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Appendix 4A
Basic furniture and equipment required
to be provided by kindergartens
Tables and chairs as required (kindergartens which have desks are required to replace them with tables when the desks wear out).
Average height of desk Average height of seat Average depth of seat
Suggested Dimensions
Age group 3-4 Age group 4-6
20" 9"
21"
10"
101⁄2"
10%1⁄2"
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Blackboard with matt surface.
3.
Low shelves and storage cupboards/units.
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6.
Display boards such as tack board, magnet board, felt board.
One piano or any other musical instruments which can be used in musical activities such as cassette recorders, organs, and percussion instruments.
Provisions for play:
a.
b.
C.
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Equipment for physical play such as slides, see-saws,
balancing beams, climbing frames, tricycles, rocking- horses/boats, collapsible tunnels.
Materials for constructional play such as blocks, bricks, coloured beads, straw.
Play materials which provide experience for the learning of basic skills in pre-reading and Maths such as jig-saw puzzles, dominos, matching sets, peg-boards, lottos, counters, counting toys and picture cards.
Materials for imaginative play such as tea-sets, cooking-sets, dolls and clothes, post-office counters, shop-counters, 'doctor and nurses' kits, puppets, toy-cars.
Materials for sand and water play.
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