Category: Vorschularbeit bilingual

Learning English in our Vocabulary Cinema

The children experience the Vocabulary Cinema as a special highlight. The atmosphere helps them to concentrate and engage with the content. With movements, repetitions, and simple prompts, they are actively involved and can react directly. The children get confidence, participate with increasing self-assurance, and experience themselves as part of the community.

Planting season in spring: First experiences with nature

The planting season in spring is one focus of our educational activities, inviting all children to wonder and explore nature. They discover playfully how tiny seeds transform into something living. The planting season offers them the opportunity to experience nature with all their senses.

Going to school! – First insights into school life

The children of the “Mice” group visited the dreieins Elementary School several times as part of a cooperation project and took part in lessons with class 1a. They learned letters, first math tasks, and got to know school life. The trial lessons were very enjoyable for the children and supported their excitement for starting school in the summer.

Multi-step learning activity

With a multi-step learning activity, the children explored the topic of “plants and growth.” So they had practical experience and developed a basic understanding of growth processes. Multi-step tasks and procedural sequences are activities composed of several subtasks and require a structured approach. These are important and fundamental basis for starting school.

Easter Riddle – An exciting Easter basket hunt

The children of the “Mice Group” received a mysterious letter from the Easter Bunny, who had watched them making their Easter baskets. He was so impressed that he came up with something very special. During the night, he secretly filled and hid the baskets. To find them, the children had to solve a riddle.

Springtime and Easter celebrations in our kindergarten

In the preschool group “Mice”, Easter is celebrated together with the children in a holistic project. Over a longer period, they engage with this theme creatively, linguistically, and practically. All activities offer diverse opportunities to actively participate, bringing in their own ideas, and experiencing Easter with all their senses.

Walking safely: Getting ready for the way to school

The children in the Mice Group are getting ready to start school. To prepare, we talked together about their future routes to school and practiced important traffic rules for excursions and road safety. Then, during a walk to elementary schools in our area, we explored the routes and practiced staying safe in real-life traffic situations.

Project: Body and Senses – How does breathing work?

Our “Body and Senses” project leads preschool children to the human body. They learn about the structure and function of the human lungs, an organ that enables breathing. An experiment makes this abstract biological process visible and physically tangible for the children.

Fragrant Letters – A Sensory Adventure with Scents

As part of the “Body and Senses” project, the children explored their sense of smell. The aim was to consciously perceive sensory experiences, describe them verbally, and process them creatively. The project allowed the children to have holistic experiences with all their senses.

On the construction site – Creative design with geometric shapes

The careers project introduced the Mice Group to the world of construction sites. They learned about tasks, work processes, and different pieces of equipment and machines, and geometric shapes like circle, rectangle, and triangle. The children also contributed many of their own observations and experiences.