This paper investigates the characteristics of children's selecting of staying places at a nursery home. The aims of this paper are 1) by comparing nursery children's staying places on different survey days and in different survey years according to their age stages, to analyze the repetitiveness of their selection of staying places, 2) thus, to consider the process of forming their preferences for places that is one of the factors of selecting staying places. The examination was conducted by the recording of the staying places of all the children of a class every 10 minutes class by class, and by the whole day tracking surveys of a few children of each class. This paper gained the following knowledge: 1) The places that are often selected by children are deferent for each class, and a certain measure of affinities of selection in each class are observed through the survey regardless of survey day or year. 2) The 3-year-olders' selection of the same staying places in different years and on different days is less repetitive than that of 0 and 5-year-olders'. Hence, it can be said that 3-year-olders are in the process of forming their preferences for places. 3) In both of different years and days, the repetitiveness of children's selection of the same staying places indoors is stronger than outdoors. Therefore, it can be said that the repetitiveness of children's selection of the same staying places is relatively strong at a restrictive area at every age stage.
