| What you need to know about the Roosevelt
Island Day Nursery...
 The
Roosevelt Island Day Nursery provides part-time and full-day preschool
programs for Roosevelt Island families. Organized in 1975 by a
group of Island parents and incorporated as a not-for-profit corporation
in 1979, the school is run by a Parent Board of Directors with
a professional teaching staff.
All head teachers are New York State certified in
Early Childhood Education and have master's degrees from such
outstanding teacher training programs as the Bank Street College
of Education and Tufts University. Our Director,
Diana Carr, has a Master's degree from Bank Street College, and has been at the school for 10 years.
| FACTS ABOUT RIDN |
| For children ages 2.6 to 5 years |
| Admission on a first-come, first-served
basis |
| Choice of morning programs (9 am to 12 noon) or full day (9:00am to 3:00pm) 5 days
a week |
| Children can be dropped
off starting at 8:00am each day |
| School year runs from early September
through mid-June |
| Summer program available for
July and August |
| All head teachers have Master's degrees and are certified by New York State in Early Childhood Education |
| Accredited by NAEYC's National Academy of Early Childhood Programs |
| Financial aid is available ( contact
the Director ) |
The goal of the school is to help children grow emotionally,
socially and intellectually in a warm and supportive environment
which reflects the best features of our ethnically, culturally,
racially, and economically diverse Roosevelt Island community.
The aim of the preschool program is to provide young children
with well-supervised work and play experiences that will prepare
them for kindergarten. The curriculum stresses the development
of of concepts and skills that will be needed for the formal learning
of reading, writing, math, science and social studies. Art, music
and physical education are an integral part of the curriculum.
Come See...
If you were to visit one morning, you would see
parents greeting each other in Spanish, Serbo-Croatian, Korean,
Japanese, or any one of the many languages spoken on the Island.
You would see young children eagerly entering their classrooms
and greeting their friends.
You would watch the children using materials that
encourage discovery, exploration and learning. They would be painting,
building elaborate block structures, or playing counting and patterning
games with math materials.
 You
would see children working with their teachers creating their
own books about themselves and their families. You would also
see them interacting in dramatic play, or observing and feeding
the class pets. They might be cooking applesauce and charting
who liked it and who didn't.
Every day children participate in a meeting time
when they have group discussions, movement and singing, or hear
a story read aloud. Groups of children visit the school library
weekly to read and borrow books. Every day, children have an active
physical playtime.
All this activity would be going on in a spacious,
bright and well-equipped classroom, with the spectacular backdrop
of the river and its constant parade of tugboats, tankers and
barges.
If you are considering enrolling your child in preschool,
you are welcome to visit the school and meet with our Director
to talk about what program would best suit your child. Registration
begins in mid-March.
Our parents tell us they value...
"...the international environment"
"...the exposure to different cultures"
"...the commitment to quality education"
"...the caring, nurturing atmosphere"
"...teachers treat children as if they were
their own"
"...it's like an extended family"
"...teachers show a lot of love and joy"
"...my child loves school!"
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