Kita at the Berliner Hochschule für Technik

There’s the need to explore the world in every child, to learn about new things and to express oneself. We regard it as one of our core tasks to accompany the child sensitively and to offer them an explorative field according to their respective age and stage of development.

Our house is open to ideas, creativity and fantasy of the children. Apart from the family, the day care community is another little living environment. We offer support and room for creativity to explore and further shape this living environment, i.e. the design of the garden.

We want to strengthen the children’s sense of togetherness and their respect towards one another. We achieve this through various group activities, for example by doing experiments as a group or by visiting the adventure playground. The children learn from each other and are inspired to explore their environment together as well as to develop their motor and linguistic abilities.

We support cognitive and social competences. We put a special emphasis on the education of nature, environment, technology and sustainability. We encourage the children to think about their environment while playing, observing and experimenting. We support them in answering these questions individually and also find individual solutions.

Our large, bright rooms offer stimulating play areas and opportunities for retreat.
All rooms are equipped according to the current needs of the children.

Children should experience nature especially in the inner-city area.
This includes, among other things, experiencing the seasons and different weather phenomena, as well as directly experiencing natural elements.
Our garden offers a variety of plants, such as bushes, flowers and berry bushes, where the children can observe natural growth processes together with the educational staff.
We also want to give the children numerous opportunities to experience how the environment and nature are used in our culture.

For joint excursions, such as to the ATZE music theatre and the Berlin Zoo, we use the nearby surroundings and the Berlin cultural landscape.
We regularly go to the nearby Rehberge or to surrounding playgrounds.

We provide the children with a variety of gross and fine motor movement experiences.
The children should get to know their own bodies better and at the same time understand their environment.
Movement plays a big role in this.
In our movement room, they can romp, climb and build their own retreats, such as caves.
The garden is used daily, which gives the children more independence and self-efficacy.

Even more possibilities are offered by the gymnasium of the Berlin University of Applied Sciences in the adjacent building, which we use twice a week.
Here, different activities such as climbing a movement landscape, playing with the swing cloth or ball games can be enjoyed.

We want to enable the children to make a good and safe transition to school.
Therefore, once a week, our preschool children are offered a programme within an age-homogeneous group. At the beginning, different emotions are discussed, what are they called, how do they feel and how do I deal with them.
Our focus is on promoting social skills such as dealing with conflicts, a sense of responsibility, trust in oneself, empathy and respectful interaction with others.
The children deal with rules, why they exist and what they are good for.
At the end of the daycare year, project-related activities take place.
Excursions, such as a visit to the library or the traffic garden, round off our programme.