OUR CLASSROOMS

Our kindergarten's spacious, bright, and airy classrooms are specially designed with children in mind.

At MeşePalamudu Children's House, classes are organized by age group, featuring a flexible layout that can be easily reshaped to accommodate the evolving characteristics and curiosities of each developmental stage.

Classrooms are purposefully arranged to allow children to work individually or collaboratively in groups. This layout is structured so that the space itself acts as a facilitator for learning, presenting a noticeable departure from the classical, rigid kindergarten model. Even for our youngest age groups, the classroom is divided into child-scaled micro-spaces, empowering the child to interact with their environment directly and independently. We use low partitions that allow teachers to maintain eye-level supervision across the room while simultaneously enabling the children to break off into intimate small groups. Within these thoughtfully curated environments, tailored to their specific interests, children frequently conduct experiments and engage in deep play in clusters of 3 to 4 peers.

This photo shows the block corner of the 4-year-old group. The children have been working on a train city design with blocks that started and then added materials tape, paper, cardboard, etc. to support their searches for about 3 months. The block corner is not demolished or collected by an adult during this search and trial period and this corner of the class turns into a real construction process like during the curiosity and search of the children.

Another corner in the classroom is the LIGHT SEARCHES area, inspired by the 'Raggi e Tracce' (Rays and Tracks) Atelier exhibition from the Reggio Emilia Approach. It features adaptable technical devices. Light, shadow, and reflection create a very effective play and learning environment by themselves. Sometimes it is prepared technically for the children's curiosity about a topic, and other times to provoke the learning process by the teachers.

    • Projection Device

    There is a projection device in every classroom. How many different ways do you think a projection device can be used? One day, we used it to invite a lion into the classroom. The photo is from the moment when two children built a nest for the lion with blocks in front of this image. As a result of about 2 hours of effort, they created a construction with shadows by balancing blocks and giving each other technical tactics. Technology sometimes becomes a teacher by simulating or allowing direct learning from the device itself. It is a frequently used structured environment; for example, we enlarge a photo of a dinosaur skeleton to life-size to support the development of their drawing skills.

    • Overhead Projector

    An overhead projector, like an outdated and discarded technology device, works like a magic machine for early childhood. Children experience light and material relationship on this device in such a fun way on their own that we are left with adding various materials and observing and watching their learning. Transparent objects grow on the wall with their dark shadows that are not transparent in color. When they move their hands to the right, the reflection of the object moves to the left.

    • Light Table

    Light table is an active technical corner for studies such as sensory, color, drawing language development.