We give your child creative freedom and encourage them early on in their development. We open up a variety of approaches through which children understand connections and grasp the world as a whole.
Amos Comenius Day Care Centre
About us
Our Concept
A consistent daily routine creates reliability and a good rhythm, helping children to gain confidence. Our mixed-age groups enable children to experience diversity as something natural, learn from each other and take on responsibility. We ensure a balanced mix of creative freedom and targeted learning opportunities. Whether it's sport, music, dance, experimentation, creative design, English, stories, songs, rhymes or number games – we open up a variety of approaches through which children understand connections and grasp the world as a whole.
An important part of our daily routine is spending time outdoors. Here, the children can run around, climb, balance or simply relax. And thanks to mud trousers, no weather can keep us from being outside.
Our Offers
We offer English integrated into everyday life in mixed-age groups. Children aged four and above can also sing in our nursery choir. In addition, the children regularly elect a children's council, which is actively involved in decision-making. This allows them to experience co-determination, learn to express their own wishes and learn early on that their voice counts.
Expert partners support us in addressing the children's interests, strengthening their curiosity and giving them insights into nature, culture, community and exercise.
Cooperations
Pflanzgarten School garden
We regularly visit the Francke Foundations' Pflanzgarten with the preschool children for environmental education activities.
DetailsFoundations' Chaplain
On certain occasions during the church year, the foundation's pastor visits the nursery school, during Advent, at Christmas and Easter, at Pentecost, on Thanksgiving Day and on St. Martin's Day. The preschool children learn in a playful way about the background to these holidays.
DetailsRobert Koch swimming pool
A partnership with the Robert Koch swimming pool enables children to obtain the DLRG »Seepferdchen« swimming badge.
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Why are we called Amos Comenius?
Amos Comenius (1592–1670) is one of the most famous educators. He was the first to come up with the idea of educating children outside the home, the prototype of the kindergarten. He saw schools as ‘workshops of humanity’ where everyone should be taught everything. He understood education not only as the accumulation of knowledge, but as the goal of learning to learn. His approaches influenced August Hermann Francke's educational reforms, which are still evident in the school and education system today.
Our groups
The Children of the Forest
On earth there are high mountains, deep valleys, lofty hills, hollow caves, flat fields, shady forests.
Amos Comenius: Orbis Sensualium Pictus – VIII. Terra
From the seed grows the plant. The plant becomes a shrub, the shrub becomes a tree. The tree is sustained by its roots. From the roots rises the trunk. The trunk divides into branches and green twigs, which become leaves.
Amos Comenius: Orbis Sensualium Pictus – XII. Arbor
The Children of the Heaven
The heavens revolve and revolve around the Earth, which stands in the middle.
The sun, wherever it may be, always shines, even when clouds rob us of it, and with its rays it creates light, the light of day. Opposite this is darkness, hence night. At night, the moon shines and the stars twinkle and sparkle. In the evening there is twilight; in the morning, dawn and daybreak.
Amos Comenius: Orbis Sensualium Pictus – III. Coelum
The Children of the Animals
The animal lives, feels, moves, grows, feeds, stands, sits, lies down, or walks.
Amos Comenius: Orbis Sensualium Pictus – XVIII. Animalia et primùm Aves.
The dog with its puppy is a guardian of the house. The cat cleans the house of mice; so does the mousetrap. The squirrel, the monkey and the guenon are kept in the house for pleasure.
Amos Comenius: Orbis Sensualium Pictus – XXV. Quadrupedia et primùm Domestica
The Children of the Sea
The water springs from the well, rushes down the stream, flows in the brook, stands in the lake, flows in the river, swirls in the eddy; it creates swamps. The river has banks. The sea creates shores, bays, promontories, islands, peninsulas, straits, and has rocky cliffs.
Amos Comenius: Orbis Sensualium Pictus – VI. Aqua
Our Rooms
Our nursery uses rooms on the ground floor and first floor of a building on Voßstraße that was completely renovated in 2005. The groups each have their own area with a children's kitchen, sanitary facilities and cloakroom. We also have various rooms for creative activities:
- The Klexraum is a painting room where children can enjoy complete freedom to paint: free painting on sheet after sheet, using various techniques without interpretation or instruction. On Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 10 a.m., the Klexraum is open and waiting for enthusiastic painters aged 4-6. Creative activities and crafts are also carried out together with the teacher.
- A movement room in the basement of the building invites children to try out new movements. We use sports equipment based on the concept developed by movement educator Elfriede Hengstenberg. Children learn about their own movement possibilities and playfully discover how to assess their own abilities.
- In the music and theatre room in the basement of the building, children can gain their first musical and acting experiences and rehearse small performances together. We also use the room as a sports room.
We use our large garden in all weathers. Children from the Montessori Kinderhaus and the August Hermann Francke after-school care centre can also be found in the garden.
For Parents
Projects
Toy-free time
A period in nursery without play materials such as building blocks, dolls, Lego, pegboard games and lots of other things – will it work? We're going to try it out again this year for a few weeks.
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care time:
Monday–Friday 6:30a.m. – 5:00p.m.
