Introduction/specifics

Welcome to the kindergarten Eschbach!

We are a three-group, municipal facility of the municipality of Stegen and are idyllically located on the Sommerberg between meadows, right next to the elementary school Eschbach.
We can be easily reached on foot, via a cycle path from Stegen and by public transport. There is also a large parking lot at the school.

In our house we offer the following types of services:
Regular group: Mon-Fri 8.00-13.00 + Mon, Tue, Thu 14.00-17.00 / Early group: 7.30-8.00 (additional bookable!)
Extended opening hours: 7.30-14.00 hrs
Full day group: Mon, Tue, Thu 7.30-17.00 + Wed, Fri 7.30-14.00
Toddler group: Mon-Fri 8.00-13.00 / (Also bookable from 8.30 -13.00 for lower fee!)

What makes us special?

- Family atmosphere due to small, manageable size (1 toddler group, 2 kindergarten groups)
Everybody knows everybody!
- fixed core groups with group pedagogy
- Group-wide activities, e.g. sports, "Zahlenland", nature adventure days, "Mini-Treff"...
- qualified observations, documentation, portfolio work
- close cooperation with the elementary school
- Cooperation with parents on a partnership basis

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Rooms

Our rooms are child-friendly and lovingly furnished and offer the children a sense of security, but also stimulation and a wide range of play opportunities through materials and room design. Each group of children has a fixed group room. There is a movement room and a discovery room for all groups. Our spacious garden offers plenty of room and play opportunities! We look forward to being able to care for, accompany and encourage your children here.

Food

It is important to introduce children to healthy drinking and eating habits at an early age.
Parents give the children a balanced breakfast/snack from home. Also a drink. We recommend still water or tea. In the kindergarten, there is a no sweets policy for everyone in the daily routine.
The children eat a free breakfast in the morning (between 7:30 am - 11 am), as well as a free snack in the afternoon.

We participate in the EU school fruit program and the EU school milk program. This gives the children additional access to fruit, milk and yogurt through the kindergarten while supplies last.

The children in the extended opening hours (VÖ - group) eat a second, cold snack from home at lunchtime.

The full-day children each bring a cooked meal from home, which is heated through and eaten warm in the kindergarten on the long days. Each child receives their own meal only.
(Eventually changeover to catered lunch)
Lunch is always taken together at 1 pm.

Basics

Our pedagogical basics:

    We work according to a partially open concept, which is based on aspects of open and situation-oriented preschool pedagogy. The orientation plan of Baden-Württemberg is a guideline for us and flows into our daily work.
    The basis of our work is a trusting, respectful and secure relationship with each child. These reliable and sustainable relationships create the basis for a joyful learning environment for the children in all social, emotional, cognitive and motor areas of the kindergarten work.
     We are at the children's side with a lot of heart and always an open ear. It is important to us that we take the children's questions and problems seriously, discuss them and listen to them. Children are given the opportunity to complain and bring about change.
    We see the children as unique personalities with individual talents, who are valued by us and accepted with their idiosyncrasies.
    We give the children orientation, security and support through loving attention, a fixed daily structure, rules and boundaries.
    Our children experience themselves as part of the group community and belong to their home group: mouse group, bear group, horse group. There are cross-group activities and activities such as sports in the gym, nature adventure days, mini get-togethers, parties and celebrations, shared use of space such as the exercise room and garden mean that all children and teachers know each other.
    We want our children to have basic experiences, as well as develop and expand skills and abilities that will help them to follow their path in life as independently, competently, creatively and socially as possible.

                                        "Children are not barrels

                                        that need to be filled, but fires

                                        that want to be kindled."

                                                               Francoris Rabelais