Sunday, September 15, 2013

CREATING AFFIRMING ENVIRONMENTS

Comfort @ Zee will be the name of my Family child care Home. The name will help parents that are worried about leaving their young ones. When entering parent and the children will see a family room with adult chairs and little chairs with vibrant colors all around. This front room will also have the bulletin board where the breakfast and lunch menu is posted along with the daily calendar. This will also be my information board for the parents.  This will be room where the parent will sign in and take their child to their cubby area an hang up garments. I will be there to greet each parent and student daily. If parent have time I would get a brief summary about the child night and morning so me and my staff will know if the child had a goodnight rest. The second area will be the rest area where the children mats are kept. This area will have smoothing music and low lighting so the child can rest more comfortable. Each child will have their own blanket, pillow and any item that they choose to sleep with so that they will feel at home.
My next room will be the activities room which is the largest room in the house. There is a large colorful rug  in front of a fireplace where all the children meet for gathering time. There are many book shelves with all types of book.There are many playing stations with all types of toys for the children. There are tables chairs for meal time and activities time. The room is surrounding with all types of pictures on the wall with different racial and ethnic groups. The family and children  
is more than welcome to share any items they have.
I got ideas from both the readings and  from Adriana's Casa de Aprendizaje.