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Early Arts PRESCHOOL
Early Arts PRESCHOOL
Our New Jersey state certified early child care and preschool education for children 2-5 years old is provided in a unique home-based school setting, in a small group of no more than five or six children at a time, and under the guidance of always the same, highly qualified educator.
Time/Attendance Options
Time/Attendance Options
Early Arts Preschool is open Monday to Friday from 8am to 4pm, with summer break July and August. Depending on our availability and your needs, the children are enrolled for 2, 3, or 5 days per week.
Ratio/Group Size
Ratio/Group Size
Our ratio of children to adult is 5:1 or 6:2. Our group is never bigger than five kids at a time, or six if two teachers are present. The same two teachers are working with the kids throughout the whole school year.
Sharing Documentation
Sharing Documentation
We use photo and video documentation to reflect and revisit experiences, feelings, ideas, and the learning process. This we share with the children and their families on a regular basis.
Involvement
Involvement
We respect every child and his or her competencies, interests, and learning processes.
We also respect parents as each child's first teacher - families are always welcome to get involved.
Environment
Environment
Inside Early Arts Child Care Home is an engaging, developmentally appropriate, carefully planned learning environment that provokes curiosity and learning and promotes a positive social/ emotional climate; it offers multiple opportunities for children to joyfully interact, explore, discover, create, learn, and grow.
Goals/Philosophy
Goals/Philosophy
Our primary goal is to respect our society’s standards for high-quality care and education through creating meaningful learning experiences that support and promote children’s progression to understanding more complex concepts. We strive to promote children's meaning making through art and play-based early childhood education.
Curriculum
Curriculum
With the curriculum designed for family child care that is closely aligned to the NJ state early learning standards, we use children’s natural curiosity to create a love for learning where major emphasis is on creative activities and learning through play. Children are allowed to develop their own interests; we investigate, collaborate, and learn together.
Daily Schedule
Daily Schedule
Our program is relaxed and informal, but there is dependable sequence to such events as eating, resting, activities, and play so that the children have the security of knowing what happens next. Transitions are never stressful. A healthy, nutritious breakfast, lunch, and snack are freshly made and served daily. A quiet time follows lunch.
ART-BASED EDUCATION
ART-BASED EDUCATION
The arts are the perfect tool for teaching young children; they are a means of communication, also facilitating the expression of their thoughts and feelings, and allowing them to express their creativity.
New dimensions of expression and learning are possible with added perspective and experiences of a teacher educated in the visual arts.
Children learn science, math, and literacy standard skills through creative artistic explorations; they paint, draw, sculpt, dance, sing, talk, and write to reach new understanding and give form to complex concepts.
That develops higher order problem-solving and critical-thinking skills that will be fundamental for later learning through the elementary grades and beyond.
CREATIVE MOVEMENT CLASSES
CREATIVE MOVEMENT CLASSES
Enriched dance lessons and creative movement classes are scheduled bi-weekly by DDA Dance Academy in Paramus, NJ.
These fun 45-minute classes consist of a combination of dance, coordination skills, rhythm, and singing. Skills that are introduced in the creative movement class are reinforced, and new skills are added to keep students engaged while playfully learning.
Both of my children have been with Sonja for two years, and honestly, if it were up to me, I'd keep them learning with her through Kindergarten! They play, dance, read, build, paint, draw, create...LOVE school! The amount of learning and creating that goes on is amazing. Sonja is caring, guiding, and direct in her approach with the kids. They experience structure without stricture.
Thank you Sonja!
Marlene
Marlene
Sonja, I want to thank you for your care, knowledge, devotion, and love that you have given us in the past almost 2 years. You have instilled a love of art in my son that I believe will never disappear. He loves you and your daughters very much. He constantly talks about you at home. I really wish there were days available so that he could go to your school every day… As a mother, I really want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for taking an exceptionally good care of my "baby". :-) I would really want to keep in touch and continue our good relationship. Thank you very much.
