Kita crawling crate eV

Model

Additional family care is now an integral part of our society. The trend is such that both parents of a family must be employed or of course you want. Accordingly, additional family forms of care are socially necessary. The care in our nursery that takes reference to the changing living and working conditions and the roles of many parents. Parents, we offer the opportunity to pursue their professional activities with the knowledge that their child is during the time in the crib, not only in good hands, but there also supports according to his needs and inclinations and encouraged.

We live in a growing multicultural society. Therefore, intercultural competence of us as an important educational goal is seen for all children. The nursery is in our opinion, a place where children learn together, play, act, a place where children can exercise to strengthen awareness of their own identity in a multicultural context, and where they "practice" biculturalism and multiculturalism can live and. This' lives "requires active support from the teacher. So it is to perceive the variety of learning and development opportunities in a multicultural and multilingual group of children assembled and targeted to be used for the development of bicultural skills and cultural openness. Children need an environment that allows them a self-confident and self-evident when dealing with foreign cultures. Our nursery is open to children from different cultures and religions, our educational activities geared to the needs and opportunities offered by this diverse interaction.
The children enjoy the appreciation for their own habits and cultural forms, and can discuss this in everyday life, or play.

Carrier

The day care center "Crawling box" was until 01.01.2007 a private institution that exists since 1992. It was founded by Mrs. Lucresia Lipp and is headed since July of Heike and Uschi Lipp. In January 2007, the nursery in the non-profit association "Crawling crate eV" has been restructured.

1. Conditions

Location of institution

The day care center "Crawling box" is located in St.Arnual, a district of Saarbrücken. It is very accessible by public transport, a bus stop is nearby and there are sufficient parking spaces for parents who bring their child to the car there.

Spaces and group structure

In the nursery a total of 25 children are cared for, spread over half-day and full day care. The children's gender are heterogeneous in age between 1-3 years and the group.

The premises of the nursery are spread over 200 square feet of space. These include an entrance hall, exercise room, a games room and dining room with separate kitchen, another group room, a changing room with children's toilets.

The exercise room features a wall bars, gymnastic bench and gym mats, a Bällchenbad, a trampoline, giant blocks of plastic materials as well as numerous gymnastics.

We have divided different play areas, such as a cozy corner, a reading corner, a Bauteppich, play with dolls, kitchen corner and a creative field.

Due to the existing function rooms, the distribution of children in small groups makes sense.

The group composition is calculated depending on the age and maturity of the child as follows:

Tigerenten

The toddler group is made up of children 15 children. The group is mixed age, with the aim that the older children take care of younger children to learn and in return, the "little ones" of the "big boys".

The focus of funding sensory experiences, personality and experience are the first steps towards independence. The motor development of children will be targeted for support, the motion space provides optimal conditions for this purpose.

The teaching staff in this small group can respond individually to the children and encourage each child specifically.

Bears

This small group is also composed of children of mixed ages and sexes.

The children in that age usually have a high urge to move and explore their environment actively. In this context, the coarse-and fine motor skills are supported and encouraged playful.

Role playing will be interesting and we use our specially equipped for this purpose room with cozy corner with dolls and toy kitchen, puppet theater and chest lining. The design of children's play can be acted out on the Bauteppich.

Lion children

In this small group of children should be prepared for kindergarten. , Ie that the oldest children of the "Tiger Duck" and "Bears" by the hour from their actual groups are taken out and be promoted. Therefore focuses on the self and social behavior in the foreground. Promoting areas such as teaching colors and numbers, traffic education (short trips), toilet training and language development are the focus of the educational work.

The small groups should not be strictly separated from each other and mingle with each other, shared rituals and playing on the outside grounds are integrated in everyday life. The division of the small groups we find important, however, that the children find a place in a fixed group and feel at home in a protected, manageable and enjoy. Our geographical situation and the staffing make this group possible allocation.

Through projects and working groups of the different interests of the children are picked up. Our main focus of project work are:

• Multicultural Education
• Early Musical Education
• Movement sites
• RPG
• Natural and physical encounter
• Creative Design
• Speech Training

Outside area

The spacious outdoor area of ​​the nursery is well laid out with different flowers, shrubs and trees. There is a climbing frame with rope bridge and slide, three swings, a large sand pit and a seesaw and a wooden hut. The children can let off steam here as both explore the nature. We use the outdoor area for us every day and there are rarely "bad weather".

Opening times

The nursery is open daily from Monday to Friday from 07:30 to 17:30 clock.

The daycare center has flexible opening times, meaning that there are no prescribed fixed drop-off and pickup times.

The children with full-time course can always be brought and collected. The children who occupy the half-day place should, in the morning between 12:00 - 12:30 clock will be picked up and brought in the afternoon around 12:30 clock to 17:30 clock and be picked up.

The dates for holidays are announced in advance.

