Introduction/specifics

"Where there are children is wonderland
Miles away and right next door,
big as the heart and small as the hand.
Where there are children, there is wonderland.
It's suddenly there, you don't have to wait.
No border, no fence, no entrance tickets.
No road, no sidewalk leads you in.
It's missing from the map. Where could it be?
It's miles away and right next door,
where no one can hear or see you,
hidden in the elder bush, as quiet as a mouse 
and where the grass still grows as it pleases.
What stories do the birds sing?
What the babbling brooks have to say?
Where does the wind blow through the grass from far away
across the dandelion season?
Find your own wonderland,
big as the heart and small as the hand.
Where you can wonder and marvel,
it comes alive - your wonderland.

Fredrik Vahle

This wonderful poem by Fredrik Vahle inspired us to name our kindergarten.  Children are the greatest miracle of all and everyone was once a child themselves!  This means that childhood and "being allowed to be a child" are very important to us. As educational professionals, we are aware of this responsibility and want to be reliable educational companions for the children and their families. 
We want to be a place for the children and their families where they feel comfortable and secure and find a second home. It is very important to us to create an environment that offers children the opportunity to develop their potential and natural curiosity for their environment. In the community with other children, they experience social interaction in which they can grow up protected and free. The educational staff are educational partners and caregivers who accompany the children step by step in their day-to-day life at the daycare center.

The Wunderland kindergarten team consists of pedagogical specialists and supplementary staff in accordance with legal requirements. The team is complemented by trainees from various educational backgrounds.

Rooms

The kindergarten offers space for 35 children aged 2.6 - 6 years. Our facility works according to the open concept, i.e. the children can use the functional rooms, which are designed according to the educational areas, according to their interests during the course of the day. These functional rooms are available:

• Group room (with opportunities for learning and table games, joint educational documentation, creative corner, cuddle cave ...)
• Quiet room / room for individual support programs
• Preschool experiment room 
• gymnasium
• Role play room
• Construction room

Thanks to our numerous and freely selectable educational activities and project themes in the functional rooms, the children have the opportunity to develop freely according to their wishes and needs and to actively help shape their everyday lives. We offer the children a wide field of discovery that encourages them to try things out and gain new experiences.

Daily Schedule

A day at Wunderland Kindergarten: Daily routine

7:00 - 8:30 a.m. Bring time 

8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Morning circle

7:00 - 10:00 a.m. Flexitime breakfast

7:00 - 11:30 a.m. Free play time/activities/garden

From 11:30 - 13:00 Lunch in small groups

From 12:00 noon nap as required/free play time

From 13:00 Flexible pick-up time

15:00 Vesper

16:00 The day at Kindergarten Wunderland ends.

Food

Our kindergarten is supplied with hot lunches every day by "Auf Draht". "Auf Draht" is a non-profit organization. The sole shareholder is the AWO Kreisverband Mittelfranken-Süd e.V.

You can find the most important information about our lunch in the attached flyer. 

Lunch at the kindergarten is charged at a flat rate of € 71.50 per month.

Basics

The kindergarten offers space for 35 children aged 2.6 - 6 years. Our facility works according to the open concept, i.e. the children can use the functional rooms, which are designed based on the educational areas, according to their interests during the course of the day.

- Promoting movement and motor skills
We attach great importance to providing children with indoor and outdoor exercise opportunities. The child learns to experience its own body by testing its motor skills and abilities. We offer a learning environment that optimally promotes the child's physical development. This is reinforced by our specialist with further training in psychomotor skills and yoga with children.
- Participation
The children's daily right of co-determination is very important to us. This means that everyday life is controlled by the children and we work in a child-oriented way. This means, for example, that the children decide for themselves what and how much they want to eat at mealtimes, where they want to play and what they want to wear. Which topics and projects are dealt with and which excursions are planned are based on the children's interests. Rules for the functional rooms are also developed and formulated together.
- Cooperation with the senior citizens and their social pedagogues 
Various festivals are planned and celebrated together throughout the year. The daily routine often includes joint games or musical activities. Young and old benefit from this in their daily lives. In addition, our reading nanny visits us once a week and brings different books depending on the children's interests. 

- Promoting independence:
Every child is naturally curious and enjoys learning. We offer the children a variety of opportunities to try things out for themselves and do things independently. They have the opportunity to develop their everyday skills. We encourage the children to try things out for themselves, support them along the way and provide assistance.

