Farmer Braderup
Growing up with and learning from nature
Kindergarten & Nursery
in beautiful Braderup
between animals and flowerbeds
Learning and development on the farm
In the heart of Braderup, right next to the fields and not far from the heath and Wadden Sea, lies the Braderup farm kindergarten. Up to 32 children between the ages of 1 and 6 spend one of the most formative periods of their lives here, surrounded by chickens, goats, and small fields.
Even in the modern kindergarten building, the little ones feel right at home while learning, doing crafts and dancing.
Learn more about Buurenstair Braderup
What makes us so special?
The goal of our educational work at the farm kindergarten is to raise children's sensitivity to interacting with nature, to learn about and understand the cycle of life, to develop an understanding of the connections and interdependencies between humans and nature, and to learn to take responsibility for themselves and others.
We want to give children the knowledge they need to interact responsibly with nature, the environment, and a healthy diet, and provide inspiration for a sustainable lifestyle.
How do we achieve this? Animals and working in the flowerbeds are a natural part of our everyday kindergarten life.
UNSERE TIERE
The Buurenstair is home to dwarf sheep, goats, and chickens. They spend the day with the sheep in the meadow, visit the children at the playground, or wait on the terrace during lunch, hoping for something tasty to eat.
Our pastures border directly on the children's play area, so the children have the opportunity to playfully interact with the animals at any time, observe them in their natural habitat, and communicate with them. The children learn where eggs come from, what they feel like when they've just been laid, and experience how they can use sheep's wool, what it smells like, and what products are made from it. They see and try out traditional craft and artistic techniques, skills, and abilities. For example, the children can see firsthand the journey wool takes, from shearing to washing (in large tubs with plenty of soap and a lot of muscle power), candying, and felting.
They learn that animals are cared for, fed, and respected, that not all animals are the same, and they learn the necessary respect for them. The children have a wide variety of experiences interacting with animals. Animals appeal to children's emotions and can be helpful in balancing feelings, as they have a stabilizing effect on children's psyches.
Encounters with nature can take many different forms. Our farm garden, the fields, and the meadows offer a wide range of opportunities, expanding and enriching our wealth of experience. All children in the farm kindergarten—from our youngest children in the nursery to the preschoolers—cultivate a part of the farm garden. This allows them to experience the cycle of life, sow and tend their beds, and ultimately be rewarded with the harvest. But they also learn: If I don't take care of it, my little plant will wither too.
While preparing the fields, the children discover their physical abilities. Strength in digging and preparing the fields, endurance and sensitivity in sowing and tending, recognizing limits, and concentration are important skills that are developed here. The children become more self-confident and able to deal with failure and find their own solutions. They proudly present their harvest and process it into things like juice, jam, or oil—some of the treats even end up in their mouths.
Our goal is to help our children grow up healthy. A healthy, balanced diet is crucial to this. Proper eating habits learned early on help them maintain this throughout their lives.
At our kindergarten, the children receive a breakfast freshly prepared by our chefs. This follows a weekly rhythm, varying from cheese and quark, yogurt, sausage, muesli, eggs, and a sweet breakfast with homemade jam. Lunch is also freshly prepared daily. We adhere to the findings and quality standards of the German Nutrition Society.
The vegetables harvested by the children are used for meals; they clean and cut them up, then bring them to the kitchen for preparation. This gives the children a pleasurable and sensory experience of food. Homemade jam made from the fruit they harvest is served for breakfast, and our tomatoes and cucumbers are sliced or sliced and eaten throughout the day as snacks. Occasionally, we hold a children's cooking day, where small groups prepare lunch together with our chefs.
The children experience the changing seasons firsthand in our farm kindergarten. By learning about, shaping, and observing the agricultural processes in the garden beds, they actively experience the processes and changes in the seasonal cycle of nature.
By sowing, planting, cultivating, harvesting and processing, you will discover:
What does nature do in spring, summer, autumn and winter?
What tasks await people in each season?
Where and how do animals live, how do they protect themselves during the cold season, how can I help them?
Festivals give children additional temporal orientation in the annual cycle.
At the beginning of each year, we plan seasonal celebrations such as Carnival, Easter, the M.-T. Buchholz Festival, the Autumn Festival, and the Christmas party.
The annual Sylt festivals such as Biikebrennen and Petritanz are maintained and thus tradition is preserved.
Parental support in preparation, planning and implementation is always welcome!
Daycare facilities have an educational mandate that is laid down in the respective laws and implementing regulations.
The aim is to promote the child's development into a self-responsible and socially capable personality, as well as willingness and competence to learn.
We understand education as an activity of acquisition through which people form a picture of the world. This understanding characterizes education as a lifelong learning process.
The Wenningstedt-Braderup daycare center offers space for a total of 80 children.
In the kindergarten, we have created spaces for development with three groups of 20 children each, aged between 3 and 6 years.
The children's nursery, on the other hand, has space in the Buurenstair for two groups of 10 little ones each, from the first completed year of life.
Core care time: 7:30 AM to 14:30 PM.
Additionally, there is the option to book extra childcare time:
Off-peak hours “Afternoon”: 14:30 pm - 16:00 pm
For parents who need to drop off their child earlier, an additional time from 7.00:7.30 a.m. to XNUMX:XNUMX a.m. can be contractually agreed.
Care times can be changed at any time after prior consultation with the kindergarten management or the provider and written notification.
Holidays
Our kindergarten will be closed during the Christmas and New Year's holidays. The Friday after Himmeltag is also designated as a closing day. Our daycare center will be closed on this day.
Care costs
The care costs are set out in the fee schedule of the municipality of Wenningstedt-Braderup and can be staggered upon application, depending on the family situation (social scale) and/or taking into account the number of children cared for in the kindergarten (sibling discount).
Would you like to enroll your child at the Wenningstedt-Braderup Farm Kindergarten? Or would you like to inform us of a change?
You can find the appropriate form here.
Farm kindergarten Braderup
M.-T. Buchholz engraving
25996 Wenningstedt-Braderup
Phone: + 49 4651 / 41335
Director: Nadine Jahrmarkt
Carrier:
Municipality of Wenningstedt-Braderup
Strandstrasse 25
25996 Wenningstedt-Braderup