Plantsville Community Nursery School 109 Church Street, Plantsville, CT 06479 860-628-8878
Serving the community since 1955
A Great Start in Life! 50+ years of serving our children's educational, emotional, and social needs, as we help them prepare for kindergarten!
Classes: 3 year old children attend: Tuesday and Thursday morning 9:00 to 11:30 am 4 year old children attend: Monday-Wednesday-Friday morning9:00 to 11:30 am OR Monday-Wednesday-Friday afternoon12:30 to 3:00 pm
Curriculum: Free play, singing, story time, snack, handwork, show-n-tell, and outdoor play. Enrichment curriculum includes: walks, visits from community helpers, year end field trip, sing-a-longs with parents,celebrating holidays, final day graduation for 3-day classes and final formal sing-a-long for 2-day class. Brief history: The Plantsville Community Nursery School is the oldest continually running nursery school program in the state, and one of the largest, enrolling up to 30 children in each of its three classes. Opened in October 1955 by the mother's club of Plantsville Congregational Church, the nursery school began with Mrs. Ruth Nelson, Mrs. Helen Macleod and Mrs. Otley Kania teaching 16 children in the 4 year old class and 17 children in the 3 year old class.Each year the staff has included from 3 to 7 people providing children with an educational experience that will prepare them for entering kindergarten. Over the years the program has improved to provide the best up to date experience for each child in socialization, cognitive skills, fine and gross motor skills and improving imagination while still caring for the basic needs of 3-5 year olds.We are proud that in the 54 years we have been in operation, we have had only 28 teachers, reflecting a low turnover rate that has helped to keep consistency throughout our program. For further information: tours of the facility, or enrolling your child, please contact Debbie at 860-628-8878 or e-mail us at dboychuck@cox.net
Plantsville Community Nursery School Plantsville Community Nursery SchoolFebruary 2010The children enjoyed learning about their shadows the beginning of the month and how the silly groundhog tries to predict an early spring. We talked about the postal worker who is a community helper and even made a special ‘Valentine for our parents’ to mail home so they would get a loving surprise. The children helped me this month by cutting out all sorts of hearts to decorate our school and made a couple cute heart handworks to take home. I hope everyone has had a chance to see how we decorate our windows each month. Some of the younger children thought the snowmen were for Christmas rather than winter. We ended the month talking about all different kinds of pets, particularly dogs and cats. It’s amazing how many children have some type of pet at home that they play with and take care of. Next month we will start an exciting new Parent/Child literary program. Our school has been given a ‘Grant’ from this area of CT as part of a program I have been attending the last few years. Each child will take turns bringing home different books for their parents to read to them to work on rhyming skills and help them get ready for kindergarten. See you next month.The staff at Plantsville Community Nursery School.
For more information, please call the church office at (860) 628-5595 Church Office Hours are Tuesday through Friday, 8:30-2:30, with the office closed on Monday.