Introduction/specifics
Welcome to the evangelical children's home Paul and Paulinchen!
Age
We take children from 12 months up to school enrollment
Groups
Our house offers a total of 87 places, divided into kindergarten and crèche.
Life in a group
We mainly work in core groups (25 children), so we want to meet the natural need for security and belonging. It helps us to keep an eye on the children more specifically and to accompany their development personally. Of course, the children can visit each other in the neighboring groups or form their own play and work groups. For us, common children's house activities are of course part of the course of the year.
Snack and drinks
The children bring fruit, bread, yoghurt and the like from home. Sweets should only be packed in small quantities in the lunch bag and instead replaced with something healthy.
Mostly after the circle of chairs the children go to wash their hands and then make snacks together in their group.
Water and fruit tea (sweetened with juice) and glasses are available for the children at all times. Children are welcome to bring a drinking bottle from home and fill it here. This is particularly useful if we spontaneously decide to go to the playground, for example.
Circle of chairs, small group work
The daily times in the circle of chairs are very important to us. We use this time for many community experiences, which are often deepened later in small groups.
Festivals and Celebrations
We attach great importance to the common parties and celebrations. Be it celebrating a birthday, celebrating the annual festivals across groups, walking across the settlement with our lanterns, our big summer festival or or ... - our goal is always to convey something to the children about the meaning of the festival on an emotional level and experience the joy of planning and celebrating with them.