DISTRIBUTION, AND GROUP AND AREA SIZE CHANGES, OF CHILDREN'S ACTIVITIES IN INTEGRATED FACILITIES WITHIN FUNCTIONS OF NURSERY SCHOOL AND DAY NURSERY

This paper's aim is to grasp implications to situate play areas in nursery school and day nursery. After observational investigation on basic distribution of children thorough a day, the following points emerged: 1) Class activities are distributed in the open area mainly in the middle of the room; 2) Long term daily life routines tended to subjugate the short term ones as a distribution tendency; 3) Each age group showed different tendency in the distribution of free activities. As focusing on how children's activities expanded, the size changing behaviors were categorized with the changeability of area size and group size.