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

February and March have been joyful and engaging months at POPPS! Our students have begun an exciting Clothing Study, exploring everything from sizes, colors, and patterns to different fabrics and how clothing is made. This hands-on unit encourages children to build skills in literacy, math, and the arts while learning about something that is part of their everyday lives. It has been wonderful to watch their curiosity and creativity shine. We look forward to celebrating all they have learned with a special POPPS Student Fashion Show!

We were also blessed to welcome special visitors recently. Kay Lee and Joyce Chen, two of our parents, joined us to celebrate Lunar New Year. The children were helped to create paper fortune tellers and shared traditional rice cakes for everyone to taste. Our guests and Ms. Amanda also brought beautiful hanboks for the children to try on, providing a meaningful connection to our Clothing Study and an opportunity to appreciate another culture’s traditions. As we look ahead to St. Patrick’s Day, we are reminded how truly fortunate we are to have such supportive and wonderful families as part of our POPPS community and congregation.

Thank you to our guest contributor, Jackie Hynekamp, Pre-K 4 teacher.

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

POPPS Spring 2026 Playmates Application

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.