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School: La Petite Academy Telephone: 702-255-9252

2. Teacher: Ms. Becky Age/grade level: 4/Pre-K

3. Number children enrolled in the class 17

4. List all of the centers and the number of children each center can

Accommodate.

Wood working center (2) Science center (3) Cozy corner (2)

Dramatic place center (3) Art center (2)

Block center (3) Writing center (4)

Math center (4) Reading Center (4)

Circle carpet (4) Sensory Tub (2)

5. I will be bring in the floor plan as I couldn’t get it to upload.

6 & 7. Comprehensive checklist for the classroom’s physical environment.

1) Arrangement of Physical Space

 Ample indoor space for children, adults, and furnishings.

 There is a lot of room in this classroom but not so much that
the children can run.

 Cozy area is not used for active physical play

 The Cozy area is just for relaxing, there is a couch and books

for the children to have some quiet time.

 Quiet and active centers placed to not interfere with one another
  The cozy corner is in the corner of the room away from the

dramatic play center and the block center.

 Space is arranged so most activities are not interrupted

 The centers are pretty much arranged this way except the

carpet center, people tend to walk through it.

 Centers are organized for independent use by children.

 Yes the centers are organized and labeled so the children can

use the centers independently.

 Children are allowed to find or create space for privacy

 Not present

 Space for privacy can be easily supervised by staff

 Not present

 Space set aside for one or two children to play, protected from

intrusion by others.

 There is an alone center for one child to play in, only issue is

that it’s by the door.

  All cots/mats are at least 3 feet apart/ Space is conductive to resting

 The mats are at least three feet apart and the space is

conductive for the resting students.

 The room should be arranged in such a manner that dead space is

not present.

 No dead space present

 Arrange classroom space so that it allows the most efficient use of

your time and energy. The placement of equipment and centers

should allow for easy supervision without excessive walking.

 The teacher can see the students from any area of the

classroom that she is at.

 Are there spaces in the room specific to each child and labeled as

such?

 Yes Children have their own cubbies with their picture and

name.

2) Learning Materials, Equipment and Furniture

 Sufficient furniture for routine care, play and learning.

  There is multiple centers in the classroom for the children to

pick from.

 All furniture is sturdy and in good repair

 All the furniture in the room is in good shape.

 Most furniture is child sized

 All the furniture in the classroom is child sized.

 Woodwork bench, sand/water table, or easel used

 They have all three in this classroom.

 Cozy area accessible to children for a substantial portion of the day

 It is available throughout the day.

 Soft furnishing in addition to cozy area accessible to children

 There is a soft couch and bean bag chair in the cozy area.

 Many clean, soft toys accessible to children.

 There are some stuffed animals and pillows.

 At least five different interest centers provide a variety of learning

experiences.
  There is many centers in this classroom.

 Some children’s work displayed

 There is multiple places in the room with children’s art work.

 Most of the display relates closely to current activities and children in

group.

 The activities are all within the last month.

 Many items displayed on child’s eye level.

 There are many items displayed at child’s eye level.

 Three-dimensional child creative art work.

 Not Present

3) Storage of Materials and Equipment

 Appropriate materials for predominant age group/ materials in each

center appropriate for the range of developmental level your

children exhibit

 The material in that classroom is appropriate for the age

group.
  The objects in the storage bins are not heavy for the children.

 The bins are only filled half way, not heavy at all.

 Are teacher supplies out of reach of children

 The teacher has a closet for the teacher supplies.

 Closets for teacher belongings are locked.

 The teachers closet has a lock on it so the children can’t get

into it.

4) Other Elements of Physical Environment

 Adequate lighting, ventilation temperature control.

 There is lighting from the lights, as well as windows and doors.
 They have control of the temperature in the classroom.
 Space reasonably clean and well maintained
 The classroom is pretty clean and maintained
 Routine care furniture is convenient to use (Mats sored for easy
access.)
 There is a roll away cart that has the children’s mats on them.

8. Describe and evaluate how the teacher represented the issue of

diversity in the physical environment. (5 pts)

In this classroom there is so many different representative of diversity, they

have different wall covers, they have some diversity books, multi-cultural

dolls as well as some multi-cultural books.

9. a. While the children are involved in independent play they get to

choose which children they would like to play with. Usually it’s anywhere

from two to four children in a center. All the shelves are labeled as well as

the toy bins, so that they children can see what is available in the center.

Pretty much anything is available for the children to use throughout the

day.

b. While the children are playing sometimes their play gets interrupted

because the teacher pulls them to come do a project at the table with her.

The children in this room interact with each other a lot. In the dramatic play

center you can see children using the housekeeping objects to pretend to

be cooking dinner or taking care of the babies. In the block center I saw

children talking about the road they were building and where it went to.

One student was using the airplanes to make an airport.

2. Write an overall evaluation of the Learning Environment. (21 pts)

a. Rating: Using a scale of 1-5, with 5 being the best, if you were the

director or principal of this school how would you rate this learning

Environment?

The learning environment in this classroom I would rate it a 4. There are so

many centers for the children to play in. There is many types of centers, as
well as learning materials for the students to engage in. There are pictures

of their work on the walls for the students to look at and see. The room is

also set up so that there are not as many opportunities for the children to

just run around and get into trouble. Even while the children are playing

they are also having the opportunity to learn as well.

b. Strengths & Weaknesses: Specifically explain your rating by identifying

the strengths and weaknesses you observed.

The strengths that I observed was the openness of the room, but the

closeness of the centers, what I mean by that is that the room has so many

centers that it elevates the open floor for running. One weakness I notice

while observing is one of the teachers would close centers to the children.

They were told the center wasn’t to be played in (As an Assistant Director

after I observed this, I made sure that she knew that was not on option that

the children can play in any center that they chose.)

c. Improvements: Identify specific improvements, you, as the

administrator, would expect to see.

I would like to see a rotation of toys in the classroom, so that the children

could play with different toys instead of the same ones. Also as I pointed

out above is for the teachers not to close off any centers to the children. I

would also like to see some more 3D art with the children displayed.