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                                                   Playmates Application Fall 2025

Things are Growing Inside and Out at POPPS!

This fall our schedule is growing by one day, our classes are growing, and oh yes, we are growing beets and lettuce in our garden!

We are starting Fall of 2025 with a new schedule-we are expanding from four to five days with the addition (or reintroduction of) Outdoor Explorers! On Fridays our explorer students will be outdoors, rain, snow and shine, at Chipmunk Hollow, our outdoor classroom and playground, with a Tinkergarten based curriculum. This Fall the focus will be on Wellness for our Outdoor Explorers with activities that underscore that physical activity leads to healthy outcomes while modeling how to persist through challenges and practice gratitude. Our students, or explorers, will learn through play in the natural world.

This addition brings us to 3 traditional classrooms featuring the Creative Curriculum with plenty of outdoor time, our outdoor class of combined age explorers and POPPS Playmates, our program for two-year-olds and a grown up, also in Chipmunk Hollow (weather permitting). POPPS continues to grow as we explore new ways to love learning and share that God loves all of us, unique and perfect, as he created.

And oh yes-we are growing…lettuce! And beets and maybe kale! We will be digging in our dirt, finding worms, and growing cool weather crops in our garden this fall to harvest and snack on together.

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.