Saturday, October 25, 2014

A classroom that has arrangement, structure, use of activities, and organization.

Here are some excellent sites to visit when trying to arrange, structure, organize, or use activities in your classroom.  The numbers are linked below to the websites that each were taken from.  Be sure to check out these amazing websites!
 
1. Some ways to keep classrooms arranged, structured, and organized with activities is to always keep the classroom in a routine.  Play time is especially important in preschool for the children’s social skills to become better and for the children to learn how to play together and share.  Through playtime the children are learning different colors and shapes, without even realizing it.

2. Another way that classrooms can be arranged and structured and organized is with hands on activities.  These activities can be organized that the children are learning what is needed for kindergarten, with actual items.  The children are going to be able to learn more with activities then with sitting and listening to a teacher talk.

3. A great way to keep the classroom organized is by making it welcoming to the children who are coming in.  Preschoolers like a bright cheerful place to be and that is what a preschool classroom should look like.  My preschool classroom is decorated for seasons, but also with frogs every because the name is Jump into Learning Preschool.  I wanted to keep the theme, while keeping it changing with the seasons

4. The last way that I am going to talk about in this blog, is that centers are a great way to keep structure, but also to keep organization.  The centers are used to divide the children up into small groups, and to be able to play with different toys or educational games.  The centers provide quieter playtime , but still learning and socializing.