Pedagogical Concept: Within a very harmonical athmosphere we are imparting enough freedom with

1. In our kindergarten there are: 2 core-groups that are of mixed age (3 to 6-year-old children). Each group consists of 25 children at maximum. Our Team: Head of the kindergarten: Manuela VALECZ Nursery School Trainers: Irene STEINBAUER Angelika HACKER Nursery School Assistants: Barbara Hadl, Lydia Krebs, Karin Stiegler Cleaning Staff: Andrea Orthaber Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 7.00 am to 1.00 pm €120.- 7.00 am to 3.00 pm €160.- 7.00 am to 5.00 pm €200.- phone and fax: +433136/81001 Our kindergarten is closed during official school holidays, however, we do have opened individually chosen autonomous school-holidays. Summer opening hours: 4 weeks after the beginning of the official summer school holidays Bus/Transport: € 30.- per month Ms. Pölzl: +43664/3452402 • Pedagogical Concept: • Within a very harmonical athmosphere • we are imparting enough freedom with • cearly given boarders to our children. • In our„university-like“ course program we • train: • self-competence • social competence • self-responsibility • autonomy • assuming responsibility for the environment and fellow men • creativity • professional competence • computer competence • acquiring theoretical and practical Know-How • actualising and applying emotional and social encouragement, valuation • noticing and forming social processes • experiencing relationships sensitively; based on a partner-ship • Main Focus: • Indoor-/ Outdoor – Sports • action-field: garden • Eutonie • ICT – Information and Communication Technology • singing bowl-massage from Tibet • and meditation • chemistry lab - kitchen • English flies through the kindergarten • forest-explorations • Yoga • Jeux Dramatiques • experiments • story telling • accumulation of kindergarten and parents‘ house • EU-projects • language aid • mathematical-logical thinking • Emotional Intelligence • Phonology and Literacy • Because of giving the children • enough space to decide on their own, • they learn sense their own needs • and aquire autonomy, too. • Action-Field Garden: • 1000 m² of land let the children • experience the nature with all senses. • In summer Matsch- und water games and forest-explorations, field days • harvesting and preserving fruits • sleding and building snowman in winter

2. Kindergarten Launegg 8502 Lannach, Launeggstraße 71 Tel. 03136/81001 kiga-launegg@aon.at www.lannach.at/kindergarten • Exeptences – Awards: • 2002 awarded to be one of the best kindergarten in the country published in „NEWS“ (famous AUT magazine) EQ-Award • 2003 performance at „Musikantenstadl“ (famous Austrain TV-show) Austrian Children‘s Rights Award • 2005 EQ-Award Education partnership – „KinderLeben“ Styrian Project „self-development through painting“ • 2007 International Book Day – Education-Award from Romania • 2008 Media Pedagogy-Award of BMUKK • „TrauDi“ – special award • 1st rank „eTwinning National“ and • granting of the Europ. Seal of Quality • Project presentation in the EU – • reference book of life-time-learning • Certificate for creative proficiency at • the Int. Festival in Bulgaria • 2009 eTwinning Project for the month January www.lannach.at/kindergarten • kiga-launegg@aon.at EU-PROJEKTE: Learning from a distance, learning from each other Travelling with our eStory