Departments

Each department with different staff, skills and age groups.

4 departments

Departments are called after fruits from the Norwegian forests. We have multemyra (cloud berry), jordbær (straw berry), blåbær (blue berry) and tyttebær (lingon berry).

Explore the departments

Transitions between groups

To create predictability and stability we have divided the departments into age groups.

We experience that the age division gives the groups good opportunities to give the children experiences and activities adjusted to their development and needs.

Children start at Multemyra or Jordbær and they will move to next group the August after they have turned 2 years old. At Blåbær they stay for 2 years until they go to Tyttebær for the 2 last years in the kindergarten.

The departments

Multemyra

Maximum group size: 9
Age group: 1-2
Staff members: 3
Phone number: +47 95 42 67 98

What we do at Multemyra

We believe that small groups of children are important when starting up in the kindergarten to create a soft start and a safe adaption period. The introduction to a new life outside family and home is a big transition for the children.

The two departments cooperate closely and they will have age divided groups across the departments to secure the quality of the activities to all children in the groups.

For the youngest toddlers, the most important topics to work with are:

Create safe attachment to staff
Create relationship with peers
Start to understand basic social skills
Help with regulation of feelings and emotions
Can explore the world with all senses and the whole body
Introduction to playing

The routines of the department:

After arriving to the kindergarten, maybe had breakfast and then some playing, the children go outside together or have group activities in divided age groups.

One permanent day of the week is also a hiking day. We have plenty of places just outside the kindergarten to visit.

After coming in there is a gathering with singing and fairytales.

For lunch, there is a hot meal and then the children go to sleep inside on mattresses or outside in a pram.

After waking up there is playing outside or inside and another meal at 14.30 where sandwiches are prepared.

Jordbærenga

Maximum group size: 8
Age group: 1-2
Staff members: 3
Phone number: +47 954 28 187

What we do at Jordbærenga

The two departments cooperate closely and they will have age divided groups across the departments to secure the quality of the activities to all children in the groups.

For the youngest toddlers, the most important topics to work with are:

Create safe attachment to staff
Create relationship with peers
Start to understand basic social skills
Help with regulation of feelings and emotions
Can explore the world with all senses and the whole body
Introduction to playing

The routines of the department:

After arriving to the kindergarten, maybe had breakfast and then some playing, the children go outside together or have group activities in divided age groups.

One permanent day of the week is also a hiking day. We have plenty of places just outside the kindergarten to visit.

After coming in there is a gathering with singing and fairytales.

For lunch, there is a hot meal and then the children go to sleep inside on mattresses or outside in a pram.

After waking up there is playing outside or inside and another meal at 14.30 where sandwiches are prepared.

Blåbær

Maximum group size: 15
Age group: 2-3
Staff members: 3
Phone number: +47 954 27 657

What we do at Blåbærtua

Going to Blåbærtua is a new step into a bigger world. There are more children and often different staff. They move with a lot of their peers and take the experiences with them to the next level.

It is a time for focus on:

Language development
Playing skills and playing TOGETHER
Developing more independence in routines
Acknowledge feelings and help regulate
Introductions to more songs, books and fairytales
To express themselves in a group
To experience and learn about inclusion
To express own boundaries

Routines on the department:

Arriving to the kindergarten and start playing with the peers. About 09.30 there will be different activities in groups.

One of the days will be a hiking day where we explore the surroundings in the forest at the beach.
Sometimes we will use the Gym.

Before lunch there will be a gathering with a joint focus and the children participation.

At lunch, there is served a hot meal and they are seated in groups around the table.

After lunch, some will sleep inside, while the rest of the groups will go outside for playing.

At 14.30 we usually go inside for the second meal with sandwiches, before more playing inside or outside before parents arrive to pick up.

Tyttebærtua

Maximum group size: 24
Age group: 4-5
Staff members: 5
Phone number: +47 95 42 93 31

What we do at Tyttebærtua

Starting on the last period of kindergarten life the children move to the top floor. Here is the world adjusted to prepare for the transition to school. But before we let them slip out of our gate, we want them to have experience with:

Exploring a variety of activities to find out what I can master and enjoy the most
More language preparation including language groups
To handle conflict with the peers
To encourage the curiosity of learning new stuff
To enhance the self-esteem and the self confidence
Guidance and support to self-regulation
Learn about self-assertion and own boundaries
To handle resistant to create resilience
To develop advance playing skills
Get experience with letters, mathematical concepts and numbers.
More advance books and fairytales
Awareness of sustainable development in the world
To experience the use of digital tools

Routines on the department:

Arriving to the kindergarten and start playing with the peers. About 09.30 there will be different activities in groups.

One of the days will be a hiking day where we explore the surroundings in the forest at the beach.
All children will visit the Gym during the week.

Before lunch there will be a gathering for all children with different topics that they are working with.