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The
Classes at CNS:
Ever since 1965,
Community Nursery School has offered a quality program for parents wishing
to send their preschool children to nursery school. The Community Nursery
School is located within the
Poughkeepsie United Methodist Church
and offers classes for 2, 3 & 4 year old children. Our classrooms are
designed and furnished especially for young children. There are low tables,
chairs, bookcases, a washing sink, and an adjoining bathroom in each room. A
fenced, child-safe playground is found behind the church building. Weather
permitting, the children spend the last twenty minutes of each day on the
playground.
Children must have their
birthdays prior to December 1st to be eligible for the
corresponding class (i.e. a child must be 3 before December 1st
to enroll in a class for three year olds). Two year old children attend
class accompanied by parent or other caregiver. Three and four year old
children attend class on their own and must have independent toileting
skills.
Our two and three day program
classrooms accommodate 12 children with one Teacher and one Assistant
offering a comfortable and supportive 6:1 child: teacher ratio. Our five day
program classroom accommodates 14 children, with one teacher and one
assistant, offering a comfortable and supportive 7:1 child: teacher ratio.
The classes at CNS are
carefully designed and organized to provide your child with the very best
possible environment for his or her developmental, physical and emotional
growth. The progression of needs, from 2 years old through 4 or 5 years old,
is thoroughly considered. Below are detailed descriptions of our classes and
what your child will gain from being a part of them.
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"Mommy & Me"
for
TWO year olds
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for THREE year olds |
for FOUR year olds |
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Weekly (Wednesdays)
9:15-10:00 or 10:15 - 11:00
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Twice a week
(Tuesdays & Thursdays)
9:00 - 11:30
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Three times / week
(Mondays, Wed. Fridays)
9:00 - 12:00
or
Five times a week
(Monday through Friday)
9:00 - 12:00
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Two year old children attend with a
parent or care-giver, once or twice a week for one hour. They will
gain the experience of being comfortable in a classroom setting,
with other children, with age-appropriate teacher instruction.
Objectives :
- Your child will gain comfort in
classroom setting;
- Your child will interact socially with
other children their age;
- Your child will have opportunity to
share, take turns and express themselves;
- Your child will experience gentle
instruction from qualified teacher;
- Your child will be exposed to books
through story;
- Your child will learn a variety of
songs and finger play activities;
- Your child will have opportunity to
create simple craft projects;
- Your child will be exposed to
developmental concepts, such as colors, body parts, spatial
relationships;
- Your child will have opportunity to
separate from parent or caregiver in carefully orchestrated
situations;
- Your child will have tons of fun!
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After a “graduated
opening,“ which gently introduces the class, three year old children
will attend without parent for 2 ½ hours twice or three times a
week. They will gain independence and confidence, develop peer
socialization skills, and be exposed to a variety of literacy and
concept awareness activities.
Objectives :
Along with all the previous objectives:
- Your child will gain independence by
separating from parent;
- Your child will engage in cooperative
learning and play activities;
- Your child will learn to recognize
their name;
- Your child will develop fine motor
skills through various activities such as tracing, puzzles,
manipulatives and daily art projects;
- Your child will develop gross motor
skills by participating in both indoor and outdoor physical
activities;
- Your child will build their vocabulary
through finger play, songs, stories, circle time discussions, and
dramatic play;
- Your child will recognize attributes
of objects through matching and sorting activities;
- Your child will develop number and
spatial concepts;
- Your child will be exposed to various
sensory activities;
- Your child will identify shapes and
colors;
- Your child will follow simple
directions;
- Your child will develop a sense of
respect for others, for property and for themselves;
- Your child will develop cognitive
skills through simple problem solving activities, guessing games and
use of imagination;
- Your child will participate in special
event days such as “Teddy Bear Day,” “Circus Day,” “Silly Hat Day;”
- Your child will play and learn and
have fun with friends!
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These 4 year old
children attend 3 hour classes either 3 times or 5 times a week.
Along with learning valuable social skills through structured “play”
activities, kindergarten readiness will be developed through
age-appropriate instruction in literacy and pre-academics.
Objectives :
Along with all the previous objectives:
- Your child will identify and write
their own names;
- Your child will recite popular nursery
rhymes;
- Your child will begin to recognize
words that rhyme;
- Your child will recite the days of the
week and the months of the year;
- Your child will develop phonemic
awareness by naming letters of the alphabet, their sounds, and
beginning word sounds;
- Your child will engage in various
pre-writing activities;
- Your child will develop math skills by
identifying numbers, counting both in sequence and through
one-to-one correspondence, and estimating;
- Your child will identify and construct
patterns;
- Your child will explore various
properties of science while investigating, making predictions, and
drawing conclusions;
- Your child will be able to sequence
events and arrange objects in order;
- Your child will determine how objects
are alike and identify opposites;
- Your child will participate in several
special event days such as “Pancake Day”, “Pajama Day”, “Pizza Day”,
and “Color Days.”
- Your child will participate in several
educational field trips throughout the year which coincide with the
curriculum;
- Your child will learn, love and have a
good time with their classroom “family.”
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