Dear young explorers
and adventurers

In our LzE playgroup we explore the wonders of nature, learn in a playful way with a focus on the right brain, get some fresh air and let off steam in a safe environment. We would love to create unforgettable memories with your children too.

“Help me do it myself”
- Maria Montessori

Offer and activities

On cozy and varied mornings, your children from 2½ years old practice social behavior and develop their personality through free and organized play in a group: ‍‍

Registration

Price:
‍ sFr 500 per semester and two mornings of your choice per week

Monday 8:45 a.m. – 11:00 a.m
Wednesday 8:45 a.m. – 11:00 a.m
Friday 9:15 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. (forest)

Craft
Encourages your children's creativity, stimulates their imagination and challenges them to concentrate on a task. Crafting develops your children's fine motor skills and strengthens their self-confidence at the same time.

To sing
‍Promotes language development.

To paint
On the LzE painting wall, your children can let their creativity run wild using Arno Stern's method.

‍Free play for your children's emotional and social development. Free play allows your children to express their feelings, practice conflict resolution and develop social skills.

Right hemisphere
The right hemisphere controls creative thinking (imagination, visualization, memorization, etc.). With various exercises, your children can immerse themselves in the world of mathematics and music in a playful way and have contact with at least two foreign languages before they reach kindergarten age.

Discover nature
‍During regular visits to the forest and farm, the children learn about nature and farm animals as well as plant. Through this, they develop a sense of treating nature respectfully.

Book world Reading picture books aloud promotes your children's cognitive development. It contributes to language development and thus expands their communication skills.

The start in the LzE playgroup

1

We give your children plenty of time to detach themselves from their mother/father. You can learn this in the playgroup and don't have to already be able to do it. This relieves the burden on many parents and relaxes the replacement process.

2

If the mother/father has to stay at the beginning (if the child cannot get away), she may (if possible) stay in the back area. Under no circumstances should parents bring the child to playgroup with the remark, "I'll stay for five minutes and then I'll leave." This puts the child under pressure because no child of this age has a sense of time.

3

We ask that you pick up the children on time. The playgroup leader must be able to rely on the parents. If, in exceptional cases, a child is picked up later, we ask you to inform us in advance.

The child is free and can decide for themselves what they want to play. Children learn to move in our society through rules and boundaries. The offspring learn to take responsibility and treat others with consideration and respect. We create opportunities to immerse yourself in the worlds of languages, mathematics and music in a playful way and with all your senses, as well as to experience nature lovingly.

teachers

Our teachers

Our immersion learning team is made up of dedicated teachers who are passionate about providing our learning partners with a unique and engaging learning experience.

Yvonne Schindler

Kindergarten

My motivation is to enable the children in our LzE model to find their fire (again)...What am I “burning” for? What am I REALLY interested in? Where do I want to deepen myself, immerse myself? How can I with JOY and learn ease?

Corinne Bussinger

Forest accompaniment

My motivation is to support a place of learning that is breaking new ground. I love being with children and accompanying them on their journey.

Birgid Kessler-Wehinger

Forest accompaniment

Our children do not inherit this world from us. We borrowed it from them (Indian proverb). Accompanying children in nature is a matter of the heart.

Galina Ryazantseva

LzE management

The individual development of potential, the dissolution of self-imposed blockages, the REMEMBERING of one‘s own abilities is my strongest motivation.

Jelena Hasanova

LzE management

The individual development of potential, the dissolution of self-imposed blockages, the REMEMBERING of one‘s own abilities is my strongest motivation.

“Help me do it myself”

How we work

My name is Yvonne “Yv” Schindler, mother of three wonderful children. I live in the countryside and am very close to nature and animals. For around 20 years I have been accompanying children with my motto “Help me to do it myself” (by Maria Montessori). In our LzE playgroup, the focus is on experiencing and discovering. At LzE we call this “immersion”. We attach particular importance to promoting children's independence. This is an important step on the way to successfully entering kindergarten. Literally: "Help me do it myself. Show me how to do it. Don't do it for me. I can and want to do it alone. Have patience to understand my ways. They may be longer, perhaps I need more time , because I want to make several attempts. Allow myself to make mistakes and efforts - because I can learn from them." - Maria Montessori
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