Criteria

The volunteers should have fun dealing with children between 0-6 years.

There are a lot of foreign children or children with background of migration at the kindergarden Eli-sabethenHeim. At the institution it is considered and used to be a chance, to get to know the diffe-rentness and the different cultures and to face this with regard and acceptance.
Because of the hosting of european volunteers it is possible to give the children at the kindergarden a further understanding of the european idea. The children are able to collect further experiences and improove their knowledge through the contact to a volunteer from a foreign country, in terms of intercultural learning.
The volunteers get the chance to integrate themselves with their most different abilities and interest into the community with the children. Also they are able to gain diverse experiences and to use them. On the one side the volunteers should take part and create the daily routine; on the other side they should integrate themselves with all their abilities and talents. During the freeplay time they are able to get in contact with the individual child or small groups of children and so they can pay attention to the children in an intense way. During the morning play they sample acitivities together with the focus on cooperation. Here will be space for the volunteers to bring in songs, games, dances, fairy tales, customs etc. from their home country.
Because of the orientation on the circle of the year with all the celebrations and religous fiests like thanks giving, St. Martin, St. Nikolaus, Advent..., they get to know a lot about Germany, german culture, values, norms and german pedagogic; and also german customs and traditions.
In the afternoon age specific groups with different projects take place for example early musical education, english play lesson, cooking group; weekly projects like gymnastic, trips, children confer-rence, or constant offers like the monthly forrest days or the visits of the city library.
Also they get the chance to get to know and to master the dealings with difficult children and also children in difficult family-situations.
The pedagogic concept of the kindergarden includes also the individual integration of handicapped children, which means a further field of experiences for the volunteers.
The volunteers are part of the team, they take part in all team-sessions, arrangements, analyses and advanced education for the team. Initiative of the volunteers like suggestions for activities, interior decoration, own projects are desired and are supported by the staff.
Activities in which the volunteers are involved:
- talking to the children
- playing with the children in different rooms (rule-plays, table-plays, gymnastics-room..)
- playing in the garden (games with the ball, ground-games, table-tennis..)
- domestic work: tidying the room of the group, cloakroom
- taking part in arrangements-talks, team-sessions
- taking part in specific offers with the children (handicraft, singing, gymnastics, listening and
playing of fary tales)
- independent transaction of offers with the children but under guidance of an educator
- a lot of space for the own initiative of the volunteers for the children (depending on abilities e.g.
singing songs, domestic work, language offers, painting, sports, making pottery, rhythmic, dan-
cing...)
The kindergarden ElisabethenHeim is a full-time institution and it is open daily from 7:15 am to 4:30 pm. Because the children spend a lot of time at the institution, the pedagogic concept focuses on the idea of care close to the family.
The daily routine is the following:
- free play (in different rooms, open offers like kneating, handicrafting, painting with fingers, flowing
breakfast...)
- morning play (see above)
- playing outside
- lunch together
- age specific groups (for special needs)

The volunteers should have fun dealing with children between 0-6 years. A free project place will be published through the eurodesk partner "Jugendbildungsstätte Unterfranken". We are open to work with each partner