Introduction/specifics

This is who we are

The Flohkiste offers space for 48 crèche and 100 kindergarten children. The facility is sponsored by the Bavarian Red Cross.
Red Cross.
The bright, friendly rooms are age-appropriate and the newly designed, natural garden offers space to play and discover.
We are open to children from different backgrounds, regardless of religion or skin color. We are committed to integration, equality and solidarity and value life in the community.

What sets us apart

- We want to give children what they need for a stable relationship, education and development
- Recurring routines and rituals offer the child security for everyday life
- Cooperation between crèche and kindergarten, all groups meet once a week for a joint morning circle
- Kindergarten and crèche children spend the afternoon together
- Preschool takes place once a week (across groups)
- A joint breakfast takes place at regular intervals across all groups
- We always celebrate festivals together
- All employees regularly take part in further and advanced training courses
- A development discussion takes place at least once a year
- We support and advise parents on educational and developmental issues

Rooms

Jeder Gruppenraum ist kindgerecht und individuell eingerichtet und in verschiedene Spielecken unterteilt. Somit bietet der Raum Möglichkeiten für selbstbildende Gruppen im Freispiel und eine Atmosphäre der Geborgenheit durch Rückzugsmöglichkeiten.

Einzelne Räume und Bereiche sind unterschiedlich ausgegliedert. Wir versuchen durch die gezielte Strukturierung bestimmter Bereiche den Grundbedürfnissen der Kinder gerecht zu werden. Deshalb werden immer wieder Veränderungen der Nutzung der Raumgestaltung vorgenommen.

Flure und Dielenbereiche werden als Spielfläche zusätzlich genutzt.

Outdoor Facilities

In 2021, in collaboration with parents, the daycare team and a certified natural garden specialist, a near-natural and biodiverse garden and playground with a wide variety of plant species and a habitat for diverse animal species was created. The different usage areas allow the children to experience nature through play.

Herbs are grown in raised beds to include other topics such as healthy eating. Various deadwood corners and a dragonfly pond have been created. The various elements help the nursery team to build up access to nature and our natural resources together with the children

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Daily Schedule

In order to make our work in the daycare center a little more transparent for "outsiders" and therefore easier to understand, we would now like to present a diagram of a daily routine.

Of course, this "sample day" is only one possibility of what a day could be like.

Kindergarten:

7.00 - 8.30 a.m                                Early service in the crèche, children arrive, free play

8.30 - 9.00 a.m.                               Morning circle, all children are there

9.00 a.m.                                          common or flexible breakfast time

10.00 a.m.                                        Free play/educational activities/preschool/excursions/garden

11.45 a.m.                                        1st pick-up time

12.00 p.m.                                        Lunch together

12.30 - 13.45                                    Quiet play/lunch break

13.45 - 14.00                                    2nd pick-up time

2.00 - 2.45 p.m.                                snack/learning workshops/free play

2.45 - 3 p.m.                                     3rd pick-up time

15.00 - 17.00                                    Free play/activities/garden

From 3 p.m.                                       flexible pick-up time

5 p.m.                                                  the daycare center closes

Crèche:

07.00 - 8.30 a.m.                         Children arrive, free play in the snail group
08.30 a.m.                                  Morning circle together
09.00 a.m.                                  Breakfast together
09.30 am                                    Relationship-oriented care
10.00 - 11.00 a.m.                       Free play/activities/excursions/garden
11.15 a.m.                                  Lunch together
11.45 - 12.00                              1st pick-up time
12.00 - 13.30                              Lunchtime nap
1.30 - 1.45 p.m.                         Getting up/relationship-oriented care
13.45 - 14.00                             2nd pick-up time
From 2.00 p.m.                          The crèche children go to kindergarten

17.00 The daycare center closes

Every Friday there is a big morning circle with all the Flohkiste children in the movement room.

Food

Kindergarten

Eating meals is of particular importance to us. In the mornings, snack time takes place until around 10 o'clock. This means that the children decide for themselves when and with whom they want to eat.

Crèche

In the crèche, snacks are eaten together.

Breakfast is provided by the parents in both the kindergarten and the crèche.

Once a month there is a communal breakfast in the crèche.

Lunch

We obtain our hot lunch from the caterer "Rein" in Roth. An external service provider "kitafino" is required for this. It is up to each family to decide whether they would like to use this service.

Specifics

The joy of learning

Education is more than just knowledge, because curiosity, a creative approach to challenges, the joy of learning and contact with the environment are at the heart of children's development.

Children learn not only with their heads, but also through movement, emotions and imagination - they learn with all their senses.
To this end, we create a sense of security and safety through reliable, consistent caregivers and constantly offer new stimuli and challenges.

We attach great importance to the holistic nature of our educational work.

Projects

Forest week

Every year, we spend a week in the forest with the children. On our forest days, the children experience the forest up close and can take away many impressions for themselves, with targeted nature education activities taking place in the forest every day.

Project work

We take on projects depending on the current interests of our children. Through targeted observation, we find out what the children are currently interested in. In this way, we work on a specific topic over a longer period of time and thus acquire new knowledge. It is very important to us that all children are heard.

Special events/cooperation

Many different events accompany us throughout the educational year:

•     Christmas market at the daycare center
•     Christmas market in the town of Schwabach
•     Christmas service in the town church
•     Visit from the puppet theater
•     Traffic training for the pre-school children
•     Visit from the dentist
•     Summer party/family outing
•     Visits to the senior center

    and much more ...