Introduction/specifics

This is what we stand for:

We see every child as an independent personality who curiously explores, discovers and understands their world.

One child is loud and raging, the other is calm and withdrawn; every child is different and yet they are all the same.

That is why it is our goal to support and accompany every child in their development with a lot of patience, appreciation, respect and empathy.

Group description:

We are a two-group kindergarten with one group of butterflies and one group of dragonflies.

Our groups can accommodate 20 children at a time.

The team:

We are 5 part-time specialists and changing interns, who complete part of their training with us.

Rooms

We have 2 cozy rooms in which your child can linger.

We also have a wonderful playground and a small intensive care room.

Our kindergarten has another special feature, we share our premises with the Waldorf Kindergarten Sonnenblume.

There are various areas that invite you to learn, discover, experience, try out, paint, do handicrafts and much more.

Outdoor Facilities

Our playground is very large and we have plenty of shade even in summer.

We enjoy it and that's why we like to go out often.

Our playground has a sandpit, a slide, two swings, a large climbing frame, a tunnel and plenty of space to run and play.

Daily Schedule

Our everyday kindergarten life:

The delivery time is from 7:30 a.m. to 9:00 a.m., after which the entrance door is locked.

During the delivery time, the children are in their respective group rooms until after the morning circle.

Our morning circle starts with a welcoming song, then we clap the names, count the children present and think together who is missing. Then the date, day of the week and season are named on our calendar with the children.

Finally, we discuss the daily routine together.

After the morning circle, the groups are opened and, in addition to the free game, there are group-wide offers.

The first pick-up time is at 12:00p.m.

You also can pick up your child from the kindergarten from 12:00 p.m. to 12:30 p.m. or from 1:30 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.

Between 12:30 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. there is a second snack break and the doors of the kindergarten are closed.

Our kindergarten children are divided into four different age groups; it is always the age groups that come to school together.

The youngest children are our lucky beetles, then come the fawns, the clever foxes and the bear children (preschoolers).

The following offers are carried out across groups:

Monday: bookworm (bear children)

Tuesday: Duck land (clever fox)

Wednesday: Preschool (bear children creative and snack day (all children

Thursday: bear offer

Friday: exercise (in the hall / in the forest / walk) (all children)

We orientate ourselves with our offers, among other things, to the church annual cycle and celebrate with the children festivals such as: Christmas, Easter, St. Martin, Nicholas and birthdays.

Food

Your child has two periods of time in which they can freely decide when they want to eat; 

once in the morning until 10:00 a.m. and the second vesper time is at 12:30 p.m.

Your child can drink from us, either tea or water.

Basics

Children are:

K - how creative                 G - how great

I - how individual                R - how considerate

N - as in curious                 A - as in need of support

D - how grateful                 S - how clever

E - for energetic,               H - for helpful

R - how calm                      U - how enterprising

G - how patient                 E - how conquering

A - how active                   P - how fantastic

R - how clever                   F - how friendly

T - for talented                 E - for selfish

E - how inventive              R - how full to the brim with many more properties ...

N - how natural

Employee

We are 5 part-time specialists and changing interns, who complete part of their training with us.

Head:                           Nicola Frohmüller

Educator:                    Selena Kolbeck

                                    Antje Graubitz,

                                    Viktoria Wolf-Strittmatter

                                    Ivy Abellanossa

other employees:       changing interns from different schools

Qualification

Situation approach of our kindergarten

Education:

Child-friendly living and learning; playing with head, heart and hand

- resource-oriented education

- learn in real life situations

- stimulating interior design

- provide required material

Lifeworld orientation:

- Take up the life situations of the children and parents

- close networking with the community

- to pick up on present situations

Participation: (participation, codetermination ...)

- Parents and educators as educational partners

- emancipation

- maturity

- self-employment

Equality and recognition of diversity:

- Integration / inclusion

- Mixed-age groups

- Gender-conscious upbringing

- intercultural education

Unity of content and form:

- Kita as a learning organization

- the educator as a stimulant, researcher, fellow learner, curious person, Politician)…

- open, continuous planning

The orientation plan of Baden-Württemberg

The orientation plan for education and upbringing serves us as an educational compass.

With its goals, assistance and guidelines, it gives us orientation and impulses for our daily work and for being careful with the children.