Prices

The service prices are now as follows:

Half day: 250 €

Full-day course: 300 €

The food allowance is 40 € per month and has been here with einberechnet.

The balance of the paper is organized in a health maintenance fee and a membership fee.

Admission criteria

In the nursery children are accepted from 12 months to 3 years.

The minimum contract period is 6 months. The inclusion of the child is with a membership in the association "Crawling crate eV" and is connected automatically at closing.

Familiarization

The inclusion of a child requires a planned approach, and many agreements

between parents and daycare center. Of the transition of the family in our care will be crucial if the child accustoms well. Only then can parents and educators to develop a trusting relationship. The recording should be designed so that all parties have time, adapt themselves to the current situation and gradually build up new relationships.

In this adaptation phase, we try a relationship with a caregiver

build up. Usually this is done in the presence of a parent in the group. The child receives through its security presence of the parent and the teacher may talk a lot about the habits and needs. For this phase, parents should allow plenty of time.

It is helpful if, in the first days of an ever-recurring and thus creates a familiar rhythm. The duration of visits of children is increased gradually during the acclimatization period.

Once the child knows better the new environment, is the parent of the group

first briefly, then leave for ever longer periods of time. The times with and without parents will be based on the reactions of the child. Good experiences do we have if the child attends the first time the group for a few hours. The stay should be made dependent on the behavior of the child.

On the first day, children should bring the following things:

- Medical certificate

- Diapers

- Wet Wipes

- Spare clothes

- Personal items such as pacifier, security blanket, favorite stuffed animal

Diseases and drugs

For each child must be on 1 Day of admission, proof of a health examination carried out there. It must be pointed out that the

Child no infectious diseases are present.

Basically sick children in the nursery does not support claim. An information on the kindergarten that the child is sick should take place until 9.30 clock. To protect all children, parents are required, particularly for childhood diseases and infectious diseases of the child or family member, this immediately.

In the nursery, no drugs are administered, as this would interfere with the legal parental responsibility. Teaching staff can not accept this liability risk. These rules serve the health of families, children and staff.

Nutrition

We attach great importance to a balanced, child-friendly diet. For this reason, the food in the nursery is prepared by ourselves. We shall decide to yourself, "what's on your plate."

Our third goals

Trust and security

For children, the experience of trust and security is one of the most important

Conditions for their personality development. The small

People can develop trust with the help of a positive life attitude and emotional security. The child learns to turn to others with curiosity and thirst to explore the world and build confidence in their abilities.

On this secure base contacts are made to others and the child may open new areas of experience. This is the building of trust

main basis of the work in the nursery.

Personality development and social education

We have set ourselves the goal to help each child individually in his development. We want to encourage the child to develop a positive self-concept and to develop according to his needs. We focus on the development status of each child and take this into account in the individual development.

These include the attitude to accept any man in his individuality and differentness.

The group affiliation and contact with peers provides a training ground for social learning. The children learn to orient themselves to each other to enter into each other, to imitate or to enforce against other children and to resolve conflicts.

Creating learning stimuli and room to experiment

The space and materials offered in the nursery is designed so that each child

the best possible conditions for development are to be made available. We try the natural zest and curiosity of children to support and encourage. These range from homemade dough up to the

Rule board game to the shop.

Children are curious to know hungry and active. You conquer the world through active games. Through age-appropriate offerings, we create favorable conditions for development, create incentives and offer fields of experience. The choice of appropriate materials, structures and interaction time relations, we give opportunities to be active themselves, to experiment and share with each other. We accompany the child to monitor his activities and to stimulate further development steps. We want to create an atmosphere in which children feel comfortable and their respective level of development can be active.

We attach great importance to know the rhythm of the child and adjust prices accordingly. In addition to the incentives need to

Childhood, where they try out what they have learned and thus stability and

Security can win.

Promoting independence

"Explain to me, and I'll forget
Show me and I will remember.
Involve me, and I will understand "
R. Rabenstein

The child should develop its own environment. The child determines the content and pace of his actions, the child himself as a researcher.

We support the initiative and the need for autonomy of the children and accompany them in their play and their development. Spontaneous activity is a motivating and satisfying way of learning. Children learn important lessons from them, because they tap into the world from their perceptions. Children want to be independent, meaning that they themselves may want to run themselves can decide on or off, take themselves and their food, with whom or what they want to play.

Learning takes place through practical activity Following this principle, we support the independence of the individual needs of children and take seriously.

Encourage imagination and creativity

Children sit down fully and imaginatively deal with their environment. Creativity means to play, experiment, transform, destroy, and attempt

. err

To be creative means to seek various ways and to be convinced not so much on a single solution. We try to encourage children to discover their personal expression. The experience is more important than the result.

We offer children creative activities and provide basic materials available, which is regularly supplemented by selected materials.

