Introduction/specifics
Welcome to the day care center Buntstift!
KiTa Buntstift is a municipal facility that can care for up to 80 children. The day care center has three groups for children from the 9th week until their 3rd birthday and two groups for children from the age of 3 until they start school.
Basis of our educational work
The orientation plan for education and upbringing in Baden-Württemberg kindergartens provides the basis for our educational work. It emphasizes the child's perspective and starts from the children's motivations. Senses; Body; Language; Thinking; Feeling & Compassion; Sense, Values & Religion are the names of the six fields of education and development that guide the children's personality development.
In our daily work, we want to accompany the children's educational processes individually and sensitively from the first day of kindergarten. It is important to us to awaken the children's interest and to "make them strong" through experiences of ability. Within the framework of our partially open work, we offer the children holistic and developmentally appropriate support. In the individual groups, we work in a participatory and situation-oriented manner.
"Learning with head, heart and hand"
(Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi)
Stimulating environment, impulses & offers
Our pedagogical activities are reflected on the one hand in the design of a stimulating environment with incentives for independent play, and on the other hand in the arrangement of educational offers.
The children are assigned to a fixed home group. In addition to the security of a manageable group, the children are given the freedom to choose play partners and activities outside the group: There are times when the children move within their group, play there and experience rituals. In addition, there are so-called open times in which the children can also be in the hallway, in the movement room or in another group.
In addition to the activities in the home groups, there are educational activities across groups. These include, for example, the construction trailer, the singing circles, "Get out of the house" or the meetings of the future school starters.
Observation & Documentation
Observation is one of our most important tools to effectively support children in their educational processes. Therefore, we work with the method "learning stories". It helps us to find out about each child's strengths and interests and to record the learning steps in the process.
For each child we create a "children's book" in which pictures, drawings, photos and other works are collected. The following areas are important to us in the portfolio: This is who I am; My family and friends; What I like to do or what I can already do; Special events in the kindergarten years and learning stories.
Educational partnership with parents
Close cooperation with parents for the benefit of the children is a prerequisite for our educational work. In addition to an intensive admission/familiarization meeting, door-to-door meetings, parent events, etc., a parent meeting is held at least once a year. The interview serves to share developmental/learning processes and emphasizes progress since the last interview.
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