Additional Offerings

Weekly schedule:

Monday: bookworm

Tuesday: Duck Country

Wednesday:  Creative and Nuch Day

Thursday:  Bear offer

Friday: exercise (in the hall / in the forest / walk)

Our cross-group offers are:

- Bookworm (preschooler)

- Bear offers (preschoolers)

- duck land (clever fox)

- exercise (for all children)

- creative day (for all children)

- "Nunch Day" (for all children)

- Preschool with a teacher from the Albbruck primary school (preschooler)

Our kindergarten children are divided into four different age groups; it is always the age groups that come to school together.

The youngest children are our lucky beetles, then come the fawns, the clever foxes and the bear children (preschoolers).

Quality Assurance

By creating our concept, we entered a development process that cannot be over.

We keep rethinking the circumstances and have visions of how, for example, our rooms can be redesigned.

That is why our work on the concept is never finished.

It will keep us busy.

In this written elaboration, we have put together essential information, goals, content and working methods to create a concept in order to give an insight into our everyday activities and actions. We are aware that this concept requires regular review, addition and change. This gives us the chance to respond to the child's world and to be able to offer an up-to-date educational concept.

We all regularly take part in further training courses in order to meet the growing demands in our profession and in relation to the children.

Cooperations

For us, the cooperation with parents, the school and other authorities is very important.

It is the basis of good children's development.

Only if everyone accompanies the children on their way together, helps and supports them, can we create a good basis for their future.

Teamwork with school

Our kindergarten works with various institutions.

These are:

Doctors, advice centers, occupational therapists, technical schools, early intervention centers, health authorities, integration officers, youth welfare offices, child protection officers, churches, speech therapists, music schools and other schools.

Teamwork with parents

Parental work and educational partnership:

When we talk about parental work, we must always start from the basic idea that education in kindergarten complements and supports the upbringing of the child in the family.

Therefore, an intensive and trusting cooperation between parents, legal guardians and educators is very important and essential.

Our common educational work should be based on mutual trust, tolerance and understanding and a certain amount of openness.

For many activities (summer party, St. Martin's parade, Christmas market, flea market ...) in kindergarten, we need the parents' commitment.

Our information is passed on to the legal guardians in the form of letters from parents, parents' evenings, development talks, as well as in discussions when bringing and picking up the children.

We have a large information wall in the hallway, on which various notices from us, the parents' council and also from the parents are possible.

At the entrance to the butterfly group and the dragonfly group, there is a pin board on the left-hand side with the most important and latest information.

In the entrance area there is also a post stand for letters from parents.

There is also the possibility of making an appointment for a conversation with the management or the educators at any time.

Specifics

Our kindergarten has another special feature;

Since January 2011 we have been sharing the playground and an additional room for our group-wide activities with the Waldorf Kindergarten Sonnenblume.

Common protection concept of the kindergarten sunflower and the kindergarten grasshopper

We, the employees of both kindergartens, have been in conversation for more than 10 years.

Together we discuss and decide on the use of the space available to us.

Everything happens in consultation, consideration, cooperation and assistance with and with one another.

Projects

We orientate ourselves with our offers, among other things, to the church annual cycle and celebrate with the children festivals such as: Christmas, Easter, St. Martin, Nicholas and birthdays.

Overview

The first operating permit for the Grashüpfer kindergarten was granted in November 1983 and the building was converted from the former school and town hall into a kindergarten.

Our facility is a regular kindergarten with mixed-age groups (3-6 years) and extended opening hours.

Description and Stations

Schachen has been part of the Albbruck community since January 1, 1973. 

Schachen is a tranquil village with 757 inhabitants (Dec2023).

It is very rural and is surrounded by forest and nature.

The kindergarten is located in the center of the village and is easy to reach for all children.

There is a large parking lot in front of the kindergarten with containers for used glass and clothes.

Next to our playground is the public playground, which is often visited.

There are no longer any shops in Schachen, but the nearest retail outlet is five minutes away by car.

In Schachen there are several farms, two carpenters and two restaurants, as well as the therapy center "Christiani".

There is a multi-purpose hall, a chapel, a sports field and an autocross track in the village.

There are several clubs that enrich village life, such as the voluntary fire brigade, the Schachen gymnastics club and the Schachen autocross team.

The traffic situation in Schachen is very quiet, there is a main thoroughfare and several side streets.

There are no crosswalks and no traffic lights in the village.