The Writing Center

The creative play area is a gathering of action figures, animals, and other items. Students can arrange and use these inside model settings like a house, school house, or barn and make up stories for the action figures to play out.    Many students use these toys alone, providing voices and sound effects for the action.  Others interact while role playing their small scenes, and collaborate on the story and dialogue.

Creative Play

The books in our classroom library are arranged so that the covers are facing out, making them easily recognized by and appealing to your child.  The books themselves are rotated periodically to maintain fresh appeal and to reflect current learning focus, seasons, holidays and classroom themes.  Some favorites, though, remain in their places of honor—usually haphazardly placed right near the front so they can be ready for yet another read-aloud. :)

Our Classroom Library

While photos of our restrooms may seem unusual, they are included because the potty is often an important place in a preschooler’s life.  They are frequently asked about it by the adults in their lives, and they need to be comfortable with the provided facilities.  Our classroom is fortunate to have two child-sized bathrooms, making it not only easy for little ones to maneuver, but also helping ensure a potty is available to your child even in cases of emergency. :)

Our Restrooms

Preschoolers’ first stop at the classroom is to stow belongings in their cubbies.  The hooks are the perfect height for backpacks and jackets and the two cubbies above can easily hold papers to go home and still leave room for a blanket and a special teddy for quiet time.

Putting away and  retrieving their own things help preschoolers feel responsible, and can also help provide a sense of security in knowing that their things are always right where they keep them. 

Our Cubbies

The writing center is a place where your child can communicate ideas using symbols, pictures, and letters.  Here is an area where your child can experiment with copying letters, invented spelling, and even book making.

With a variety of available materials, children are encouraged to explore, to try new things, and to focus more on the creativity and exploration than product.

Trinity Lutheran Preschool

These are some of the different areas of our preschool classroom.  The arrangement of our room is to allow for easy movement and transition, while allowing for defined centers and areas.  As much of the room as possible is child-sized and filled with visually pleasing colors and student art. 

A Peek Inside Our Classroom

The reading corner is a comfortable place where your children can relax and explore our classroom library.  This area provides opportunities for our class to share literature as a whole group, and also for your child to hold and read books on his or her own, to create original stories from the pictures inside books, and to connect printed words with information and stories in a pleasurable way.

The Reading Corner

The dramatic play area allows children the opportunity to interact socially with peers as well as to interpret the roles of the adults in his or her life through imitation.  As the year progresses, this area’s props and setting changes periodically to allow for new experiences.  Here, your child can learn about communication, negotiation, and problem solving while developing his or her personal activity preferences.

The Dramatic Play Area

The materials available in the sand and water table vary as the year progresses.  We begin by filling the table with paper, plastic, and fabric scraps so that students have the opportunity to practice cutting a variety of materials. The table will also be filled with seeds, pretend snow, gardening soil, and of course, sand.  Always present will be equipment for measuring, sifting, and funneling the materials—allowing your child tactile and experimental experience.

The Sand and Water Table

Our seat work and some of our art work is done at a pair of tables arranged so that students can gather around and the teacher has access from a central seat to easily interact with each of them. 

 

We also gather here to share snack time, so that we can say grace and enjoy our snacks together.

Our Table Seats