1. Children's awareness of healthy eating habits has increased. Children pay more attention to their choice of food, they know how to assess the size of their food portion adequately. 2. Children in kindergarten participate in movement activities throughout the lesson. In movement lessons, teachers use new methodologies, educational games and tools. 3. Kindergarten staff are motivated to work in the kindergarten, notice signs of fatigue in themselves and others. Management has found new ways to motivate the team.
Paide Sookure Kindergarten is located in the heart of Estonia. Paide Kindergarten has 11 groups, a total of 208 children. The children are aged 1.5-7. In one group there are children of the same age. There are 10 children in the kindergarten whose home language is not Estonian. There are also 5 children with special needs in the kindergarten, two of them have a support person. All children are equally involved in the activities. Two special pedagogues and a play therapist do additional activities in the kindergarten with children with development problems . The kindergarten also has two movement teachers who take care of movement and swimming activities and monitoring the children's movement habits. 22 pedagogues and 11 assistant teachers work in the kindergarten. The idea for the project grew out of a meeting of the health team created in the kindergarten, where three problems were mapped. Children's poor eating habits, the one-sidedness of the kindergarten menu, children's obesity and problems in physical activities, and teachers' mental fatigue and lack of motivation to participate in various activities. The goals of the project were also born from the main problems.