Rooms
When you enter our kindergarten, you will first come to our vestibule.
Here you will find our team wall where you can see who works where. You can also see current information and events in the area.
Then you come to our hall, which is used as an exercise room for all children. The groups share the use of the hall on a weekly basis. The crèche uses the hall on Wednesdays to do gymnastics with the older crèche children.
During parties or special activities, we meet with all the children in the hall to spend time together.
The hall also contains the checkroom where the children from both groups find a hook and a compartment for their belongings. Each hook is personalized with pictures and the child's name.
From the hall, we go into our two group rooms:
In the rainbow group there is a main room and a side room.In the main room you will find tables for playing and doing puzzles, a doll's corner, a second level and a small construction corner. In the side room there is a larger building corner, a painting table and a reading corner.
The sunshine group also has a main room and a side room. In the main room there are also tables for playing, kneading and doing puzzles. In the side room, the children will find a doll's corner and a large painting area.
You can also access our Yellow Salon from the hall. This is a small room with a seating area where the library and music cabinet are located. This is also where language support and small group activities take place.
From the hall, you can access our large washroom with several washbasins and toilets, a shower and a changing table.
There is also an extra toilet for adults. As well as a cleaning room.
Our kitchen is also located in the hall area. This consists of an adult and a children's area, where the children can work at child height.
Of course, we also have cellar rooms where we can store various materials or toys to exchange. We also have an outside cellar where each group can store their materials.
Our crèche is located on the upper floor of our kindergarten.
The children have a separate checkroom here, which is personalized with pictures and names of the children, just like the kindergarten children.
The group room consists of a separate section for role-play, building blocks and vehicles, a slide, a play kitchen and a reading corner. In the remaining separate room is our kitchen, where the children can have breakfast, but also where specific activities can be carried out.
A slide leads to the activity room, which has space for romping, jumping and building with large foam blocks.
From here, we continue into the bathroom, with a changing table, a large washbasin (trough) and a toddler toilet.
Next door is our bedroom with beds for the children to sleep in.
The crèche can either go into the garden of the kindergarten or use the terrace adjoining the group room.
There is also an office on the upper floor.
This is where the management has their workplace to carry out all management functions, as well as the nursery teachers, who can spend their preparation time here or spend their break away from the children, and the room can also be used for parent meetings and the weekly team meeting.
This area is also equipped with a bathroom with WC and a washing machine and dryer.
We pay particular attention to the design of all these rooms and it is important to us that the rooms are always attractive and that the children and adults feel comfortable.
The rooms are usually decorated on a rotating basis to match the season or theme. The children often design the decorations themselves. This means they can look at them again and again and show their parents what they have made, but our rooms are also often converted. This is done according to different criteria:
* Do the children need a new play area?
* What interests the children?
* Which materials or toys can we use to further promote their development?
* Do they need more space or a different place to play with a particular material?
* Which material suits the theme?
* Which toys or which location of a play area is important for our current age group mix? If there are several smaller children, for example, they need to be able to get close to the adult.
It is also important to us, e.g. to promote independence, that the play materials are easily accessible and can be picked up and put away by the children themselves.
We also have certain rules: For example, we regulate how many children are allowed to play in the doll's corner, hall, construction corner etc. so that play is possible there at all and the children can develop. We also repeatedly point out that they should handle the toys and room equipment with care.
Our rooms are also designed to be functional, i.e. we try not to place a book corner next to a movement room, as otherwise the necessary peace and quiet and the opportunity to withdraw is no longer available.
Noise insulation is also a good way of controlling the volume that several children simply create. A curtain or carpet that also makes an area cozy immediately makes the noise more pleasant.
