My day care story books that are not in the theme boxes. They are in those stand up dividers and sorted by subject. The yellow tags on the outside of the box tells me what is in that box. You don't see it very well, but to the left is a filing cabinet. I use that filing cabinet to store my "small theme" material or material that I'm building them information on, until I get enough to fill a theme box. On top of the book case is a divider they use in offices to sort mail and things like that. The next picture is of my book case with the resource books. Lots of room to grow here!! LOL Camping Bulletin Board Camping Set up Calendar Board Character Education Board Colors Board Display Board 1 Display Board 2 Concepts Board Parent Board & Child's Hooks Home Center Board Manners Board Block Construction Center Weather Board Seasons Board Shapes Board Writing Center Group Table and my desk area 1 Manipulatives Center and Sand/Water Table Room View Another Room View Reading Center Housekeeping Center View Housekeeping Center View 2 Gross Motor Center I have one large table in my playroom. It's right off my desk so that I can use it for myself for sorting and working when I need the extra space, and the children use it for art time, manipulatives and what ever needs doing. This is the board with our calendar and weather bear. This is my circle time center. The children are gathered in their chairs and in a semi-circle. Construction center: I also have large containers of Lego, duplo and mega blocks as well as the waffle blocks, the cardboard blocks, and white Styrofoam cubes. Construction center: It has all the tools in the tools area. It's always a popular center. I have a fairly large space, but I still like to make things as multi-functional as I can. I have the front of my desk at an angle in my room, so that I can use the front part for a center. I have covered the front of my desk in two yards of felt and the children use it as their felt board for self-directed activities. I have a fairly large room, so I have a climber inside and boats and such. This saves the sanity some cold winter days. I have my reading and listening center inside my tent. It's used lots and the kids love it. In this picture the kids are using the top of the sand and water table for the writing center, using the magna doodles, but most of the time they use the big multi-purpose table. Another part of my writing center is the magnetic "gate". As you can see I have a gate separating the two different parts of my room, and one side of the gate is painted with magnetic paint and the children use the foam letters backed with magnets to spell words... although sometimes they just play with the letters too . One center is of my alphabet clothesline. The kids love this one. They learn to recognize their alphabet and also use fine motor control doing it. The second center picture one is of my children playing in the sand and water table. I rarely use this table for sand or water, I prefer to use things that are less messym such as cutting shredded paper with scissors. Again, another form of fine motor control activity. Storage Area Storage Area 2 Storage Area 3 I always do a bulletin board for each unit that I do as well, here is my rainforest board. More of the rainforest room decorating. This is a picture of the song and pattern pieces I sent today. My kids loved this and played it over and over. What I did was I gave each child pattern pieces and when we sang the song, they placed the pattern on the felt board. After the first couple of times, they would take this out and do it all on their own. The Great Kapoke Tree A second display area I have a number of doors in my room and one I always use for a word wall. For the rainforest unit I used flash cards with the pictures on them . This picture is of our "vines" for the Rainforest unit. The kids "art work" bulletin board for the rainforest unit. What my dd referred to as my "grandmother willow" trees. More of my rainforest "trees". Outside Play Area Pictures Outside Play Area Pictures 2 Outside Play Area Pictures 4 Outside Play Area Pictures 3