Programs

  • Lunch Bunch
  • Mommy & Me - Monday mornings
  • Mr. Jim "The Science Guy"
  • What's cooking? with Miss Joan
  • Fitness Fun with Miss Cindy
  • Long Hill Fire Dept Visit
  • The Dental School
  • The Audubon
  • The Maritime Center
  • Danny the Magician
  • Mr. Jeff "The Other Science Guy"
  • Terramar Marine Biology
  • Critter Caravan
  • McGruff the Crime Dog
  • Summer Camp

Our programs offer your child the opportunity to interact with other children in an environment that is scaled to and planned for him or her. Your child is stimulated, not pressured, to ask questions, to think for himself, and to try out new ideas. The program is a flexible child centered one designed to satisfy the needs of the individual children within the group. Each session follows a routine or schedule that becomes familiar to the children.

Each day the children have an opportunity to participate in a wide variety of planned and spontaneous activities. Activities such as open-ended art experiences, science and cooking projects, blocks, dramatic play, pre-school readiness games, songs, finger plays and creative play are a part of each day.

Many of our activities will be classified as "play". Though we, as adults, look upon it as "play", the child's "play" is his "work". The children in our program are always learning and developing as they work with the materials provided. Therefore the play is "guided play" because the teachers have learning goals in mind as they plan the daily activities.

These preschool activities lay the foundation for future learning. It is important to remember that a child pursues his play as seriously as parents undertake their work. We encourage you to question and comment on the child's activities and to attempt at home to reinforce in as many ways as possible the interests that your child develops.