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KITA WANNENBAD

Learning & Community

Our approach, daily life and working with families.
Illustrative photo: A child building with colourful wooden blocks.

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Learning and feeling at home together

We combine home groups with open activities and follow the Situationsansatz, an approach based on children’s life situations. The home group provides security, while other rooms and activities offer freedom to explore. Children’s interests and everyday experiences are the starting points for our work.

Movement and healthy eating are as much a part of this as discovering and learning together. We support each child along their individual developmental path.

Values that connect us

Harvest Festival, Christmas and Easter bring the Christian year to life. Stories, songs, rituals and shared celebrations convey community, love for others and gratitude.

We treat children with respect and help them develop confidence, independence and a sense of responsibility.

Children help shape everyday life

Shared decision-making and participation are part of our everyday life. Children contribute their ideas and wishes and experience democratic decisions in the community. Regular children’s meetings give them space to do this.

Illustrative photo: A colourful flower drawing and pencils.

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A broad range of learning
  • Language and communication
  • Movement and health
  • Social and emotional development
  • Nature and the environment
  • Creativity, music and the arts
  • Religion and values
  • Early mathematical and scientific experiences
Daily life in the kindergarten groups

After early care and arrival in the groups, there is time for free play, planned activities and shared rituals. During open sessions, children choose between the garden, gym and multipurpose hall.

From 12:00, there is lunch or packed food. Playtime, activities and individual support follow. In the afternoon, play opportunities between the groups and multipurpose hall open again. On Fridays, care ends earlier, at 14:00.

Daily life in the nursery

Early care starts in Zwergenland. Children then play in their groups and take part in planned activities. Shared breakfast, changing and personal care, movement and outings give structure to the morning.

Lunch starts at 12:00, followed by time for changing, rest and sleep. In the afternoon, children use their group room, gym or garden according to their needs. On Fridays, the setting closes at 14:00.

Projects and special activities

New projects respond to children’s interests and put our educational priorities into practice. They include activities about healthy eating, music and the seasons. Preschool children develop new skills in a first-aid course and other activities. Nursery children have activities such as colour-themed weeks.

Protecting and supporting children

Our safeguarding concept focuses on wellbeing, prevention and attentive relationships in daily life. Children with individual needs and greater support needs receive help from the specialist educational support service of Feuchtwangen’s Protestant childcare settings.

Parents and our support association

Openness and trust underpin cooperation between families, the team and the provider. The parents’ council is elected each year, represents parents’ concerns, supports celebrations and activities, and is informed and consulted about significant changes.

The support association, founded in 2024, helps fund larger purchases and activities for preschool children, among other things. Together with the parents’ council, it also organises activities such as the Christmas market stall.