Introduction/specifics

The Schulstraße childcare center is a three-group facility (30 places) with extended opening hours and all-day care for children aged between 11 months and 3 years (U3).

Childcare models:

• Model 1: Monday - Friday 7 a.m. to 1 p.m.
• Model 2: Monday - Friday 7 a.m. to 2 p.m.
• Model 3 (all-day care): Monday - Thursday 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Friday 7 a.m. to 2 p.m.
• Model 4 (3 days all-day care): Care from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. on 3 fixed days (Fri. until 2 p.m.)

For models 3 and 4, free pick-up time from 2 p.m. or after the afternoon nap

Participation in lunch is compulsory for all children

Special features:

We organize the daily routine in our toddler care in a situation- and needs-oriented manner. We want to offer the children a variety of opportunities for independent exploration and learning. The children can stay in their home group or make use of various cross-group play opportunities. At the same time, consistent rituals provide structure and orientation in the daily routine.

Settling in is very important to us, as a good relationship with the new caregivers and the children's group ensures a successful start to external care. A trusting cooperation with the parents/guardians is very important to us during the entire daycare period.

We acclimatize the children to the Tübingen acclimatization model - the “peer acclimatization”. This model gives the children the opportunity to start in a group of 3-4 children of the same age in the daycare center and thus to use the peer group as a resource for a successful transition in addition to the relationship with the pedagogical staff. To ensure that the peer group can start at the daycare center in a calm and relaxed atmosphere, we acclimate the children in the afternoon.

If no peer group can be formed or if space constraints prevent the establishment of a peer group, the children will be acclimated individually according to the Berlin model.

Gross motor skills are a major area of development for children under the age of three. We therefore attach great importance to stimulating movement in everyday life. In almost any weather, we can be found exploring the fields in the surrounding area, the playgrounds or our garden. In bad weather or in between, we have our exercise room at our disposal.

Language acquisition is also a major developmental task for young children. We support the children in this task by accompanying our activities with language. We take a lot of time for reading aloud, singing songs and planning finger plays/crawling verses. An additional specialist supports us three days a week.

Rooms

We have three spacious group rooms. Each group room is individually designed and adapted to the needs of the current group of children.
Meals are taken in the kitchen or in the separate dining room.
Each child has a bed in the three bedrooms.
The facility also has two changing rooms with toddler toilets and shower facilities. Here, each child has a personal locker for changing utensils and a change of clothes.
A highlight is our large exercise room. This is much loved by the children and is redesigned by us at regular intervals to create new stimuli for movement.
In addition to the separate checkroom, which is used for changing shoes, we also have a long play corridor. This is where the marble run is located, as well as cork walls, which are used as easels for extensive painting activities. As an extension of the activity room, the corridor also serves as a racetrack for vehicles or races.
 

Outdoor Facilities

The garden extends in the form of a long terrace, which is accessible from all 3 group rooms and a play area with climbing facilities, slide and sandpit. We also have access to the adjoining garden of the Lehenstraße kindergarten with another climbing frame for toddlers, a playhouse, a mud kitchen and plenty of space to run around.

Daily Schedule

7.00 a.m. - 8.45 a.m.

Children can be brought to the childcare center during open drop-off time until 8:45 am. The children are cared for in different groups until 8.00 am. From 8.00 a.m., the children can choose where they would like to play.

8.45 a.m. - approx. 9.10 a.m.

Tidying up together and morning circle

9.10 a.m. - 9.40 a.m.

Breakfast together

9.40 a.m. - 10.30 a.m.

Playing in the groups, changing/toilet and getting dressed

10.30 a.m. - 11.30 a.m.

Play in the garden, walk or exercise. Depending on the situation/weather, the garden times may change

11.30 a.m. - 12.30 p.m.

Lunch together (participation in lunch is compulsory for all children)

12.30 p.m. - 1.00 p.m.

Play in the Sky Blue group for the 13.00 children. From 12.50 pm pick up in the checkroom

Changing and putting to bed of the 2.00 p.m. and full-day children

from 13.50

Pick-up time for the 14.00 children

From 2 p.m.

Open pick-up time for the full-day children

until 15.00 hrs

After nap time, free play time until all children are awake

3.00 p.m.

Afternoon snack

3.30 p.m. - 5.00 p.m.

Free play in the rooms or in the garden

The children's bedtimes are individually integrated into the daily routine depending on their age and needs.

Food

All children take part in the communal meals.
Breakfast is brought from home and takes place after the morning circle from approx. 9.10 am to 9.40 am.
Lunch is provided by Diakonie Stetten. This is the Cook & Chill method. The food is prepared in a central kitchen, cooled and delivered daily. At the facility, the food is heated in a convection oven and served. 
For the full-day children, there is an additional snack at 3 pm. This is brought from home.
A refrigerator is available for food brought from home that needs to be cooled.
We take part in the EU school program and regularly receive fruit and vegetables from a regional supplier. We integrate this into our daily meals and offer the children a colorful plate of it every day free of charge. 
 

Basics

Our children should feel accepted and secure with us. This is the basis for them to be able to develop and learn freely in the daycare center. The prerequisite for this is a successful acclimatization.

Playing means learning, this is especially true for toddlers - we value play as the most important activity for children and offer them a variety of play stimuli, but also the freedom to devote themselves to their current developmental task. 

Care situations are a field of learning and development for small children. That is why we place great value on Emmi Pikler's relationship-based care.

In general, we work according to the situational approach. This involves the educational staff analyzing what children can and know and what they want to experience. They give them access to new knowledge and new experiences that are important for their development. We create a stimulating environment that awakens the children's curiosity and interest, their desire to discover and experiment, and promotes a wide range of perceptual and expressive possibilities. We observe the children and explore what moves them and open up learning opportunities for the children in real life situations.

In general, our work is based on the orientation plan for education and upbringing in kindergartens in Baden-Württemberg.

Employee

Our team is made up of specialists with different qualifications. We use the multi-professionalism of our team as a resource.

Quality Assurance

We use the regular team meetings and pedagogical days to create various pedagogical concepts, such as the protection concept, the sexual education concept or to further develop existing structures, such as the acclimatization model, conflict management or the feedback and error culture.

We evaluate and revise the concepts created at regular intervals in the spirit of a learning organization.

Collegial consultation at all levels and the opportunity for further training round off our quality assurance.

Cooperations

We work together with the following institutions:

• The Remshalden local authority's specialist curative education service, which assists us in a wide variety of situations and with issues relating to the children's development and growing up.
• The Remshalden kindergartens that take our children after their 3rd birthday
• The Grunbach elementary school, which makes its gymnastics hall available to us
• The technical colleges and universities in the area that our trainees attend.

Projects

Projects and educational impulses are based on the current topics of our children. We identify these topics through observations in everyday life as well as through regular, concept-based observations.