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The Early Childhood Center at Community Synagogue of Rye

Community Synagogue’s Early Childhood Center (ECC) is a fully licensed, nursery school in Rye, NY. We have been welcoming families to our diverse, warm and respected preschool for over 60 years. Our developmentally appropriate, play-based program is taught by highly trained and experienced teachers who are sensitive to the changing needs in early childhood education. We are proud to play an important role in providing our students the skills they need to successfully enter Kindergarten. This includes being socially confident, emotionally resilient and intellectually curious. We seek to understand, nurture and support each child as an individual while encouraging them to be active members of our loving community.

Our licensing grants us the opportunity to provide a longer school day for children aged 3-5 years old. Children may stay with us until 2:15 pm, four days a week. Hot lunches are available as well as afternoon enrichment classes. Our 2’s program is designed to be flexible and supportive offering classes three, four or five mornings per week. For the very, very young, we offer Toddler Time, our mommy-and-me program.

To schedule a tour or to learn more about our program please contact Dale Oberlander, ECC Director at 914-967-7698 or
doberlander@comsynrye.org.

2021-2022 Registration

  • Enrollment forms may be found in the Resources for Parents section (below). Please submit one form and deposit for each child.
  • Registration for currently enrolled families and synagogue members  is Nov 2nd thru Nov 13th.
  • Open enrollment for new families begins Nov 16th.

What's New at the ECC?

The Great Outdoors
We are extremely fortunate to have a large, private, outdoor space that supports a variety of plants, animals and insects. We have a thriving vegetable garden where we grow organic vegetables and herbs the children start from seeds in the spring. We are particularly excited about the “spinning gourds” we planted this year. Our new butterfly garden features an array of host and nectar producing plants designed to attract all sorts of butterflies and moths. We recently completed a renovation of our playground replacing old equipment with beautiful structures that complement our natural environment.

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Drawing is Important to Us
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​Our curriculum recognizes that language plays a key role in a young child’s education. Recently, we have made drawing a foundation of our program because we see the value it has in the supporting preliteracy skills as well as sensory and emotional growth.

Drawing provides an additional language for children, a window to express thoughts, emotions and observations. Children’s use of language, either verbal or visual, plays a key role in their intellectual development. Simply, drawing helps children see details, make choices and tell stories.

While drawing is an activity that many children do naturally it is, often times, not consistently supported or encouraged. Throughout the creative process teachers, parents and caregivers can offer guidance and instruction to make the experience meaningful and productive. We have been teaching the children to think about what they draw beginning with their own faces and body parts. Later we teach them how to embellish faces with expression. Examples include drawing eyeballs to indicate where the character is looking (up, down sideways or straight ahead), as well as the shapes of mouths and eyebrows. We also talk about environment and clothing to encourage and support the storytelling attributes of their picture.

We are committed to providing children an opportunity to draw on a daily basis and encourage parents to support this practice by having crayons and paper available at all times.

Guiding Principles of Our Curriculum

Resources for Parents


2021-2022 Enrollment Form

2020-2021 ECC Tuition


ECC Enrichment Registration Form

Parent Handbook

Challah Order Form

Lunch Order Form


School Calendar  2020-2021

Special Needs​

Innovative Programming

Sharing Shabbat for Young Families

Toddler Time

Programs for 2s, 3s and 4s

Pre-K Program

ECC Summer Camp


Kehilah Kids Kindergarten Program
All of our programs are designed to support the following areas of early childhood development:

Social Development
How children interact with their peers and adults, share, negotiate, cooperate,, follow direction, self-regulation, as well as adapt to transitions.
 
Intellectual (Cognitive) Development
The ability to think, reason and solve problems. How they form concepts, remember ideas, recognize
Objects and apply new information.
 
Language Skills
The ability to listen, understand, speak and expand vocabulary and organize thought and ideas which
Eventually lead to reading and writing.
 
Emotional Development
The ability to self-regulate, express feelings and to consider the feelings of others all leading toward positive self-esteem.
 
Gross and Fine Motor Physical Skills
The way that children use their large and small muscles, including they run climb and play as well as their ability to feed and dress themselves construct, draw and write.

Community Synagogue of Rye
200 Forest Avenue
Rye, NY 10580

Office: 914-967-6262
Fax: 914-940-6552
info@comsynrye.org

ECC: 914-967-7698
CJL: 914-967-7598

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