Work methods

Environmental and ecological education conducted by our caretakers with the use of interesting content that allows not only to acquire elementary knowledge in this field, but also teaches children respect for the surrounding world, awakening the need in them for its protection.
Teachers offer children opportunities to:

• observe and describe natural phenomena during walks and trips
• Enjoy experiences and experiments allowing children to get to know the world of nature more closely using various tools
• participate in activities aimed at environmental protection
• grow and care for plants in the rooms.

Language classes in the nursery take place 5 times a week. English is taught by a NATIVE SPEAKER, from whom children learn the language by employing all senses during play.
Classes are conducted using music and movement. Children perform physical exercises with elements of gymnastics, thereby strengthening their body as they acquire a foreign language. During classes, the “no Polish” principle applies, thereby creating an English-speaking environment. From context, the children learn about the meanings of the sounds they play with every day. Thanks to this, they learn quickly and easily.
Caretakers play specially designed CDs that ensure important, everyday contact with this language, thanks to which learning English is a part of every day.

Caregivers using play pedagogy enrich forms of group work with the help of colorful Klanza sheets, which gives children the opportunity to be active and engage in joint creation and experience spontaneous joy of creative group work.

Children’s favorite games include:

• SEA WAVE – one or more people are sitting on the sheet or lying down. The others fan their part of the sheet, making waves. Later, the children who walk on the sheet change. Then the others move the sheet making waves. Fun exercises that work together – integrate the group by pursuing a common goal, make it possible to establish contact and experience unity with the group.
• NAMES – children stand in a circle holding a sheet. The caretaker chooses the person to whom he or she wants to send the ball. The caretaker lists her name and the child’s name, e.g. “Dorota to Zosia” and by moving the sheet properly sends her a ball. Then the ball is sent further. The ball cannot fall to the ground.
• PARACHUTE – everyone simultaneously raises the sheet high up. The leader counts: once, twice and in three everyone runs under the sheet and grabs its edge on the opposite side.

Children build structures out of blocks, arrange blocks, build and destroy buildings out of blocks, put circles on a pyramid and match the appropriate shapes to the holes.
The purpose of manipulation and construction games is:

• rdevelopment of dexterity and coordination of movements
• improvement of hand work – fingers and wrists
• improving thinking and concentration processes
• exercise of patience and perseverance.

These classes are defined by various terms, such as role games, imitative, creative, seasons, learning about the cultures of other nations, playing in the kitchen corner and in the doll corner. The content of themed games enriches the activities of children in our nursery. A plot appears, then increasingly complex situations are recreated.

Fairytale therapy is simply therapy which uses fairytales. All children like to listen to fairytales, especially the youngest. Reading specific fairy tales can help a child in many difficult emotional situations, such as facing irrational fears or the first days of being in a nursery. These classes take place several times a week for each group.