kuutamopolku daycare center
Kuutamopolku is one of 27 daycare
centers run by the city and council of Porvoo. Porvoo is a small town located
50 kilometers east of Helsinki. Kuutamopolku means “moon path”.
We have 66 children and 10 staff
members in three different groups. Two of these groups are only for the
preschool aged children (they are 5 to 6 years old) and one is for siblings and
they are between 1 and 5 years old.
Our two pre-school groups have 20 and
24 children in their classes and the third group has 21 children at the
present. There are three staff members working in two of the groups and four in
one of them. Most of the time we have a student or other trainee working with
us.
The working methods of our pre-school
are based on certain rights that every child should have:
Right to play - play is a very
important part of the activities of the day and there should be enough time and
space for that.
Right to have safe limits to try new
things and skills.
Right to be in a daycare centre where
the co-operation between all partners (parents, teachers and children) works
well.
Right to have fun!
Right to think!
Normal weekly activities include
forest trips (exploring nature), gym, art & crafts and music.We encourage
the children to look after the environment by recycling, taking care of their
toys and not wasting.
Our daycare
center is in the same building as Huhtinen primary school (classes 1- 6).
Here
are photos of our playground.
Here is our
Comenius wall and what we have done so far (in November) with the children.
The
children themselves have asked for the information about the three countries
that we have on the wall
at the moment.
Here are
photos of the hallway of our daycare center.
General
photos of the ”class rooms”.
Pre- school
children hard at work learning flags.
Our boss
teaching belly dancing to the pre- school kids.
