Environment That Inspire Complied By Susan Friedman

One of my learning moments was during our very first day of class. We created a “Gypsy Wagon Book” which is very interesting and unique to me because, this book can be used in a variety of ways for all ages. One way to use this book is that you could have your own students create their own story book, maybe of what they did over the summer, vacations they went on, birthday parties or just different activities that they did with friends and family. This book can be used for sequence of a story that you read to your students. Also this book could be used simply just as a journal for student to right in daily or once a week on how they are feeling.

In our childcare center we have a variety of materials placed where children are able to access and reach easily. There are six different learning centers for children to explore. There is a carpet area for circle time, a quiet area with books, an area with blocks and puzzles, an area for painting, writing and coloring to develop fine motor skills, and dress-up and pretend home area i.e. kitchen sets with dishes and pretend food,

The physical environment promotes literacy because it organized allowing the children to go explore and everything is in the out and open. The children can go to the book center and pick up a book or the children can go to the tables and explore things there. Each of the classes has a unique way they have everything set up. The preschool rooms have many things to promote literacy by pre(reading) and pre(writing) but the rooms are very tight and jam packed. This room here shows a lot more room and free space.

Observe the students during discussion and use a class list to write down commentaries each kid makes. Take a picture of each building with the children who created it. Ask them to tell you about their makings. Review the concept word strips and use them when commenting on each child’s building. Print the pictures and create a book for the students to look at with their observations and the pictures they drew.

Have a bookshelf set up for your children. Place activity, coloring, informational, and storybooks on it for your children to read whenever they want. There are also many printable activities and stories that can be found online. Children can use these printed pages to make books to place on the shelves.

Ever since I have decided that I wanted to be a teacher, I’ve been dreaming about how I will organize my classroom. There are many things I’ve seen and learned from that make me want certain things in my future classroom. For example, the last block class I was in taught me that having a family space is important. You want to make sure that the parents and families feel welcome. After learning all about family spaces, that is something that I definitely want to make sure I have space for.

Things such as a classroom library, a writing center, word walls, quiet reading areas and the seating arrangements that can help the classroom be the place where children will love to be reading, writing and learning.

While reading this article, I learned about interesting new things and the importance of using loose parts in an early childhood classroom. Children learn really fast, and when incorporating different things in their learning and just watching and guiding what they are going to do is pretty interesting too. Every child reacts different to certain materials, and it is pretty interesting to watch their actions. This article is going to help me in the classrooms

When thinking about a future 5th grade classroom which I would be setting up, I would create a literacy rich environment, by including the following items for use in the classroom. A space or area specifically for literacy would be created so that the students could go there and know that they will have a variety of resources and literacy rich materials to work with. “Empowering students to make decisions about topics, forms of communication, and selections of materials encourages them to assume greater ownership and responsibility for their engagement in learning.” (Guthrie & McCann, 1997, p.28). There would be many different types of printed materials such as books, newspaper and magazines. These would be for the students to use as reading

Ever since I was a little girl, I loved the outdoors. Every time I went outside I knew I stood a chance at seeing something completely new if I simply looked hard enough. Now, it is worth noting that I was never the girl who played with Barbie dolls or was super “girly.” Instead, to my mother’s obvious disappointment, I chose to make mud pies in the driveway with my little brother and enjoyed playing with toy dinosaurs. Sure, I had a few random Polly Pocket sets, but the dolls generally were ignored, and the rubber outfits from those sets almost always seemed to end up mixed into the gargantuan box of plastic dinos that sat in the corner of my room. Oddly enough, I did occasionally dress up the dinosaurs.

The environment is the domiciliary created as a gift by mother nature, to give us a place to work, grow, play, and live. However these days, our beloved environment is being polluted, rigorously. We humans and other living creatures depend upon the environment and our natural surroundings. It gives us all the essentials for survival, such as oxygen/fresh air, food, shelter, and water. It is always there for us, whether we need a peaceful, serene escape from our fast-paced cities, or when we’re feeling a little adventurous, and just need a chance to explore. The environment has made beauty accessible to us, right out our front door. Mountains, caves, beautiful landscapes, and idiosyncratic animal species, are all “Yours to Discover.” Yet,

Some strategies that preschool teachers can use to ensure their environments are small group activities and gross motor activities. Small group activities can be activities like Play-Doh, easel painting, the chef in housekeeping, and table

Douglas Head Start II, Sherry Broadnax, and Gloria Hendley are in charge of eighteen preschooler ages children. The classroom is well organized with colorful pictures, children’s art, and books to enhance their literacy. The enrichment from the environment print, picture books, story tapes, books and children’s experiences, and several children’s art. As a future educator this experience helps me to understand the meaningful of environmental print has in literacy in the children’s life. The teacher involves the parents by requesting and sending materials and works with them to enhance children’s interest and learning. every activity centers are label in English and Spanish, shorten by size and pictures of each area which are an incredible

Using the walls of the classroom is also a way to create a literacy rich classrromm enviorment (Lyon, 1998) this can vary from a simple alphabet line to the essay written by the children. It is important to have print display promentaly around the classroom so the kids can was a visual aid to their writing. This can be achieve throught something big like a word wall where the a group of words are displated on the wall of the classroom. The words are prineted in a larfe font so that they are easily visible for the students. This project is usally done by having the whole classroom collaborate as a team and can be center around a commen theme.

One aspect of my lesson that worked well was the Bingo game. My peers were very interested in playing the game and many of them were getting the answers correct. Many of them made comments on