Early Childhood Education Building a Culture of Curiosity Preschool through Kindergarten
CEDAR HILL PREPARATORY SCHOOL www.cedarhillprep.com
About Us Our School
Faculty
Cedar Hill Prep provides an excellent early childhood education. The lessons presented in our school are structured to encourage students to become and remain active participants in their own development and learning. We observe, identify and address the needs of each of our children and support them in using their current skills as a foundation upon which to build the steps they will climb toward success.
Cedar Hill Prep prides itself on the experience, training, compassion, and diversity of its entire faculty. The lower school teachers bring their years of combined experience as well as the rapport built over time working together to provide our younger students with a nurturing environment where every child has a voice and each student contributes to the classroom tapestry.
Our school keeps class sizes small and instruction personal, in order to provide research-based learning within a hands-on framework that reduces potential struggles with the development of reading and fine motor skills.
Our teachers make the time and effort to ensure that every day is a unique adventure for the students, full of new social experiences and exposure to fresh academic concepts. CHP’s faculty regularly attend workshops and seminars in order to stay current with the ever-evolving trends of education and the most relevant breakthroughs in childhood learning.
Curriculum Cedar Hill Prep offers a S.T.E.A.M. based curriculum with a focus on the whole child. No one class takes precedence over another as our teachers work together to provide a multifaceted educational infrastructure. Our students are immersed within our multimedia lesson plans which prepare them to be tomorrow’s global citizens. We pride ourselves on the well-rounded alumni that CHP has produced in our two decades as a school. Beginning in Preschool children learn articulation of sounds, phonemic awareness, alphabetic principle, and vocabulary. Students are taught math skills including number sense and enumeration. Social Studies are taught allowing children their first sense of community outside the home. In science, children are exposed to concepts that innately bring out their curiosity about their daily environment.
Phonemic Awareness helps: •
Understand the alphabetic principle
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Notice patterns of letters in words
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Decode possible unknown words
Beyond our core curriculum, there are a large number of specialized classes and extracurricular options available to students throughout their time at CHP, with many of the after school clubs designed directly for our youngest students.
Specials Art
Physical Education
Lower school students enjoy art classes once a week taught by a certified art teacher. Students use different creative media to inspire their imaginations while building fine motor skills. Art education is presented thematically and incorporates the holidays and celebrations of all cultures.
We promote the importance of fitness to attain a healthy mind and body. Physical education at the early education level focuses on spatial awareness, body awareness, and control and development of motor skills. Our classes help children of all ages enhance their strength, flexibility, and aerobic capacity, while also building self-confidence, and enhancing communication skills through early habits of teamwork and sportsmanship.
Drama The lower school drama program encourages our youngest community members to explore creativity and self-expression. In class they practice the skills of articulation and movement, as well as learning about the fundamentals of the theater and the various roles available to students, both on stage and behind the scenes, as part of CHP’s seasonal productions.
Music Preschool through Kindergarten classes use a developmentally appropriate curriculum that celebrates the importance of music. Students use tapping, clacking, and rhythm instruments that ring, setting them to music in order to improve hand-eye coordination and strengthen fine motor skills. Twice a year, the students have the opportunity to perform for their families and school during the spring and winter concerts.
Spanish The objective of the foreign language program is to learn a second language and appreciate the richness of its culture. Children develop good listening skills through music, songs, dance, mime, nursery rhymes, stories, and colorful visual aids. Puppets also play an important role and are used to enhance the language further. The development of listening skills allows students to recognize and feel the sounds of the language, encouraging them to speak with confidence and understand more deeply the ways in which various languages are used to communicate.
Clubs •
Lower School Art Club
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DnD Dècor Woodworking Club
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Kids Kitchen
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Reading and Writing Club
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Theatre Club
Experiential Learning A nine-acre school campus makes learning dynamic and continuous for our children. The natural surroundings, playgrounds and free space make spontaneous learning part of their daily experience as they stroll around our campus. The children interact with nature all around them in the context of a variety of classes, from science to art, turning the grounds of the campus itself into a schoolwide classroom.
Celebrating Multicultural and Ethnic Identity Cedar Hill Prep recognizes the importance of including cultural differences in all aspects of learning. Diversity means much more than racial and ethnic differences. We explore the benefits of diversity and work together to build an ethnically inclusive community in celebration of those differences. Celebrations on campus include National Hispanic Heritage Month, Black History Month, National French Week, Christmas, Chanukah, and Diwali.
Now Accepting Applicants! Building a Culture of Curiosity We provide an essential foundation in academic and social skills in order to guide our students toward strong independent learning.
Hours of Operation Before Care:
7:00am - 8:00am
After Care:
3:00pm - 6:00pm
Preschool:
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8:00am - 1:00pm or 8:00am - 3:00pm Pre-K:
8:00am - 1:00pm or 8:00am - 3:00pm
Kindergarten: 8:00am - 3:00pm
732-356-5400 admissions@cedarhillprep.com www.cedarhillprep.com 152 Cedar Grove Lane, Somerset, NJ 08873
CEDAR HILL PREPARATORY SCHOOL