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Arranging Kindergarten Classrooms

Helping kindergarten teachers achieve working in aesthetically pleasing and pedagogically correct kindergarten rooms

Tamara Tandara Perényi

KINDERGARTEN TEACHER &
TRUE TOYS CREATOR

In most kindergartens, “us” teachers will struggle with the physical environment of a setting at a certain point. An excess of commercial toys, insufficient storage space, cluttered appearance and unappealing room, to name a few – all can lead to weakening teaching impact, feelings of overwhelm and dishearten.

Years of teamwork with exceptional colleagues across multiple and diverse kindergarten spaces revealed and highlighted a critical oversight: the gradual loss of visual sensitivity to the overall aesthetics and functionality of a classroom, harming both our students and ourselves.

To avoid this, I created a book of guidelines to assist all teachers, regardless of experience, in rearranging and organizing their kindergarten rooms thus ensuring the space supports children’s learning, enhances kindergarten teaching and appeals to the human eye. 

Project Work

I began tailoring toys & tools for children since I started to work as a kindergarten teacher. This is how TRUE TOYS came to be. In the recent years, my focus shifted towards the space - the place of where we keep the toys and its significant role in kindergarten teaching and our everyday life.
Toys is what kindergarten teachers teach with, intentionally or not, daily and mostly, assisted by our silent colleague - the physical environment, by now well known as "The Third Educator" in words of Loris Malaguzzi.

Build your teaching confidence with knowing toys and understanding space

Toys and kindergarten space are my niche. I can show you how to turn your kindergarten classroom into both equally aesthetically and pedagogically appealing environment by rearranging it. 

I believe, the more one delves into their interests, irrespective of others’ opinions, their confidence builds up steadily and they make their expertise grow irreversibly.  

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