Integration
Foreign language children
The Forest-Play-Group offers a wonderful
environment for children of a foreign mother tongue, in order to get an
initial contact with German language and to establish the basis for
future knowledge of the language. The team principally speaks
Swiss/German dialect to the children. If necessary in difficult
situations the team is fond to communicate in the child’s tongue,
depending on the type of language. Usually the understanding is
straightforward as the children coming to the Forest-Play-Group are in
an age of curiosity and appetite for knowledge and the rules and
sequences of events are self-evident and constant.
So far children with English, Italian, Turkish, Polish, Danish and
Swedish mother tongue have visited our Forest-Play-Group.
Children with special needs
Since the launch of the Forest-Play-Group "Reinacher Toddlers" we had
three children in this group with the Trisomie 21 disease. From the
start these kids needed some more care; partly full attendance. After
an individual familiarisation we want to achieve a reduction of this
special attendance and a full integration into the course of the
Forest-Play-Group’s events. This is made possible also by partial
funding of the Mosaik Foundation.