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Elefyc Assignment 2

The document discusses the layout and design of an early childhood center. Several design elements are aimed at ensuring children's safety, well-being, and development, such as placing windows in rooms so teachers can supervise, separating noisy and quiet areas, and using child-sized furniture to encourage independence. Safety is also promoted through cushioned flooring, clear emergency exits, and arranging spaces like the diapering area so teachers can monitor other children. The design aims to create a secure environment where children can explore and learn.

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Elefyc Assignment 2

The document discusses the layout and design of an early childhood center. Several design elements are aimed at ensuring children's safety, well-being, and development, such as placing windows in rooms so teachers can supervise, separating noisy and quiet areas, and using child-sized furniture to encourage independence. Safety is also promoted through cushioned flooring, clear emergency exits, and arranging spaces like the diapering area so teachers can monitor other children. The design aims to create a secure environment where children can explore and learn.

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Rationale: At each of the entrances, sofas are placed so that the parents can sit there

while waiting to fetch their children comfortably. At both bays, windows are placed at

every room. This ensures that no matter where the teachers are, they can observe what

the children are doing. This allows the teachers to ensure the children’s safety. By

providing this safety to the children, they will begin to feel more safe and secure to

explore the environment around them, hence encouraging development in the children

(Khan, 2016). At the infant bay, children of different motor skills developmental

milestones are separated into their respective milestones (non-mobile infants, crawling

infants, walking infants). This nullifies the chaos that would happen if the children were

all to be put together as the mobile infants might compromise the safety of the non-

mobile infants by crawling/stepping on them. Cushioned flooring is used at the

movement development area so that the children will not injure themselves if they were

to fall. This ensures the safety and wellbeing of the children, creating a safe

environment for the children to explore and develop in. At both bays, the noisy areas

and quiet areas are separated. This provides a conducive learning environment for the

children. For example, at the infant bay, the noisy areas (diapering/showering area,

feeding area, meal preparation area) are placed on the extreme left while the quiet

areas (sleeping area, storage area/ sick bay, language and literacy area) are positioned

at the extreme right. By separating the noisy and quiet areas, the children will not get

distracted in the classroom, which will encourage the children to use the materials they

find to the fullest potential, maximising the impact each resource has on each child’s

development (Sanroff, 1995). The messy art corner is strategically placed beside the

toilet for infants so that the children will have minimal distance to cover to wash their
hands. This will ensure that the mess that the children make around the class will be

minimal as compared to if they were to walk a long distance to wash their hands. The

storage of the cots is in the sleeping area to reduce the waiting time for the children to

lie down on their cots. This prevents the children from getting upset if the waiting time

was too long. Mirrors are placed at both the movement development area as well as the

music and movement room so that the children can observe the way they move their

bodies. Through this, the children can experiment and find out the different ways they

can manipulate their bodies to move, helping them understand their bodies better. It

also gives the children a sense of identity as they observe themselves through the

mirror (Lincolne, 2018). The pathway to the emergency exit is left unobstructed so that

there will be no hazards compromising the safety of everyone in the case of an

emergency. Child-sized furniture like low chairs as well as low shelves are used so that

the children can independently access the materials. This encourages autonomy and

self-confidence in the children as they can independently access the resources found

around the centre without the help of an adult (Kaplan Early Learning Company, n.d.).

The diapering table at the infant bay is placed in a position which allows the teacher to

observe the rest of the infants in the room while diapering the infant. This ensures the

safety of all the infants as the teacher is always monitoring their actions, reducing the

chances of an accident happening as well as providing a sense of security to the

infants.
References

Kaplan Early Learning Company. (n.d.). How Child-Sized Furniture Can Foster

Independence. Retrieved from https://www.kaplanco.com/ii/furniture-fosters-

independence

Khan, O. (2016). The Importance of Felt Safety in Early Childhood Education. Retrieved

from https://abc123learningcenter.com/2016/02/01/the-importance-of-felt-safety-

in-early-childhood-education/

Lincolne, P. (2018). Why do toddlers love playing with mirrors? Retrieved from

https://babyology.com.au/toddler/behaviour-and-discipline/why-do-toddlers-love-

playing-with-mirrors/

Sanroff, H. (1995). Creating Environments for Young Children. Retrieved from

https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED394640.pdf

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