We believe that children learn best through play and hands on exploration.

 

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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.

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 Preschool News

News 12 New Jersey

POPPS Trike-A-Thon May 20, 2025          

   

To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow” ~Audrey Hepburn

Our last study of the year is our Garden Study! We are lucky to have an enclosed garden (made possible through a grant from Lutheran Mission Support) on our outdoor classroom and playground with boxes that are just the right height for preschool gardeners! We cleaned out our garden beds, amended the soil, planned a garden, planted seeds and starter plants, and are looking forward to our harvest. We all worked together to be able to have a harvest of lettuce and herbs by the end of our school year. 
Working on our garden is truly a school wide and community endeavor! One of our families, who owns Hartman Excavating, donated garden soil to refresh our garden. The students were able to move the soil by wheel barrows into the garden and build up the beds. Two more families pitched in to move the remaining soil into the garden and onto the bare spots on our lawn-now we are also growing grass and a beautiful garden! Some teachers brought in divided perennials to attract pollinators. Another teacher brought in her composting worms to illustrate “friends/ helpers in the garden” while we studied beneficial and not so beneficial insects. We all took a field trip to our local family farm, Stokes Farm in old Tappan, where the two Farmer Ron’s showed us around their 150 year old farm so we could see how crops are grown in the field, lettuce is grown hydroponically in the green house, and get excited thinking about picking all of those strawberries! Thank you to everyone who made this year’s gardening study such a success.
Just as planting our school garden is an exercise in faith that our seeds and plants will bear fruit, running our preschool is also a labor of love for many individuals and organizations! We are truly providing a garden in which our future generations can learn, grow and thrive while experiencing God’s love and grace. We are blessed by the support of our pastor who is always on hand for wise counsel, problem solving (and even jumping in to spread mulch ) , a congregation that supports and cheers us on, lifting us up in prayer, families who volunteer and pitch in most generously whenever we have a need, a volunteer preschool board that helps us steer the ship and organize our year and special events, subs who jump into action when we need them and teachers who go above and beyond their job descriptions. We are truly thankful for all the people that have helped our garden and our school grow, thrive and be fruitful, believing in tomorrow!

         For more information about Prince of Peace Preschool, please explore this website, visit our fb page facebook.com/poppreschoolnj/ or call us at 201-965-3354 to schedule a tour!

 

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.