About Us

At Prince of Peace Preschool, we believe that children learn best through play and hands-on exploration. Our indoor and outdoor classrooms provide a fun and stimulating learning environment where children can investigate and explore using their tremendous curiosity while developing kindergarten readiness skills. Our students explore our outdoor nature playground and garden year-round and on a daily basis. One of our primary goals is to develop a positive self-image in each child while practicing social, cognitive and language skills; affirming that he or she is a unique, special person. We utilize Creative Curriculum by Teaching Strategies to guide our learning with studies and activities that enable children to develop confidence, creativity, and life-long critical thinking skills. In addition, we utilize Learning Without Tears for pre-writing and incorporate a variety of music, process art, and gross/fine motor activities throughout the school day.

Learn more about our teachers here.

Preschool News

“Get Ready Jesus is Coming!”

It is a magical time in the school calendar-Advent! As the students come in and excitedly tell us their elves are coming, their trees are going up, houses are being decorated with lights and Rudolph blowup lawn ornaments and lists are being written for Santa, we are excited because it is time to learn about a blessed event, the birth of Jesus. At POPPS we are bringing out nativities that little hands can touch and play with, reading the Christmas story, lighting our advent wreaths during snack time (quickly and safely!), trying on nativity costumes, counting the days down on our classroom nativity calendars and practicing songs for our Christmas family program. We are getting ready to celebrate God’s gift to the world, the birth of his son Jesus.  If you would like to celebrate Advent at your home, why not pair a song or devotion with the opening of an advent calendar daily, or the lighting of a candle each week. It doesn’t need to be perfect-maybe this week your candles are lit on a weeknight and next week on Sunday, or your advent calendar reveals Legos or chocolate treats. The important part is
sharing time together as a family and learning about the love of God. ELCA WH has a downloadable advent calendar at ELCA World Hunger Advent Calendar 2025 – ELCA Resources with nativity figures to color and short readings for your family. Wishing you and your families many blessings and good times during this Advent season! 

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For more information about POPPS Preschool, please visit www.princeofpeacepreschoolnj.org, email us at prek@princeofpeacenj.org, or call us at 201 965-3354.

Health & Safety

Prince of Peace Preschool is licensed to operate as a Childcare Center from the NJ Office of Children and Families (OFC). All regulations from the OFC and recommendations from the Board of Health will be followed and may change at any time due to community health issues and regulations and recommendations are updated.
At this time:
*Masks are optional at POPPS.
*Students will have their own bin and cubby to store their extra clothes, water bottle, and personal use materials that will be separate from other students’ belongings.
*We ask that you perform a daily health check before coming to school. More information is available in our parent handbook.
*Students wash upon entry to our program and frequently throughout the school day. We have an outdoor sink and hand sanitizer available on our playground.
*Each indoor classroom will have a room air filter with windows ajar to promote air circulation.
*As research and regulations are updated periodically, these measures may be updated as guidance from the OFC, CDC and the Bergen County Board of Health change.