- Musical education
Music is a constant companion at our facility. We experience what music does to us and our bodies together with a wide variety of instruments or simply with our hands and feet.  Every day we sing our welcome song in the morning circle. In this way, we also train the children's mathematical understanding (counting and number series) and communicate who is present in the group today.
- Health promotion
Hygiene is important to us in order to maintain the children's health. We pay particular attention to cleanliness when changing diapers, going to the toilet, after a visit to the garden and eating. The children wash their hands regularly, under supervision and independently. We pay attention to a practical way of life and offer the children sufficient exercise and a varied and diverse range of food. Fruit and vegetables are a daily part of our menu. Learning to treat food with respect is important to us.

- Cleanliness education 
Every child has their own pace to become "clean". We support this, but give the children the time they need to become "clean" on their own. The individual stage of development of each child determines whether the child is changed or whether the use of the toilet can be instructed. 
- Language development:
Children learn a language by imitation. We are very aware of this fact and offer the children the opportunity to try out their language skills at any time. There are many opportunities to use language in everyday educational activities, e.g. during free play, when changing diapers, in the garden, while eating, dressing and undressing. We use finger plays, rhymes, verses and songs to creatively expand the vocabulary.
- Social education:
For many children, kindergarten is the first place where they experience community outside of the family.  We are committed to ensuring that they feel comfortable in this community, that they make contacts and friendships, but also that they learn to take responsibility, resolve conflicts and endure frustration.

Employee

Our team: 

Franziska Scheffler (childhood educator B.A. and facility manager)

Kerstin S. (nursery teacher)

Franziska P. (childcare worker)

Andy G. (childcare worker)

Laura L. (childcare worker) 

We are currently supported by BFD and a trainee in her 1st year of training.

Cooperations

Our Wunderland kindergarten is located on the 2nd floor of the AWO Hermann-Vogel-Pflegezentrum. 

The fact that it is integrated with the nursing home and the AWO day care center, which is located on the same floor, means that there are always opportunities to meet up together. 

During Advent, for example, we sing songs together and bake cookies. There are play afternoons together with the children and the senior citizens and young and old also meet in the garden.

Specifics

Our sponsor, the AWO Kreisverband Mittelfranken-Süd e.V. introduces itself: 

Since its foundation in 1919, the Arbeiterwohlfahrt (Workers' Welfare Association), as an independent, recognized umbrella organization of independent welfare services, has developed into a social service provider that has become indispensable in our society. It offers extensive and varied services for the youngest to the oldest people in our society.

The second largest district association of the Workers' Welfare Association in Bavaria sees its special objective in supporting families. Under the umbrella of the AWO-Kreisverband Mittelfranken Süd e.V., around 700 children receive socio-educational care in crèches, kindergartens and after-school care centers. In addition to an increased expansion of childcare in socio-educational facilities, families are also to be supported through parent education programs and health cure measures. The AWO Youth Organization offers a wide range of interesting activities for young people.

The responsibility for all day care centers in the district association lies with the Department of Day Care Centers and Family Education. In addition to the professional pedagogical support of the management and specialist staff, the entire organization and administration is handled here. The provider and the Child Day Care Centers and Family Education Department are in close and continuous contact.

The mission statement of Arbeiterwohlfahrt places the following values at the forefront of its social work:

  Tolerance ● Justice ● Equality ● Solidarity ● Freedom

This results in the following principles for the educational work in the individual childcare facilities:

            ● Fundamental acceptance of the individuality of each child with their strengths and weaknesses and practiced       tolerance towards different world views and denominations

            ● Creating the best possible equal opportunities for all children during care and in relation to their future

            ● Educating a sense of responsibility and solidarity towards oneself, others and one's environment

            ● Imparting an affirmative, joyful and fun, liberal attitude to life

News

Our open day will take place on Saturday, 27.01.2024. We look forward to welcoming you between 10:00 and 14:00. On this day, you can get to know our premises and the educational staff in person. 

Pre-registration is not necessary!

Overview

Regulations for our daycare centers
§1 Admission criteria
Admission is subject to the availability of places. As a rule, children are admitted to the crèche from the age of 12 months, to the kindergarten from the age of 2 years and 6 months, and to the after-school care center when they start school. If there are not enough places available, the management decides on the order of admission according to the following criteria:
 Children already attending the facility - internal transfer (except guest children)
 Siblings, taking into account the minimum admission age
 Consideration of the group composition from a pedagogical and legal point of view
 Children whose legal guardians are in a special emergency situation
 Proximity to place of residence
 Employment of at least one parent in one of our AWO facilities
 Membership of a local AWO association

Special regulations:
 Younger children are admitted to the kindergarten if all three-year-olds are provided with a place in a daycare center

Description and Stations

The Wunderland kindergarten is in a quiet location in the north of Schwabach, at Abenberger Straße 3. The kindergarten is embedded in an attractive residential area. O'Brien Park was created on the site of the former barracks. This makes the kindergarten part of a diverse urban environment. The kindergarten is easy to reach both by public transport and by car. There are numerous parking spaces available.