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

We Are Thankful For:

November is a time when we reflect on being thankful and the gifts and bounty we have in relation to the Thanksgiving holiday. We all want to raise a child with manners, a polite child who says thank you to Grandma and Grandpa, teachers and friends for gifts and kindnesses. A child that says grace with us to thank God for our meals. Manners and grace can be taught and practiced, and a script can be provided and prompted for children. But what about feeling thankful? The emotion is much different than the polite please and thank you that we expect from children and each other. In Raising a Thankful Child, Raising a Thankful Child | NAEYC,  it is pointed out that learning about the emotion of thankfulness is the different from learning manners, it is learning about the feeling or thankfulness, a type of morality. Practices as adults that can support creating a meaning for being thankful is modeling appreciation and thankfulness for the child’s contributions and to help them recognize how they feel when they do something for someone else or when someone does something nice for them. “Thank you so much for helping me carry the groceries; that made me feel loved” , “When you shared your Play-Doh with your friend, that made them feel happy. They were thankful” “ My body feels good when I eat this healthy food. That’s why we say grace”. Modeling this over and over will help a child make the connection between the feelings and emotions associated with the manners. Now, will you feel a little silly at first noticing and commenting on things out loud? Yes, at first, but soon it will be second nature; it takes practice! And we as educators know you can get into the habit, as I am pretty sure our families have all commented at one time or another, as mine have, “OK, Mom, I’m not one of your preschoolers😊” We are thankful for the support from our school families, staff, volunteers, and Prince of Peace Church community because they help us make the work that we love even more rewarding!

Helene Welsing, Director

Prince of Peace Preschool 

106 Orangeburg Road Old Tappan, NJ 07675 

“Play is the highest form of research!” ~Albert Einstein 

Colossians 3:12 “Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.”

For more information about POPPS Preschool, please visit www.princeofpeacepreschoolnj.org,     our Facebook page at Prince of Peace Preschool | Facebook, 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.