When I first enrolled Matthew into the Busy Bee childcare, I was really impressed with the set-up that the daycare center had. The building was a large old house that had been converted into a day care center. The first room was really a large mud room, filled with kids lockers and benches for the kids coats, hats and boots.
After the kids took off their outerwear, they would go into rooms that were age specific. There was a nursery for the children that were too young to crawl, another room for the toddlers, and several other rooms for the older children. There was even a room for a real kindergarten, taught by real certified teachers. Each room had a row of childrens lockers in it, each one labelled with the name of the individual child.
I think that the individually assigned lockers for kids helped to ensure that there was minimal spreading of germs, and minimal loss of clothing and toys. When Matthew switched from Busy Bee childcare to the after school childcare once he started first grade, the difference in organization was astonishing. There were no baskets or lockers for individual storage of any kind. There WAS, however, a large Lost and Found Box!