Naps in kindergartens are a big problem – they take up a lot of space and a lot of work.
Traditional kindergartens often adopt a "three-stage" layout: 50 to 60 m2 of the same structure of the activity room and bedroom on the left and right sides, and 10 to 15 m2 of toilet in the middle.
Such a layout wastes space, affects the layout, and the workload of teachers is large.
Therefore, most of today's kindergartens pursue another kind of "sleep-teaching integration": the activity room and the sleeping room share a room of 60 to 80m2, and the sleeping room no longer occupies a separate room.
This will save about 30% of the space;
At the same time, the activity room area is large, and the regional layout is more convenient.
The activity room and the sleeping room share a room and usually have two ways of handling it:
One is to use a movable bed or a closet bed.
In this way, teachers have a large workload of moving beds every day, and it is not convenient for the creation of an educational environment.
The other is to do the attic.
In the classroom directly do the attic, the classroom environment is cleaner, reducing the workload of teachers, and it is also convenient to sort out the teaching environment when the teacher is on duty at noon.
More and more kindergartens are using this method.
Points to do the attic:
1. Coordination of the height of the attic
The purpose of making a loft is to save space, so the attic should be able to be used effectively, otherwise it will lose the meaning of doing the attic. To this end, the height under the attic must be more than 2m, otherwise it will be very depressing visually, and the utilization value will be greatly reduced.
Because the above is only sleeping at noon, it is guaranteed that the toddler does not meet, and the height reaches about 1.3m; The middle graticule steel plus paving, thickness of about 20cm, the following is best in 2.5 ~ 3m or so. Therefore, it is usually suitable for the attic when the floor reaches a height of about 4m (the optimal height is 4.5m).
2. Stair problems in the upper and lower attics
It is recommended to use a collapsible and retractable staircase - usually put it away, close the cover, and you can't see the stairs.
3. Ventilation problems
In addition to natural ventilation, a shaking head wall fan can be used. When the indoor temperature is not very high, it is not necessary to turn on the air conditioner in the whole room, which is safe and energy-saving.
4. The location of the attic
Because the attic occupies space after all, especially the room with a height of less than 4m, the attic is still easy to make the space appear cramped. To this end, it is necessary to consider cleverly "hiding" the attic, so that people can see at a glance, do not realize the existence of the attic, it will appear that the field of view is very wide.
You can choose to place the attic in the opposite direction above the entrance - the entrance door is very open, and it is difficult to think that the attic is overhead.
Therefore, correspondingly, the middle position of the attic should not be struted as much as possible, but make full use of the beam and hang the attic above the girder.
Or layout in the bathroom, cloakroom above.
5. The size of the loft
In order to solve the problem of all young children going up to sleep, the attic needs to be made into two rows of beds, with a walkway in the middle, a total of 3m wide; According to the class of 32 people (16 people in a single row) * 0.5m = 8m per person, usually in the classroom wall to make a bunk can be solved.
If you have more children, you can add a few movable beds to sleep underneath, and you don't have to stick to them all.
Sleeping is a form of rest and is the best way to eliminate exhaustion. Especially for young children, developing good sleeping habits is one of the necessary conditions for promoting the physical and mental health of young children. Also, the younger the toddler, the more time they need to sleep. Children aged 3 to 6 years usually need 11 to 12 hours to sleep, of which naps are 2 to 2.5 hours. To ensure adequate sleep for young children, kindergartens must provide a quiet and comfortable sleeping space for each child.
General principles of bedroom design
1. Make sure that each child has a bed. Sleeping in a separate bed not only ensures that the child sleeps comfortably, but also provides the necessary conditions for the child to develop the good habit of normal blinking behavior.
2, the bedroom to ensure good ventilation conditions, the position of the condition is best to face the south, the position of the unconditional full-day kindergarten bedroom can also face the north. However, the location of the boarding nursery bedroom should be facing south to ensure that there is ultraviolet light to disinfect the indoor air.
3. The bed placement should be in line with the necessary area required for sleeping behavior, but the bedroom of the full-day kindergarten should be as compact as possible due to the low power used.
4. The bedrooms of each class of the full-day kindergarten should be adjacent to the activity room of the class. The bedrooms of each class of the boarding children's kindergarten should be centrally arranged to facilitate centralized management at night.
5. Each class bedroom should have a storage space for each child's clothes. Boarding kindergartens should also have small bathrooms in each bedroom.
6. Each bedroom should have space and facilities for drying small items of young children.