You are important to me
In a mixed age group children experience themselves as being sometimes big, sometimes little, sometimes strong, sometimes helpful, sometimes needing help.
These own experiences are the basis for mutual understanding and responsible acting.

I am interested
Questions from children are taken up and answers will be found together. Where children are taken serious in their interests, they develop pleasure in learning and discovering.

I comprehend
Children learn holistically. They do not only want to see things and talk about it.
They want to touch, smell, taste, feel and experiment.
This is allowed and promoted in Kindergarten. Sensory perceptions are the basis for a differentiated imagination and thinking. The children may have dirty trousers and sticky fingers, but only in this way they make all the experiences which will enable them later at school to think and understand coherences.

I can do something
To dress and undress by oneself, to tie shoes by oneself, to take care that the lost slipper is found again, to wipe up the spilled drink by oneself.
These are the small steps to a big autonomy.

I want to know this

The driving force for learning is curiosity. And children are tremendously curious. This is desired and also promoted by the kindergarten.

I dare

To cut with the knife or scissors, saw: children want to do things “in real” and not only by playing. In kindergarten children are allowed to cook, bake, work, plant, put their own ideas into practice.

I have an idea
To draw and paint pictures, work, create, make music, play and invent stories: Kindergarten offers time, possibilities and freedom for creating own forms of  expression. Thereby the children develop self-initiative and imagination, pursue their ideas, find their own ways and solutions, become inventive and creative.

I like to do this
Kindergarten routine is based on the needs of the children. Particular importance is paid to play. To play is fun and children love to do what makes fun with their whole heart. Time to play is a time where children focus their whole concentration on one thing and thereby develop endurance and stamina.

I am part of
To be together with others always means to children to play with others. Common interest in playing unites. During the play children plan together, tackle with each other, learn to assert themselves, find compromises and make friends.

I have to say something
To settle a dispute with each other, to tell about experiences, to plan a trip together, be asked about one’s own opinion, be able to say what I like and what not: that makes strong. Who learns to express oneself linguistically is able to communicate with others, will not be overheard or ignored.

I have a task
In Kindergarten children take over tasks in the community. Setting the table, clearing up after playing, helping others to dress, taking care of a child who is new: With many little deeds the children learn to take over responsibility for each other and for common cause.