Trips
The institution is attended by children who mostly live in different areas. It is therefore important for us to make them familiar with the surrounding area through little excursions. The children experience nature through the changing seasons and in different weather conditions. They learn to move with and in a group, to follow rules and thereby obtain social skills. Depending on what the current offers, we also go to theatres, the cinema and museums, to the nearby Tierpark, to the Wuhlheide park etc.
Festivals and Celebrations
In the course of a day care year, we have many opportunities to celebrate. Feasts are important to us because they offer us a break in our everyday routines, are fun and leave us with beautiful memories. For our preschool children there is an annual children's festival in the "Freiraum" - the event hall of the culture department of studierendenWERK. Every year, we’re also looking forward to our annual summer festival and our lantern festival in autumn.
Sport and Exercise
Once a week we use the university gym. In addition to the fun of exercise and play, we give the children various opportunities to become aware of their physical strengths and to discover the social aspects of sport.
Playground
It is important to us that the children move a lot and find joy in it. We usually go outside on our playground every day and in almost every weather condition. There the children can romp, climb, swing, slide, dig, and explore nature as they please. A water main allows for summer water games.
Participation and Contribution
Our team has taken the rights of the children into consideration and is currently developing a pedagogical guideline in which they will further define and describe the concrete (co)decision rights of the children.
Alle unter einem Dach ("All Under One Roof")
Children from different cultures are coming and playing together in our day care center. The current project of the mixed-age area Alle unter einem Dach ("All Under One Roof") offers the opportunity to get to know the diversity of the children, their mother tongues, backgrounds, and lifestyles. The project begins with a common afternoon in which children, parents, and teachers present things such as games, photos, songs, and typical local dishes to each other. In addition to other activities, this also includes greeting each other in the morning circle in the various languages of the children, which brings intercultural learning into the everyday life of the day care center.