Module 1
Carpets are difficult to keep clean and sometimes unsuitable for allergic children, but they are warm to play on and absorb sound.
Loose rugs on hard surfaces like ceramic tiles are dangerous. Synthetic coverings are the most suitable, because they are comfortable to walk on, easy to keep clean and reasonably priced.
1.1.11 Display space
Open shelves must also be provided within the playroom so that children have access to play materials and equipment. Tis allows free choice and encourages the practice of tidying up aſter play periods.
If the top of the shelving is set at 500 mm for younger children and 600 mm for older children, it will provide a suitable worktop and display area.
Shelves in the playroom should preferably be movable and not built in a unit style, for easy arranging. Tey should include the following: Low, open toy shelves for housing play materials. Tey should be within easy reach of the children, and should be designed to accommodate blocks, manipulative toys and pull-along toys.
Shelves for creative materials, paint, scissors, paste and waste material. Tese should be easily accessible to the children.
Shelves for books in the book corner, so devised that the children can learn to handle books carefully and replace them aſter use. A rack at the eye-level of the children is very satisfactory for a movable book trolley.
1.1.12 Storage
Playrooms should be provided with storage spaces for indoor equipment and play materials. Suitable positions for storage of the main equipment should first be determined. Tis will save a great deal of unnecessary walking about by children and staff. Equipment should be stored near the area where children or staff will use it. It could be stored on shelves, in cupboards, on vegetable racks, in cardboard boxes or in shoe bags. Open shelves should be provided within the playroom so that children have access to play materials and equipment. Tis allows free choice.
Storage of material is important. It needs to be well thought out and properly used. Sometimes adapted and improvised storage space is more useful and convenient than commercially produced units.
Te way you store things is very important. To allow the toddlers to develop independence, they must be able to get and find things themselves. Tis means that everything must have its special place and should be marked, so that the children can recognise it, with a sample, a picture or a drawing.
Tings and equipment that are dangerous and valuable, e.g. tape recorders, tapes, story aid equipment, e.g. puppets, etc. should be stored in a safe place out of reach.
Tere should be a special place to store books: high shelves or in a lockable cupboard for the books that the educarer and the toddlers look at together, and low shelves in the book corner to which the toddlers have easy access.
Te blocks are arranged and stored on open, low shelves near the block corner. Paint diagrams on the shelves to show where each type of block belongs. Where possible, the blocks should be stored lengthwise so the toddler can identify their shapes. Te large and heavier boxes are kept on the bottom shelves.
Provide enough storage space in the fantasy corner. Toys and clothes, equipment and other accessories should be neatly stored on shelves for shoes, hats, etc.
Paint, brushes, scissors, paste and waste materials, paper and other equipment for creating art must 6 FutureManagers
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