Allwood Play and Learn
94 Chelsea Road, Clifton NJ 07012
973-779-4844 Ashley@AllwoodPlayandLearn.com
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About Allwood Play and Learn
Allwood Play and Learn is a family owned and operated preschool located in the Allwood Community Church in Clifton, NJ. The school has been in existence for over 50 years and has been owned by Ashley Anderson since 2004. We believe strongly in the importance of play and the benefit children have in learning through play. Children at our school have opportunities for play every day, while also following our daily curriculum and learning letters, numbers, shapes, colors, and a weekly theme.
All of our classes learn through art, practicing fine motor skills, story time, projects, and music and movement EVERY DAY!
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Our school is comprised of 4 classrooms:
A - Younger 3's begin at 2 1/2 years old and the friends will turn 3 in this class. These friends are working on their Social-Emotional skills, recognizing their written name, sharing, following multiple step directions, strengthening fine motor skills, and encouraging independence.
C - Our Bigger 3's are comprised of friends 3 to turning 4 after October 1st typically through June (depending on enrollment). Our older 3's are working on most of the same things as our younger 3's with extra letter recognition, adding on to math concepts, increasing fine motor and gross motor skills, all while playing and having fun with our peers.
B and D - We currently have 2 Full Day Pre-K 4 classrooms. Our Pre-K 4's friends are working all year on Kindergarten readiness. In our Pre-K 4 class children are learning upper and lower case letter recognition and eventually writing these letters independently, and finally stringing together to form simple sight words. They are learning letter sounds, number recognition and writing numbers, recognizing and writing first and last names, address and phone number, sequencing, rhyming, rote counting, same and different, following multiple step directions, age appropriate play and socialization, expanding on concepts and themes being discussed, and much much more!
Our goal is to prepare every child as much as possible and they grow and mature. We prepare them socially, emotionally, and academically to move up to the next class and to eventually graduate and move on to Kindergarten!
OPTIONS:
Option A. (AM Half Day):
Our half day program includes our core curriculum time with circle time, arts and crafts, centers (blocks, dramatic play, science, math, and art), story time, and outdoor play time. This program runs from 8:30am-12:30pm.
Option B. (School Day):
Our School Day program is from 8:30am-3:00pm. This includes all of the above as well as lunch, and our afternoon program. Students who stay for a full day have story time, nap time, dance, arts and crafts, and extra outside play time. We recommend this program for all students because it gives them the opportunity to meet new children that may not be in their class and begin to form wonderful new friendships all while having tons of fun!
Option C. (Full Day):
Our Full Day option is has everything our School Day option has as well as some extra small group time during Early Drop and Extended Pick-up. Full Day's are from 7:00am-5:00pm.
Early drop: 7:00am-8:30am
Extended pick-up: 3:00pm-5:00pm
Our Typical Day:
7:00 - 8:30 Before Care Small centers open, morning art project, friends sit for breakfast at 8:00, we transition to classes at 8:20 and doors open at 8:30 for all other students
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8:30 - Class Begins Friends begin with finding attendance cards, daily skill practice, and can rotate through small groups while everyone arrives
9:25 - Morning Circle Introductions, days of the week, months, weather, seasons, year, opening thoughts
9:35 - Bathroom / Washing hands
9:45 - Snack / Library / Story Time
10:05 - Art and Centers work on daily projects, friends rotate between small groups, art project, skill work, sensory, music and movement
11:00 Playground
11:45 Bathroom / Washing Hands
12:00 Lunch
12:30 Half Day friends get picked up
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12:30 - 1:30 Big Kids rest time
12:30 - 2:00 3's rest time
2:00 - 3:00 Afternoon groups snack, playground time or centers & games
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3:00 - 5:00 Aftercare Music & movement, game time, painting, big buckets
