The kindergarten daycare furniture in classrooms should support children's independence in meeting their routine care needs and in conducting their play and learning activities. Basic kindergarten furniture for routine care includes tables and chairs for meals and snacks, including infant seats and high chairs as well as child-size tables and chairs; cribs, cots, mats for rest or nap; diapering table and storage for diapering supplies; and cubbies for storage of children's personal items and creative work. Additional kindergarten furniture available from Kaplan to facilitate specific types of play includes easels for art activities, sand and water tables, workbenches, and dramatic play furniture. Each individual classroom needs two different types of storage for the children’s learning materials. The first type you need is the low open shelving units on which materials are displayed and made accessible to children throughout the day. While this is often referred to as storage, it could more accurately be described as display. Teachers rotate materials on and off of these low display shelves as themes and seasons change from week to week or month to month, allowing different experiences for the children in the room. Caution should be used to not overly crowd these shelves with materials or children may have a difficult time seeing what they want or putting things away. It is important to have a second type of storage available in classrooms for learning materials. This is considered closed storage which is only accessed by the classroom teachers. This can be provided through a combination of closets, high shelving and closed cabinetry. Centers also often have seasonal supplies and bulky equipment that needs to be stored outside of classrooms. A large, well organized walk-in closet will provide space to store these surplus materials and large equipment that is not currently in use.
Kindergarten tables and chairs for sitting at during large group times such as lunch, and working at during small group times are the most important pieces of kindergarten furniture in the classroom. They should be pleasing to the eye and proportionate in both size and color to the rest of the room. In each classroom in school there are light wood colored tables with colored borders around the edges which add both calm and color to the classroom. In some kindergarten classroom, you want the color and the vibrancy of the room to come from the children themselves; from their drawings and paintings, from their constructions and their distinct personalities. For this, the preschool tables are attractive but more muted in color. The chairs match the colored edges. This allows for continuity as the children move from grade to grade but also subtly suggests to the children that they are indeed growing and changing from year to year, just as the kindergarten furniture does. It is absolutely essential that kindergarten furniture meets this elementary need for motion perfectly so that children’s development process is supported. Eating is specially designed for use in the kindergarten in that it doesn’t restrict kids’ need for movement and allows them plenty of healthy movement while seated.
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