Share your life with children
Choose your color curriculum
Introduce your staff to families and visitors

Give children opportunities to draw what they've created
Help children focus when offering open-ended materials
Keep families and children closely connected to each other

Help families feel at home in your program
Create meaningful communications with families
Explore how young children understand the Martin Luther King holiday

Consider aesthetics when you set out materials for children
Offer materials in new places in your room
Provoke teachers to consider new curriculum possibilities

Offer collaborative discussion of observations for staff development
Provide platforms at different levels in the environment
Help children see themselves as artists

Understand how lighting is a powerful influence on behavior
Help children stay connected to their families
Use documentation with children as a reference point for learning

Provide for social experiences in your play yard
Give children experiences to understand the function of print and literacy
Strengthen infant bonding with you along with their attachment to their family

Connect infants and toddlers to their families
Encourage children to be powerful and inventive
Offer teachers and providers experiences with art tools

Create workspaces for teachers and parents
Make room for children to be active and powerful in their bodies
Offer teachers experiences with aesthetically pleasing environments

Teach staff as you want them to teach children
Give children multiple opportunities to explore literacy codes
Make the playground part of your environment planning

Create opportunities for staff to explore art materials
Think of bathrooms as part of your learning environment
Add mirrors to a variety of places in your environment

Fall 2002 and Winter 2003

Create inviting seasonal displays
Create ways for infants to relate to the natural world
Help teachers develop bio board displays

Find materials outside of early childhood catalogues
Offer children and yourself experiences with the world of artists
Feature the process, as well as the product, in art displays

Environments with comfort for the adults and children
Improving materials to reflect cultural diversity
Put natural materials on playgrounds

Creating family friendly environments
Using mirrors throughout your room
Seeking out alternative furniture suppliers

Fall 2001

Creating family friendly environments
Creating invitations for learning
Using props to explore ideas