Preschool

Planting the seeds of learning: Infant to Kindergarten.

The importance of Early Childhood Development

Our research-based curriculum will prepare students for future academic success. Preschool children want to touch, taste, smell, hear, and test things for themselves. They are eager to learn. They learn by experiencing and by doing. Preschoolers learn from their play. They are busy developing skills using language and struggling to gain inner control.

Intellectual Development – Preschool children learn best by doing. They need a variety of activities. They need indoor and outdoor space. They need a balance between active and quiet play. They can communicate their needs, ideas, and questions. Their attention span is a little longer, so they can participate in group activities.

If we do it right in the early years, we can expect children to thrive throughout school and their adult lives.

Both nature and nurture (genes and environment) influence children’s development. The quality of a child’s earliest environments and the availability of appropriate experiences at the proper developmental stages are crucial determinants of how a child’s brain architecture develops.

Caring and supportive environments that promote optimal early childhood development significantly increase children’s chances of a successful transition to school. This, in turn, promotes children’s chances of achieving better learning outcomes while at school and better education, employment, and health after they have finished school.

Evidence tells us that a person’s life successes, health, and emotional wellbeing have their roots in early childhood.

Students at a preschool program in Union City, NJ

Preschool Program: 3 & 4-Year-olds

Our Preschool Program is stocked with materials that encourage children’s creativity, problem-solving, exploration, experimentation, and learning in all areas of development.

We aim to provide a supportive learning environment that promotes the development of children’s critical thinking skills, fosters awareness of diversity and multiculturalism, and uses enthusiasm and engagement as the cornerstone of approaches to learning.

We provide an environment that nurtures the children’s capacity to engage in individual, small-group, and large-group activities and projects. Opportunities for indoor and outdoor interactions are offered through carefully planned instructions and purposeful play.

Children are offered opportunities to strengthen their knowledge through various developmentally appropriate learning experiences, including age-appropriate media, drawing, painting, construction of models, dramatic play, and verbal and written descriptions.

Structured activities included in our daily routines provide the children with much-needed order, stability, and familiarity. Those activities include circle meetings, small group time, and meal time. Both structured and unstructured takes place in a learning environment that is safe, healthy, clean, loving, warm, and stimulating.

PRESCHOOL: 3 AND 4 YEAR OLD ADDITIONAL FEATURES

-Daily activities and experiences that are planned and aligned with New Jersey’s State department of Education Preschool teaching and learning standards (2014)

– High order Thinking Skills

– Independent Work

– Collaborative work (Small and Large Groups)

– Organizational Skills

– Spanish Classes

– Mental health/Emotional identification

– Self-Control/Impulsive Control

– Self Care

– Transitions

– School Library

– Reading and Writing

– Etiquitte

– Problem Solving/Decision Making

A Word

From Managing Director

“Children have always been my passion. I am blessed with three amazing children and have enjoyed a 30 plus year career of working with children and families as a teacher, School Principal, and Director of Educational Programs in both the public and private sector. “

– Marilyn Duran

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Get In Touch

Location: 100 Avenue At Port Imperial, Weehawken, NJ 07086
Telephone: (201) 766-1053

Email: [email protected]

School Hours: M-F: 7am - 7pm

Seeds for Success

Learning requires active thinking and experimenting in a nurturing environment with endless opportunities.

At Sowing Seed School, our goal is to support children’s development from birth and prepare them for the future by providing a safe, warm, and welcoming place for them to explore, learn, and grow at their own pace.

Grow with us

Our newly constructed, modern facility (10,000 sq. ft of high ceiling space) is meticulously maintained to provide a safe and healthy environment for your child.

Our staff will engage your child in developmentally appropriate activities to ensure high quality education.