Habitat Exploration & Experience Nature

Children should have the opportunity to experience nature in all its facets, especially in inner-city areas. This includes not only recognising the different seasons and weather phenomena, but also experiencing the natural elements directly.
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.

Movement

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.

Preparation for school

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.

Festivals and Celebrations

In the course of the year, we have many opportunities to celebrate. These feasts are important to us, give us a break from everyday life, 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.