The Jewish Community Day School, Durham

The Lerner Preschool Program is a certified and licensed preschool by the North Carolina Department of Child Care and Human Services. This licensing is met by strict requirements for building safety, low student to teacher ratios, programming, children's activities, and staff training. The Lerner Preschool program is a 5 star licensed program through the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Child Development. This rating reflects the school's commitment to highly educated and experienced staff, excellence in programming and an overall safe and healthy environment. It is met by strict requirements for low student/teacher ratios, professional staff development and building safety. Each classroom is a bakery, an art and music room, a math and science lab, a library, a construction site, a performing arts theater, and a family, home, and community, where children can experience first hand what it's like to be an artist, author, chef, naturalist, mathematician, scientist, architect, teacher, mom, dad, and friend. Our curriculum is a dynamic blend of theme, interest, and skill-based activities designed to provide hands-on learning experience that enhance a child's cognitive, language, gross and fine motor, creative, and social and emotional development. A typical day includes a blend of free choice activities/centers, teacher directed activities, small and large group activities, gross motor play, language arts/story time, math, science, social studies, and Judaics. Our classrooms offer each child many incredible opportunities to be actively engaged, as they use their senses to learn about the world around them. Active learning greatly contributes to a child's love of learning, which is essential for all childrens' development.