| Jellybean Room |
| 3 and 4 year olds |
| The Jellybean Room is for our potty trained children older than two years old. The children in this room learn a lot by interaction with each other. When they were younger they played individually in "solitary play." When they were in the Nemo Room they learned to play and work side by side using "parallel play." Now they are learning a whole new way to interact with the other children in the class: Associative Play. In this stage of their development, three and four year old children begin playing together but it is a loosely organized fashion. The more mature child soon emerges as the leader or organizer in this stage of play. They see themselves as capable and able to tell others what to do. As you can imagine this can cause a lot of commotion but it is a part of the natural process of learning and growing up. We spend a lot of time making sure all of the children in the Jellybean Class learn to play and interaction with one another in a positive manner. Along the way we implement our thematic units so that while they are growing socially and emotionally they are also growing academically. |
| The children picked the Jellybean Room because, they like Jellybeans. They are all different colors. They all have to be together in the bag and classroom. Jellybeans get along even though they are all different. Just like our kids! Pretty cool! |
| Schedule |