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This is my dramatic play center. I have puppets and dollhouses to play with. I have multi-cultural dolls and food for the kids to play with.
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This is a magnetic white board.
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The next pic is of our wall mirror and our housekeeping toys. The kids love to help me clean-up by "vacuuming", "sweeping" and "mopping" the floor.
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The first pic shows my math and manipul. center. I keep a few pocket charts over here as well as our overhead projector (got that for a steal at a school auction- $1). I also have geboard board, pegboards, dress boards, etc. in this area.
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The other pic is were I keep a few of our boardgames and other misc. items.
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This is my art clothline. Because I don't have much wall space I use the clothline to display the children artwork.
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The next picture is my changing table. IT's in my laundry room right off my preschool room. I have a mirror so the kids can look at themselves and on the shelf above the table I have pictures of different babies for the children to look at.
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This is my block center. Most of the items I found at yard sales for a few dollars.
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Each child has his own cubbie to store their belongings. I have little baskets in the bottom to hold their extra clothes and their house slippers. On the very top of the cubbies is our sign in book along with an aquarium with our two hermit crabs- Kim Possible and Sheego and my daughter's parakeet Ali.
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The parent board is next to the door and I keep our daily schedule, lesson plan, and calendar on it. I also attach brochures and notices about different child care issues and activities going on in our community.
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The first set of pics is of our library center. There's also two felt board tuckes away on the side for the children to use to tell felt stories. I have a tape player and audio books for the children to use. I also keep my phonic listening activities and thematic flip books in this area.
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The writing center is my favorite center. I got this white board from a school auction and painted one side with chalkboard paint and left the other side the way it was.
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This is our art center. I got this ugly green shelf from one of the larger day care center's yard sale. I haven't had a chance to paint it yet. I try to keep out as much art materials as possible, but it's hard with two very active toddler boys tearing everything down. (LOL)
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Under the parent board is my music and movement center. In the red container on top I have ribbon streamers and dancing scarves for the kids to use.
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In the drawers I keep our bean bags, parachute, and hopsotch mat. (all things I got with my grant). In the next two drawers I keep all of our music instruments.
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The first is of my playroom table. We do everything but eat at this table. Each child has his or her "personal" chair. I taped pictures of them on the back on them to help cut back on fighting over chair. It's cute to see my toddler boys walking around the table looking at each chair til they find their own. LOL
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The last picture is of our picnic table in the kitchen. This is were we eat all of our meals.