for infants and toddlers by: kara hoffman, heather fleig, and sidney sullivan tree top’s physical...
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FOR INFANTS AND TODDLERS
By: Kara Hoffman, Heather Fleig, and Sidney Sullivan
TREE TOP’S PHYSICAL
ENVIRONMENT
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Our Rating System
No improvements needed
Few Minor Improvements needed
Many Minor improvements needed
Few Major improvements needed
Many Major improvements needed
The environment rating will be found in the top left hand corner in every slide
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Soft
We offer….• laps to the children• Non-squishy wall-to-wall carpet which
lends itself well to newly walking infants• Soft pillows and mattresses• Soft bouncy balls and blocks• Grass and sand
Landing Pad for Slide
Book Nook Sleeping Bags and Cribs
Soft Blocks
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Hard
Bench
Geoclimber and Balance Beam Sidewalk and Blacktop
Blocks and Legos
We offer• Walks on the sidewalks and blacktop• Hard benches and stools
Improvement• Bike path in the backyard so infants
and toddlers can practice running or ride their trikes
Wooden Tunnel
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Intrusion
Looking from the infant room into the Two and preschool room
View from the top into other rooms
View into the Two Room
Low windows visits from firefighters
parents licensers
We offer• Low windows to bring the outside in• The licenser and firefighter visit yearly • Parents sometimes come in for a visit• Our room dividers are made of Plexiglass and bars
which allows the infants and toddlers to look into the other rooms. This also makes for an easy transition to the Two Room.
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Seclusion
Wooden tunnelTree tunnel
crib
swingcastle
Exersaucer
We offer• Many places for children who are needing time to themselves• A “castle” which is a large lofted play-yard that children can also
crawl underneath. We set this up when we have many low-mobility babies.
Improvements• We would like to make a lofted area that children can access by
themselves
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Closed Dimension
We offer-• Toys that are used for a specific purpose • Storage in the basement for teachers use so we can easily
rotate toys• We keep our art supplies in the laundry room• We keep snacks and dishes up in a cabinet in the infant room
so we don’t have to leave the room or leave the children unattended.
Puzzles and other closed toys
High book shelvesHigh storage Radio and other materials out of children’s reach
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Open Dimension
We offer-• Manipulatives that are open-
ended • Toys that are easily
accessible; on the floor and low shelves
• There are no dividing walls in the infant room so all children are visible
Open ended toys
Low shelving
Manipulatives on the floor for infants
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Simple Dimension
Buckets to dump
Plates and cups
• Bottles with colored water
and other materials inside
Balls to throw
We offer-• Plastic bottles with colored water and other things to shake• Buckets to dump• Cups and Plates in our kitchen area
Improvements• Add more everyday objects like pots and pans • Include more varieties of textures
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Complex Dimension
Dishes and kitchen Sand, buckets, and dump trucksWe offer-
• A sandbox outside to experience scooping and dumping
• A kitchen area with dishes and foods
• Teacher directed complex activities such as bringing in a tub of water and a variety of scooping and pouring containers
Improvements• Bring sand and water inside more
often• Offer more complex sensory
experiences
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Low MobilityWe offer-• Caregivers laps for the infants and toddlers• Teacher is always near by to make sure low
mobile infants are kept safe on the floor
Improvements• We can bring out the castle when
necessary
Heather keeping guardswings
Buggy
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High MobilityWe offer-• An indoor slide for gross motor exercise • Pull up bar for infants and toddlers to strengthen their
arms and legs• Many things to explore in a safe environment
Indoor slide
Sidewalks to run on
Pull up barGeoclimber
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ScaleWe offer-• The pictures on the wall are at the children
height • The toys are on low shelves or the floor to
make them easily accessible.
Improvements• We will be getting table and chairs that
the infants and toddlers can get into and out of independently.
• Stairs up to the changing table so they can go up by themselves.
Infant Book
Nook
• Low Bars
• Table • Kitchen Set Pictures
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AestheticsWe offer-• Neutral colored walls and carpeting• Big windows that offer natural light• Wood tones• Soft muted colored valances
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Acoustics
We offer-• Proper group sizes• Soft mattresses, pillows, and stuffed animals to absorb the sound
Improvements-• A nap room• Padded ceiling to mute sound
Soft Things
Carpet
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Order• The infant room is set up so
there are certain areas so the children can focus.
• We have obstacles to break up the room that children can crawl through, around, and over.
• We have a slide so children can practice stepping up
• There are nooks cut out with interest areas
• We have organized adult shelves for things that are inappropriate for children to be playing with.
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Obstacles
We do not have enough money or space to do all the
things that we would like to incorporate
into the center