A learning environment is a safe space for students of all age groups. A learning environment is a space to help kids learn and grow new sets of learning skills such as speech, physicality, and growth. 

 

I think how you can create a learning environment can be from home or a classroom. Of course when I say home I mean like an at home day care for early childhood or home school for older kids. For a classroom it can have a bunch of fun and positive decorations around the room to show that it’s a safe and fun learning environment. 

 

From my perspective I think that a learning environment is important because it can help children with social skills, cognitive thinking, and growth as I said before. From my experience from working at the ‘Y’ , kids in their classrooms are growing to learn new things everyday, they learn how to talk, they learn how to identify animals from a book, they learn that their environment is a safe place for them to make friends. 

I didn’t know if we were supposed to have pictures from our workplaces or have random pictures as examples so I found random pictures off of the internet. 

 

https://www.wgu.edu/blog/3-types-learning-environments2111.html

 

I’ve attached the url to help me answer this question here. But most of my answers are in my own words.

 

I also want to add a couple of things that I forgot to mention:
from the pages there’s a couple of quotes that caught my attention and want to share my thoughts.
“pleasant nap or quiet times meet children’s needs for rest”. At the Y we have mats for the kids to lay down on so they’re not laying down on the floor. We play lullaby songs to help them go to sleep. Also for certain kids we have to sit with them and rub their backs of rock them to help them go to sleep. Oh yeah and the mats have their name tags on them so the kids are not using different mats all the time for nap. This is important because kids need rest from so much play and other activities. having the mats named is also important because that way germs aren’t being passed to other kids.

“use a variety of strategies to transition from one activity to another”. At the Y, when I’m in the toddler room(s) and when the kids are eating either their lunch or snack we teach the kids sign language to tell them to eat or ask them if they’re all done. When we tell them to eat in sign language they’ll eat. If we ask them if they’re all done with their food they’ll either shake their heads yes or no. After that we have the kids come one at a time to wash their faces off because sometimes the kids can have food stuck to their face and we tell them to go to their mat after lunch and we tell them to go play after snack. This is important because it helps with kids understand sign language and develope cognitive skills.

“environments are home like” When I first started my job at the YMCA, I started to feel at home myself while I was in the room(s). They were all decorated with fun positive decorations. they have the names of the kids and when their birthdays are and there’s just a comfort to the rooms. It’s important that the kids feel comfortable in the classroom. We all want kids to feel safe around their environment other than their own home. So its kind of like a second home to them.