Hot lunch and meals
At SiO Kindergarten, we promote healthy eating habits through a varied, nutritious, and wholesome diet.Throughout the kindergarten day, we facilitate three meals where children, together with staff, experience a setting that offers great opportunities for learning in various areas, such as language development and interaction with other children and adults. Together with the home, we aim to help establish healthy eating habits from an early age.
SiO Kindergarten serves food in accordance with the dietary guidelines of the Norwegian Directorate of Health.
Many children enjoy their packed lunch. Therefore, one of the meals at our kindergarten is a brought-from-home lunchbox. SiO Kindergarten provides advice and tips on what a healthy lunchbox should contain.
All children at SiO Kindergarten are offered two meals per day – breakfast and a hot lunch. We receive hot lunches from MatiBox four days a week. On the fifth day, the kindergarten prepares the meal itself.
Vegetables and fruit are an essential part of the kindergarten’s diet and are served daily.
The life in SiO kindergarten
The days in SiO Kindergarten are adapted to the needs of the children. We believe child's play is the most important arena children have for learning, social development and development of identity. Therefore, much of the day with us is focused around children's play and children's feedback and participation.When the children arrive in the morning, we emphasize welcoming them and having a good start to the day. This is the time for quiet activities and conversations.We have varied activities for and with the children in kindergarten. Group activities with music, books, adventures, conversations and songs. We use drama groups, music classes, theatre and dance to learn different forms of expressing yourself. The children spend a lot of time in the kindergarten outside playground, or we go on trips and activities for exciting new experiences.
Cooperation with parents
In order for the child to have the best possible time with us, it is important to have a good and open dialogue with the parents. In addition to the daily dialogue we have at delivery and pickup, we have parent conversations and parent meetings each semester.
- The parent conversation you have with the educational leader of the group, where you talk about the child's everyday life and development.
- The parent meetings are for all the parents in the kindergarten and are about the content of the kindergarten as a whole.
Rules for pickup and fine
Kindergarten closes at 17.00. If you have nor picked up by this time, two employees will stay with the child until you arrive. There is a fine of 300,- per commenced half hour until the child is picked up.
Rules when your child is sick
When your child is sick, it must be home from kindergarten until it feels better. It is important that you notify the kindergarten, and especially important if your child has an infectious disease or infection. If your child becomes ill on the day you are due to take an exam, you can use our exam guarantee to help get supervision of your child.
Opening hours
We are open every weekday from 07:30 to 17:00.Almelia SiO Kindergarten is open from 07:00 to 17:00. Kindergartens are open during Christmas and Easter. You must notify your kindergarten if you wish to come to the kindergarten these days
- Christmas: Opening hours during Christmas are 08.30-16.00, Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve we are closed.
- Easter: At Easter we stay open until 13:00 the day before Maundy Thursday.
- In July, SIO kindergartens usually are closed in the weeks 27-30.
- SiO Kindergarten is closed on all Norwegian public holidays that occur on weekdays.
Planning days
We have five planning days each year. Two of them are at the middle of August, one in October, one in early January and the last day is straight after Easter. These days, kindergartens are closed, and staff use the time to plan, organize, and evaluate their work. You will be notified well in advance of when the planning days will be.
Traditions and celebrations
Throughout the year we have many pleasant traditions in our kindergartens. Santa's Party, Lucia, Easter Breakfast, Activity Day, 17th of May celebrations, carnivals and summer parties are common to most kindergartens. Some kindergartens have other traditions as well, such as celebrating UN Day or art exhibitions. Other traditions and celebrations the children in the group mark as a part of their beliefs and traditions are also highlighted in each kindergarten.
Clothing
The child must always have two extra change of clothes in the kindergarten, suited for the current time of the year. Also remember slippers or indoor shoes. Parents with children who wear diapers most bring diapers, wipes and ointments to the kindergarten. It is important to label all clothes and equipment with names so that you do not lose anything and we can find the owner of lost clothes and property.