Comperative aspects

Group room equipment/arrangement

Games

Composition of the group

Kindergarten teachers

Custom and system of rules

Occupations/activities

Montessori kindergarten

The group room here was very aesthetically designed, each game had its own place, but the tables used for meals were circular and on these tables the children could play with various rules games. There are a lot of shelves in the group and in my opinion a little too many toys for the children. The play mat covers almost the entire group room, and carpets are laid on the floor everywhere, except for the tables.

Regarding the games, as I mentioned before, in my opinion there are too many in the group room. In principle, these are not traditional toys such as cars, dolls, etc., but mostly skills development games. Children would play with these for most of the day. Of course, there are cars and animal figures, but these are not the main toys of the children there.

A special feature of the kindergarten is that each group consists of children of mixed ages.

The group in whose life I participated for one week "included" two English-Hungarian kindergarten teachers and, if necessary, a pedagogical assistant also joined and sometimes there was a nanny. As far as I know, one English and one Hungarian preschool teacher is present in the other groups.

In my opinion, the customs and rules in this kindergarten are much stricter and more diverse than elsewhere. There is a rule made up for every situation, so to speak, which is followed with the children. Of course, this gives children a safe environment, that they are set within rules, but sometimes I felt that it could be too much for them.

The sessions were very varied and interesting for the children. What was new to me was that in the framework of one session, even poetry and storytelling, and active learning about the outside world, both with environmental and mathematical content, were included. Also, these were usually to quarter of an hour for twenty minutes minimum.

Traditional kindergarten (In this case I will compare my English and Hungary kindergarten practise place.)

The group room here was very aesthetically designed, each game had its own place, but the tables used for meals were circular and on these tables the children could play with various rules games. There are a lot of shelves in the group and in my opinion a little too many toys for the children. The play mat covers almost the entire group room, and carpets are laid on the floor everywhere, except for the tables.

In my Hungarian group, I think that the number of toys is nicely distributed in the group room. Of course, you can also find traditional games, but you can also play rules or constructive games. So here the games are more diverse and I noticed that the children can play here without forgetting themselves every time.

In this kindergarten, all groups are homogenous, so children of the same age stay in each group.

In this group and as I can remember in each group we can find two kindergarten teacher, a nanny and a pedagogical assistant, so I can say it's almost the same in this two kindergarten.

The system of customs and rules works very well and I think that the children also quickly accepted and follow the rules to this day. Each rule has a reason, I don't feel that it is as much for them as in other kindergartens.

In contrast to the other kindergarten, I can say that they took into account the individual characteristics and abilities of the children, so no activity lasted more than 10 minutes, and on average, one area of development was concentrated at a time. (This was most likely because I'm in a small group here.)