Early Childhood

Educating children at a tender age means nurturing all of their needs: social and emotional, behavioral as well as cognitive.

We guide our youngest students as they learn to separate from their parents and act as members of a community, yet still maintain their personal identities.  In a warm, safe environment, our children learn to be risk takers and problem solvers.

All of our students, and most especially the very youngest, learn by doing, using their five senses to make sense of the world.  They create order from the chaos that surrounds them and become independent thinkers.  They learn to trust, to follow directions and to communicate verbally.

At Rabbi Arthur Schneier Park East Day School, general studies and Judaic studies are taught thematically: all learning is interdisciplinary, centered around the Jewish holidays, Shabbat, Israel, and the calendar.  Our children learn Hebrew language and Jewish culture.  They celebrate the Shabbat and holidays with music and art, cooking, baking and dramatic play.  Children learn about Israel in a variety of ways, including Torah stories, famous places, holidays, fairs, and charity drives, in order to make cultural connections between the American Jewish community and the State of Israel.  Early literacy skills – reading and writing, drawing and invented spelling, math, science and social studies – are fully integrated within each day’s adventures.