We believe that children learn best through play and hands on exploration.
Explore our website for information on our many learning opportunities for your child.
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
Love and Learning are in the Air!
Our preschool students are jumping into February with activities centered around friendship and kindness through the Valentine’s Day holiday and our Pet Theme Study! Teaching about Friendship and kindness are a part of our curriculum and a part of building Social Emotional Intelligence. The students will be making Valentine’s for their families and friends, baking Valentine’s goodies and incorporating the lessons of kindness to each other and our community. The students will learn about what it means to be kind and the vocabulary around emotions and effects by adding their friends’ names to our kindness wall when kind acts are noticed, reading books about kindness, and role playing. Our students will also be having a pet food drive to learn about how good it feels to be kind to others. If you would like to donate to the pet food drive, please place items in the box in the downstairs hallway. Donations will be made to the Ramapo-Bergen Animal Refuge. When teaching kindness and empathy or emotional intelligence to young children, it helps to model kindness, notice acts of kindness or not being kind, read books about being kind or a good friend, and role playing. These approaches can be further explored in in RULER: RECOGNIZING emotions, UNDERSTANDING causes and effects of emotions/being kind, LABELING emotions, EXPRESSING emotions appropriately, and REGULATING emotions effectively. For more information about RULER, you can visit What is RULER? – RULER Approach
We are also in the middle of registration for the ’25-’26 school year! If you know of a family looking for an early childhood educational home and family for their preschooler, please share about Prince of Peace Preschool! We will be happy to host them for a visit and tour of our school.
Ephesians 4:32 – Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
POPPS Playmates Application for Winter/Spring 2025
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.