Classroom Design and Learning Centers

How are our classrooms designed?

In our preschool classrooms, learning centers are designed for specific types of exploration and activities. These centers include Blocks, Dramatic Play, Library & Literacy, Art, Table Toys, Sand & Water, Science/Nature, Technology and Music.

Block Center

Encourages and supports construction, sharing, problem solving. Children can also improve large and small motor skills. The Block area promotes children to create and discuss structures and communities. The block learning center also teaches children about basic engineering, cause and effect, vocabulary, and mathematics.

Art Center

Encourages creative expression by using a variety of materials. The Art area also encourages fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination and provides many opportunities for using descriptive vocabulary. Art is designing, defining, exploring and creating. Art areas support the process of doing and exploring the tools of art

Dramatic Play

Encourages and enhances social-emotional and language development, self-regulation, and creativity. The Dramatic Play area is a place where children can express themselves, practice diversity, and develop language through role play and with peers. Dramatic play helps children to make sense of their world as they act out both real and imaginative roles

Toys and Games

Encourages problems solving, literacy concepts, engineering, children's fine motor skills and beginning math concepts. This area also supports sharing and taking turns as well as building confidence, imagination, and vocabulary. Cognitive concepts are also explored.

Literacy and Library

Encourages and promotes literacy development. The Library and Literacy areas are quiet places for children to go develop their reading, writing, listening and comprehension skills. These areas will promote Language Arts Literacy and encourage children to learn about interests while developing enthusiasm for reading and writing.

Sand and Water

Encourages children to participate in sensory play through problem solving and experimenting. Children gain experiences in measurement, textures, conservation of volume and physical science and engineering. The sensory experience of these tables also can help to soothe a child who is distressed.

Music and Movement

Encourages children to experiment with sound and music while promoting creativity, imagination, and self-expression. Beat, rhythm, rhyme, and movement concepts are developed.

Discovery

Provides children with opportunities to promote and practice scientific investigation skills such as observation, experimentation, hypothesizing, data collection, and developing a conclusion. Concepts in matter and energy, living things, the Earth, and technology are developed as well as expanded vocabulary.

Technology

Encourages children to investigate subjects and interests. Integrating technology ensures that children are becoming digitally literate. Children learn how to navigate a screen, use devices, communicate electronically, use basic technology vocabulary, and seek information.

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