Introduction

On May 14, 1994, the municipal kindergarten Taläcker in Leonardo-da-Vinci-Straße was inaugurated as the first public building in the area.

The kindergarten is located centrally in the residential district of Taläcker. In the immediate vicinity, there are several schools and public buildings (Taläcker Primary School, Anne-Sophie Free School, Geschwister-Scholl School, Kindergarten Taläcker 2, Taläcker multipurpose hall, youth clubhouse, Protestant parish hall, community center, cable car, and more).

We are a three-group facility with a total of 72 places. Children from the age of two until school entry are cared for here. In Groups 1 and 2, the children are between three and six years old. Group 3 is a mixed-age group with children between two and four years old.

Rooms

Our facility consists of three group rooms, each with adjoining side rooms, a spacious hallway area, and a gym room.

The group rooms are equipped with age-appropriate and regularly changing play materials.

In the Blue Group, a Snoezelen room is currently being developed; in the Yellow Group, there is an experiment room; and in the Red Group, a large play corner with dolls. The integrated kitchenette in this room also provides space for cooking activities.

The gym room and the hallway can be used by the children during free play time – for example, to let off steam or through guided activities that promote movement.

The hallway also includes a large reading corner for relaxing, a parents’ corner, and a preschool corner.

Outdoor Facilities

In the large garden there is a swing, a climbing frame with a slide, and a sandbox. The spacious lawn area with hills and bushes offers many opportunities for climbing and hiding.

The paved area invites the children to take a ride with our vehicles.

On a regular basis, we plant different kinds of fruits and vegetables together with the children in our three raised beds. After the harvest, we prepare and eat them together.

In the small garden there is a nest swing, a balancing beam, and a small slide.

Our gardens are used in all weathers. Small activities and impulses are offered by the educational staff.

Daily Schedule

If you arrive at 7:30 a.m., you go to the Blue Group for early care. At 8:00 a.m., you then switch to your own group.

Arrival time with your parents is until 8:50 a.m. At 9:00 a.m., we close the door and all groups begin their morning circles.

You can have breakfast between 7:30 and 8:45 a.m. If you are a late sleeper, please make sure to have breakfast before coming to kindergarten.

From about 9:15 to 9:45 a.m., we are in the morning circle. After that, our activities begin: free play, preschool programs, language activities, garden time, and much more.

Around 12:15 p.m., we have lunch together.

From 1:00 p.m. onwards, you can be picked up again. Parents have time until 2:00 p.m.

Food

The children bring their own meals from home. A balanced diet is very important to us, even for the food they bring along. Therefore, we place value on the children having, for example, a sandwich or bread roll, fruit, vegetables, nuts, etc. Children are not allowed to bring sweets, pudding, yogurt, waffles, or similar items, nor sweet spreads such as jam, honey, or Nutella.

During the daily routine, the children eat twice in the facility. The time for the first meal is chosen freely and individually by the children (between 7:30 a.m. and 8:45 a.m.). The second meal takes place around 12:15 p.m.

Unsweetened tea and water are available to the children every day.

At regular intervals, the children cook and bake together with the educational staff. Each group has one cooking and baking day per week.

In this project, the seasonal selection of fruit and vegetables and a healthy, balanced variety of foods are especially important to us. For the children, the focus is on helping with the preparation and cooking of meals.

Additional Offerings

•  Kinderbibelwoche
•  Zahngesundheit
•  Musikschule im Kindergarten
•  Gewaltprävention "Jedermann e.V."
•  Fachelternabende zu verschiedenen Themen

Cooperations

Our facility works with a wide range of cooperation partners. We collaborate with the following partners:

• Pediatricians

• Social Pediatric Centers (SPZ) in Würzburg and Schwäbisch Hall

• IFF in Künzelsau

• Speech therapists and occupational therapists

• Primary schools (close cooperation with Taläcker Primary School)

• Geschwister-Scholl School and Ms. Probst-Leidig

• Taläcker district community

• AOK health insurance

• Other kindergartens

• NEUMAYER Foundation

• Children’s Sports Foundation Baden-Württemberg

• Dental Health Service Hohenlohe

• Police

Basics

In unserer alltäglichen pädagogischen Arbeit bringen die Kinder zum Einen ihre Interessen und Themen in Kinderkonferenzen ein. Daraus entstehen Projektthemen, die in offenen Einheiten von den pädagogischen Fachkräften begleitet werden. Die Kinder entscheiden sich selbstständig für eines der Projektthemen.

