Little explorers day care centre

The "Kleine Forschergeister" daycare centre was opened on 1 April 2013 after extensive renovations to the former school building in Alt-Rüdersdorf. The schoolyard was turned into an age-appropriate playground. The "Grundschule" bus stop on the 950 bus route is located directly in front of the building and the Hoffnungskirche church is in the immediate vicinity.

A daycare centre for 60 children in 3 group areas
Yellow area: 20 children; 1-3 years;
Ground floor Green area: 20 children; 2-4 years;
Ground floor Blue area: 20 children; 4-6 years; upper floor

Each group area consists of:
2 playrooms (main room and side room) a wet room with washbasin and WC a cloakroom Additional rooms for open-plan work and educational activities Research room Children's kitchen Sports and exercise room Dining room

We work according to the "situation-orientated approach". For us, this means:
- The children's topics take centre stage.
- We develop projects based on the topics that most of the children are interested in.
- We use conversations, pictures, songs, fairy tales, nature and other opportunities to explore the topic in greater depth, gain new experiences of action and thus build and develop new skills for the future in the children.
- We work with the children to process their impressions. We work with the children on their impressions and experiences, help them to understand life, prepare them for the future and enable them to develop positively.

Semi-open educational work consisting of age-specific activities and times of free play:
- to provide the children with a safe environment in the group, but also to expand their range of experiences according to their individual needs,
- to support all children in the specified educational areas with age-specific programmes and to prevent developmental delays in good time
- to control the opening and use of all areas of the daycare centre in the interests of all children in order to draw conclusions from free play for the educational programmes
- to ensure a healthy variety of times of self-determination and times of age-appropriate support in all educational areas
- to enable cross-group contacts, increase the children's social skills and promote learning across age groups

Food supply
Full catering is provided by the provider Sunshine Catering GmbH.