A benefit of working two mornings a week is that I have the joy of visiting JK and K rooms, working with educators to create calm and creative classroom environments. As you may know this is something I love to do - work with educators to create spaces that they love to work in and that works for children. These spaces are created for children with intention and knowledge for the age and developmental levels.  I have made a small list of the elements that I have been using in classrooms: 1.     Reduce visual clutter and create space in the room for the eyes to rest. We know from research that the child's brain is calmed by restful and warm environments (as is mine). 2.     Think of the classroom as flexible play zones. If a zone is popular create duplicates of a zone like construction, sensory and art to encourage smaller play groups. Make sure that you have all of the needs: writing, math, story, games, construction, creativity, social.... 3.     Repl......