inclement weather.

f. Participates actively in children’s activities.

g. Ensure child safety during gross motor play