Essential materials are sand and water, clay, paints, paper

and all natural materials like stones, sticks and leaves.

But the music it plays an important role, either as background music while painting, or a fantasy trip or making music in the singing circle.

Building a self-esteem and self-consciousness

In the foreground is for the child to discover himself to recognize and understand. One focus of the educational work is the process of ego-finding to support the child and to encourage the child's individuality, originality and creativity.

In terms of this understanding of holistic education of personality developed a basic positive self-esteem and self confidence.

This process of ego-identification takes place in their social environment. In the

Community life experiences with other children to know that we meet in the life

are dependent. In a positive attitude towards themselves and others

It is part of the society learns to express themselves confidently, may enter into bonds, experiencing conflicts and open to other cultures go.

Intercultural openness

Our society is multicultural. Intercultural learning means first learning about different cultures and religions, and then to incorporate this new element with its own in the culture. Children of different nationalities should learn to get closer and find their respective otherness as normality.

Many of the children in care have parents of foreign origin. This diversity is deliberately chosen by us. Intercultural learning as a guiding principle of our device is connected with the following subjects:

All children should be prepared to live in a diverse society composed. It follows that German children are recipients of such an approach.

The intercultural education is mainly characterized by two basic principles: the principle of equality and the principle of recognition. Although this means that people regardless of their origin, skin color, language or religious or cultural orientation must be treated equally. On the other hand are those of the individuals as valuable, because identity-relevant cultural forms and contents held to be recognized.

In intercultural education are the lives of all children and their parents or their families at the center of educational work. Every child should have the opportunity to be able to find in the rooms and in the offers again.

Promotion of language

One focus of our everyday teaching is the traditional language of the children. We attach great importance to the teaching staff speaks High German. Furthermore, we want the teachers do not take the "baby talk" to the children, but really audition.

For us, it is particularly important that we make a joyful speaking environment (eg, tell stories, storybook approach) and to encourage speaking. The promotion and practice of the language is done through finger plays, songs, rhymes, role play etc.

1. Forms of educational work

Among forms of educational work, we understand the methods to

implement the above-described development goals in practice. In the

following are the main methods by which we work, as shown.

Free play

The free games can be independent, self-directed activities of children.

The child is playing in his very own guided by the needs, is free

of manuals, directives and regulations of the staff.

Incidentally, this also includes the "do nothing" if the child has the desire to do so.

It is free to choose between the activities, materials, number of play partners,

Location and duration of his playing.

The guided game

In contrast to the free play, guided play are conscious and deliberate

Suggestions given by the teachers. The goal is always free to play so

support that enables the children further development progress

be. Thus, for example, compromise proposals tabled for problems

or encouraged any other game suggestions.

The goal-oriented supply

When targeted by educators are offering the materials, the location,

Time, duration, etc. set the rules. Here, the teacher builds on already

existing capabilities and skills of,

and the child in this way helps to further learning. The contents

Offer is based on the specified topic in the team. Under

Offers are targeted as the creative activities, finger plays, natural and physical encounters, etc.

These offers are in different group compositions

performed as:

a) single offering with a child

b) in the small group (2-6 children)

c) in the large group (more than 6 children)

The observation

As part of our duty of supervision the children will be constantly monitored

But here our focus is on risk situations.

Targeted observations to determine the level of development of the child

have as a basis, are targeted on the basis of an observation sheet or

free observations created. The results are then discussed by the team

and agreed to the measures adopted to support, etc..

Specific observations made by us, we ask parents to

a parent interview. We are also happy to no particular reasons

the parents in specific intervals, the development of their child in kindergarten

portray.

Rituals and fixed daily routine

Children need a solid routine and repetitive rituals in which they can orient themselves. This gives the children a sense of security and stability. They include fixed meal times, the morning singing circle or regular game offers.

5th Team

The teaching team consists of crawling box 4 full time employees, four part-time workers and a professional internship. The team is composed of a variety of professionals, all staff are qualified professionals (four teachers, two pediatric nurses, two nursery nurses, one social worker).

In collaboration with the respective colleges, we direct you to trainees who complete an educational training in an internship.

In terms of positive cooperation with our staff, we conduct regular team meetings.

6th Working with parents

The parents work for us is an essential part of the educational concept. Basis for a positive collaboration between parents and our institution's confidence in our actions is why we place great emphasis on the transparency of our work and an open and honest with each other. We maintain a close relationship with the parents and a solution-oriented dialogue. In addition to the daily feedback on the course of the day we are always ready for more intensive individual conversations. For a regular feedback from parents, we are grateful, because this is for us an instrument of quality assurance. For feedback and we are open.

A partnership ensures the satisfaction of our parents and allows for individual care.

Regular parent meetings give the opportunity to discuss current issues in more detail or to discuss ideas and suggestions for changes to the parents. In addition, here is a possibility that the parents can learn to know each other better and exchange.