Pilke nature-oriented daycare centre Taikaniitty
Kastepisarat (1-3y.) tel. 040 710 7794
Poutapilvet (4-5y.) tel. 040 457 0654
The client fee as its highest is 341 €/month. Service voucher and daycare hours may affect to the fee.
Daisy is our communication and information channel between home and daycare. We use Daisy to communicate, for example, about events and news from the daycare.
Families use Daisy to send us information such as childcare bookings and absence notifications.
Pilke Taikaniitty is a private service voucher daycare centre. Apply for a service voucher on the website of the City of Ylivieska. Please fill Pilke’s daycare application form.
You can apply at any time, and you can get started quickly!
Fill in and submit the application form. No attachments are required and the application is not yet binding. You can also queue your application for a day care.
You will be contacted within 2 working days and we will agree on how to proceed.
Taikaniitty is an At Home in Nature daycare centre for 28 children in Pyörreperä, Ylivieska
The nature-oriented daycare centre Taikaniitty provides early childhood education and care for children aged 1–5 years. We offer safe and child-centred early education in a versatile, homelike environment that enables learning with all senses. The children get to wonder, explore and observe their surroundings in interaction with the educators.
The At Home in Nature operation involves participating in unhurried activities, making nature trips three times a week and playing in nature without manufactured toys. We spend several hours outdoors every day, and many of our educational activities take place in the yard or the forest. In the daycare centre yard, the children have the opportunity to participate in designing the play activities and environment. We have a small vegetable garden, and we make soil for the yard plants from our kitchen waste. Our childcarers have completed environment educator studies, and they provide the children with exciting experiences, such as outdoor mealtimes and naps in the yard lean-to or in hammocks in a forest.
Taikaniitty has been awarded with the Finnish Outdoor Association’s Metsämörri quality label and the Flavour Alphabet Diploma. Read more about the Flavour Alphabet here (in Finnish).
Small group activities
Our small group and At Home in Nature activities increase the interaction among the children and between the children and the educators. Everyday pedagogy is an essential part of the unhurried days at the daycare centre. We engage in nature activities in small groups, and the daycare centre has been granted permission to use the neighbouring unoccupied yard as a place to observe natural phenomena.
Children aged 1–2 years spend unhurried everyday life in their own small group. Intimacy and storytelling activities are important for the youngest children at the daycare centre, and we ensure that they always have a safe lap to sit on, if needed. Our everyday operation provides them with opportunities for independent activities and self-initiative both indoors and outdoors. As manual skills are important for all children, we allow 1–2-year-olds, too, to participate in handicraft activities under our educators’ instruction. Our outdoor activities provide the youngest group with the opportunity to walk and move independently, and we practise moving in nature in both small groups and with the older children.
Children aged 3 years are already familiar with the everyday routines. They build puzzles enthusiastically and develop their manual skills through various everyday activities. The energetic children also play outdoors and participate in forest trips eagerly. They sometimes participate in exciting trips to the local recycling point. However, for a three-year-old, a good day at daycare might sometimes still require more personal time and space. In that case, our flexible educators adapt the activities taking account of the children’s needs.
Children aged 4–5 years show example for the younger children in various activities, such as good table manners and waste sorting. These skilful learners engage in long-lasting play, and they can already come up with their own games in the yard and during forest trips. With the older children, we sometimes spend the mealtime in the forest and take a nap in hammocks. In the daycare centre yard, we utilise waste materials in games based on the children’s ideas. The imaginative children turn the treasures they have found in the forest, nature or the recycling point into magnificent pieces of art.
84100 YLIVIESKA Suomi
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Please contact and visit us to take a peek at the facilities and see the daily routine and activities at the day-care centre; We will get to know each other, answer your questions, and explain how to apply for and start day-care.
Or you can always send the Pilke application form. We will get back to you in 2 days, and arrange a tour!
Care and education, hand in hand
Our task is to create conditions in which children can not only learn facts and skills, but also prepare to face the big wide world with heart and kindness.
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Welcome to Pilke early childhood education! Tips for parents from the good day makers.
Example of the daily routine at daycare
6–7
Daycare centre doors open. Welcome! We start the day with a hug and have a chat. Then we gradually start to play.
8–8.30
Breakfast
8.30–11
Small group activities indoors and outdoors.
n. 11.15
Lunch, followed by a rest. Some of the children sleep or rest while the others go outside. After the rest, it’s time for quiet play and activities.
n. 14.00
Snack
14.30
Play, small group activities and outdoor activities.
17–18
The daycare centre doors close. Thank you for today and see you tomorrow!
Welcome to our daycare center!
You can fill out a daycare application at any time. The application is not binding. We will contact you within 2 working days.
Apply for Pilke daycare!Would you like to apply for a daycare place?
You can fill out an application quickly and easily online, and applications are not binding. You can also apply to be put on a waiting list for a daycare centre. We will contact you within 2 working days and agree on what to do next.
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I will be happy to answer any questions regarding our day-care centre; introduction visits, availability, applications, customer agreements and their amendments, invoicing, customer feedback, and so on.
Manager Jenni Jyrinki
Tel. 040 710 7787
jenni.jyrinki@pilkepaivakodit.fi
Vesalantie 10
84100 Ylivieska