Apple Montessori (Mahwah)

Apple offers a Montessori education for your child from infant to elementary school (age 6 weeks to 6 years). Located in the original Mahwah school it has beautiful classrooms, a gym and playgrounds.

The offer an arrange of times and days from full time school + day care to half days. They also offer Fastrack, Dance and Summer camp.

While in the Preschool program, your young child, from the age of two to five years old, the Kindergarten year, will begin the “approach to learning program.” The Preschool classroom is adapted to the developmental needs of each child, providing a variety of choices that engage the child’s natural curiosity and intellect. Activities emphasize the process of discovery, enabling each child to explore the world through multi-sensory materials. The Preschool Curriculum includes the following areas:

• Practical Life focuses on daily living activities that help develop a sense of accomplishment and self-esteem.
• Sensorial materials encourage children to use their five senses to develop classification and discrimination skills.
• Science & Geography create opportunities to explore and develop concrete foundations for understanding the world.
• Mathematics provides a hands-on approach to number concepts, quantity and operations.
• Language is designed to give children a firm grounding in perceptual-motor, pre-reading, and pre-writing readiness skills. Your child will progress through various stages to the ultimate goal of establishing the skills necessary for success in reading and writing.
• Art & Music develop the child’s creativity and sense of beauty through expressive use of materials and activities.

A key principal of the Preschool Program is the multi-age classroom. We know that children progress at different rates in different areas. Providing a two to five year span of materials and activities allows each child to work at the pace and level best suited for their individual interests and abilities and lets each child find peers with whom the child can share his or her interests. The younger children have role models in the older children, and the older children acquire additional confidence by being the classroom elders. “Teaching” or caring for a younger child is an excellent way to consolidate one’s own learning. The Kindergarten children take great pride in being the leaders of the classroom!

Materials used in the Preschool program bring abstract principles to life. There are objects to sort and sequence, beads to add or subtract, letters to touch and trace, and real dishes to wash. The children engage in meaningful activities not just pretend ones. They practice tying their own shoes and hanging their own coats. They peel, chop, and serve carrots or apples instead of “playing” with plastic imitations. Good manners and social interactions are very much a part of each activity because the Montessori Preschool classroom is a mini-society that belongs to the children.

The Preschool program is offered as either a half day or a full day program. A half day session will be from 8:30 to 11:30 AM or from 12:30 to 3:30 PM. The full day program runs from 8:30 to 3:30. The children play outside (weather permitting) in the morning, after lunch, and again in the afternoon. Kindergarten aged children stay indoors in the morning for reading group rather than play outside. Younger children nap after lunch instead of going outside but are in the playground later in the afternoon. Full day children may bring a lunch from home or you may choose to purchase a hot meal from the independent catering company that provides this service to our students.

The Goddard School

Franchise day care center with good reputation.
Address: 334 Spook Rock Road · Airmont, NY 10901
Phone: (845) 368-3773
Total Capacity: 118

Rockland County YMCA

http://www.rocklandymca.org

Peace Through Play

Montessori based preschool with a passion for peace (and yoga!). Located on 2 Acres of Tree-lined/Wooded Area.

Ages 2.9 - 5

Hours 7:30am - 6pm

8 Amber Ridge Road
Chestnut Ridge, N.Y. 10977
(845) 356-8746
www.peacethroughplay.com

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