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TOPIC 2 DIMENSIONS OF YOUNG CHILDREN’S SETTING 
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• Safety features of early childhood environments should have emergency exits, list of emergency contact numbers on hand, fire extinguisher, separate cooking area, safe electrical outlets and cords, sufficient staff and fully fenced outdoor areas.
• Children learn best by exploring and experimenting with their environment. They learn through hands-on activities which involve a lot of play. Thus learning or play corner are a vital part of early childhood settings. This place should provide children with opportunities to enhance their skills and knowledge as well as develop their potential.
• A good early childhood setting provides a variety of activities that will help children to develop in all aspects, and includes manipulative and dramatic areas, music and movements area, and science and art and craft corners.
• Playhouse, trees, balancing beam, plant garden, water features and sand play can be used in outdoor areas in an early childhood setting to provide greater amounts of physical activity in children.
Child-centred setting Concrete experience Creative play Domain
Dramatic play Emergent literacy Environmental
Gross motor skills area Locomotor
Malleable materials Manipulative corner Nonlocomotor Physical play
Softness environment
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