Meri
Meri
This Preschool program is unlike any other. Sonja's art based program teaches our children about the world using art based projects as the basis for the lesson. My wife and I searched long and hard for a program that was not your typical legos-and-lincoln-logs type of preschool but something that would inspire our kid's creativity, teach them about the world, and evoke their individual spirits. We couldn't be happier to drop our children off at Sonja's every day because we know they will be safe, get the attention they need, and will be able to expand their learning at their own pace and in their own way.
Thanks Sonja!! Sidney and Mia will never forget you and nor will we!
Tal
Tal
Sonja is really kind and takes good care of the kids.
I love the way she spends the time with kids. My son loves her and misses her so much.
Thanks and I highly recommend her.
Suneetha
Suneetha
My son has been in Sonja's program for about 5 months now and he loves it! Miss Sonja is a wonderful teacher and mother! I recommend her program to all moms out there looking for a safe and loving environment for their children! My son loves going there so much, we added an extra day for him to enjoy with Miss Sonja and his friends! Thank you very much Sonja for taking such wonderful care of my son. It gives me piece of mind to know that he is having fun, learning and safe!
Gabrielle
Gabrielle
SCHEDULE
SCHEDULE
2 DAYS PER WEEK
TUESDAY / THURSDAY
8 AM - 4 PM
3 DAYS PER WEEK
MONDAY / WEDNESDAY / FRIDAY
8 AM - 4 PM
5 DAYS PER WEEK
MONDAY - FRIDAY
8 AM - 4 PM
TUITION
TUITION
Tuition starts from c. $400 per month and varies based on the attendance schedule you choose for your child. Some flexibility with the schedule may be possible but must be discussed in advance. Tuition can be paid weekly or monthly, by cash or check. Except during the summer months of July and August, tuition is expected on a regular basis, on our working and non-working days, and if child is absent for whatever reason. Tuition statement is provided at the end of the year for tax purposes.
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The size of our group is always 5 to 6 kids at a time and it is not getting bigger as the kids are getting older, so tuition is the same for all ages; your 4 or 5 years old will enjoy the same benefits of the small group and individual attention from their teachers as their younger siblings or friends.
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20 creative movement classes are scheduled throughout the school year on the assigned day of the week. If your child is scheduled for attendance on that day, the Dance Fee is $200 per year, payable once with the enrollment or $20 monthly for ten months.
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In addition, three nutritious, healthy meals are freshly prepared daily and included in tuition price if the food program form is signed.
ENROLLMENT
ENROLLMENT
Enrollment is ongoing during the school year, depending on the space availability. Re-enrolling in spring for the next school year; after continuous enrollment is confirmed, priority is given to the siblings of the currently enrolled students and returning families. Available schedule is then offered to the parents on our waitlist. To inquire about our immediate or future availability or to join the waitlist, please fill out the contact form at the bottom of this page.
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In order to enroll your child for Early Arts Preschool Program, you must bring the completed Registration Packet, Advance Notice Fee (last two weeks paid in advance), and $25 Yearly Enrollment Fee. The fees can be paid by cash or check, or our email for contactless payments will be provided. Contract that confirms our agreement and understanding of our Policies needs to be signed after our Policies are discussed in person. We cannot hold your child's spot if any of the required documentation/fees are incomplete.
Click on the links to download and print REGISTRATION PACKET forms:
Click on the links to download and print REGISTRATION PACKET forms:
Basic parent and child information, Emergency contacts, Medical history, Social media policy with picture release form, State forms.
Child's health form completed and signed by a physician, with the examination dated within 12 months prior or within 30 days after the first day of school, and every 12 months from the date of the examination thereafter.
Child Care Food Program ensures that all children receive nutritious, well-balanced meals while in school. Three meals are included in tuition price if child's Food Program Enrollment Form is signed.
Keep these documents for your own reference:
Keep these documents for your own reference:
Beginning and end of the school year, closings, parent-and-child playtime.
List of our daily activities with approximate times of the day.
Our sample menu, approved by Child Care Food Program.
CONTACT US
CONTACT US
To contact us, call 201-300-6009 or fill out this contact form.
Your e-mail will never be used in any other way
than for occasionally contacting you with our updates.
Visiting time must be scheduled in advance.
Thank you!