Pre-school education
Pre-school education
At St. Elisabeth's Kindergarten, we consider preschool education to be holistic and build on the children's world of experience. It begins as soon as the child enters kindergarten and offers different focuses and learning objectives according to age. In order to make the transition from our daycare center to school a smooth one for the preschool children, we offer a variety of preschool activities in the last year of kindergarten before they start school.
In preschool education, we encourage the children to explore and understand themselves and their environment with all their senses. In addition to promoting basic skills, it is important to us to encourage the children in their independence, self-confidence and self-esteem. This also enables them to grasp and master the new and unknown world of school. For us, school readiness means:
- Participating in a learning community
- Self-confidence
- Enjoyment
- Arouse curiosity
- Understanding tasks
- Language competence
- Creativity
- Gross and fine motor skills
- Mathematical skills
- Self-confidence
At the beginning of a new kindergarten year, the prospective school children are grouped together and meet regularly thereafter (two to four times a month). The purpose of these meetings is for the children to perceive themselves as future schoolchildren and as part of this group. Based on their interests, the children and teachers plan and carry out projects together. They learn to make decisions together with others, to stand up for themselves and their needs, and to develop frustration tolerance.
The children plan and organize their final activities together with the teachers, e.g. designing school bags, final excursion, farewell in the kindergarten and word service. In concrete terms, this means for our pedagogical activities in the daycare center that we design each preschool year individually with the children. In order to make the transition from kindergarten to elementary school a successful one, we rely on trusting cooperation with all parents and the teachers at the elementary school.