Zum Anderen können aus Alltagssituationen und Beobachtungen des pädagogischen Fachpersonals die Interessen der Kinder in Projekten aufgegriffen werden.

Die zentralen Zielsetzungen dieser pädagogischen Ansätze sind die Stärken der Kinder hervorzuheben und somit ihr Selbstbewusstsein zu festigen sowie die Auseinandersetzung mit Werten und Normen.

Die Wertschätzung von Gottes Schöpfung ist uns ebenfalls ein zentrales Bedürfnis. Dabei geht es uns um das kindgemäße Kennenlernen der Welt als unseren Lebensraum und das Wecken und Stärken eines Verantwortungsbewusstseins für die Schöpfung. Darüber hinaus legen wir großen Wert auf einen nachhaltigen Umgang mit vorhandenen Ressourcen.

Employee

Teamwork with school

Kooperation mit der Grundschule:

• Während der Vorschulzeit kommt eine Lehrkraft aus der benachbarten Grundschule zwei Mal wöchentlich für zwei Schulstunden in den Kindergarten. An einem der beiden Tage gehen die Vorschulkinder gemeinsam mit der Lehrkraft und einem*r Erzieher*in in die Schulsporthalle zum Turnen. An dem anderen Tag ist die Lehrkraft in der Einrichtung und hat durch Einzelgespräche und Aktivitäten die Möglichkeit die Kinder näher kennenzulernen und eine Beziehung zu ihnen aufzubauen.

• Wenn die Kinder die 1. Klasse besuchen, geht der*die Kooperationserzieher*in aus dem Kindergarten zwei Mal wöchentlich ebenfalls für jeweils zwei Schulstunden in die Schule.

Teamwork with parents

As we aim to be a family-oriented kindergarten, daily contact with the children’s parents and relatives is very important to us. We offer different platforms to stay in touch with parents. What matters most to us is to meet parents on equal terms and to include them as experts on their own children in our educational work.

Since October 2019, in cooperation with the NEUMAYER Foundation, we have been offering an additional platform for intensive relationship-building between kindergarten and home. KiFa is a concept implemented in daycare centers and primary schools. It combines parental involvement, parent education, language development and support, networking of assistance services, as well as training for professionals and mentors – in a needs-based and holistic way. Access to families takes place through the educational institutions and the mentors.

Our portfolio includes various ways of communication:

• Kita-Info-App

• Parent-teacher meetings (by phone, video call, or in person)

• KiFa course

• Various parent activities (e.g., fathers’ afternoon, summer festival, grandparents’ afternoon, craft activities, parent afternoons, information events, etc.)

The Parents’ Council is the parents’ representative body. Elections for the council take place at the first parents’ evening of each new kindergarten year. The goal is to foster a trusting and constructive cooperation for the positive development of the daycare center.

Projects

Our kindergarten works with a semi-open concept. This means that each child is assigned to a home group, where their learning journey can begin, but otherwise they are free to move around the indoor and outdoor areas, taking into account our duty of supervision. We aim to support the children in their decisions, wishes, and needs.

The semi-open concept encourages children to engage independently with their learning environment and to take part in deciding what they want to learn today, with whom they want to learn, where they want to learn, and also with what intensity. Through our observations, we can offer the children projects that are designed and developed together with them.

Holiday Care

Holiday care will be offered during the summer holidays at the Kinderhaus Künzelsau, Zollstockweg 34, 74653 Künzelsau.

In the future, registration will also be possible via the parents’ portal.

If required, please contact the city administration. Thank you very much.

Description and Stations

By cable car:
Get off at the stop and walk to the right across the station square, then cross the street.

By car:
After the town sign “Taläcker,” take the next possible right turn into Taläckerallee. Then take the second possible left turn. At the fork of the next junction, you will see our facility on the right-hand side.