Your Best Room Arrangement Ever

1. Get everything out of your room you don’t absolutely have to have,

and thoroughly clean everything that is left

2. Choose the best location for circle time and set up your circle time wall

3. Arrange all of your furniture and storage units to create areas

with clear boundaries, and no open runways: avoid placing

all the furniture against the walls, consider all safety issues

4. Decide which storage units to use for each learning center:

group noisy and quiet centers together, place messy centers on tile and

near water, place science and library near windows if possible, place

construction out of walkways, place art, playdough, writing, listening and

puzzles near or with a table

5. Separate all of the toys into learning centers: math, language, library,

puppets, puzzles, playdough, sensory, dramatic play, dress up, writing,

art, gross motor, music, science, construction, listening

6. Organize each group into a storage unit, using coordinated containers

7. Make 2 labels for every single item, with both the word and a picture:

draw it, cut it out of a catalogue or use a digital camera

8. Label each container and the place it should be stored

9. Decorate the backs of shelves and lower walls with pictures related to

the learning center

10. Make theme related bulletin boards near the center, with theme related

border and headings