Preschool / Child Care in Morris County, NJ

Clockwork Learning Center - Chester:
Clockwork Learning Center, conveniently located in Chester, Morris County, New Jersey, is a private school providing early childhood education programs to children from six weeks to six years of age. The commitment we have to quality, feeds its way throughout our centers by way of our qualified and caring staff, personally selected toys and equipment, and our educational resources and programs. It is this combination of excellent facilities and an outstanding team of staff that allows us to provide the highest quality of care, promoting positive growth and development of your child.

All of our time with our children is spent developing their skills, whether emotional, physically or mentally. They are continually learning through their interaction with teachers and other children:

- Infants - PreK (6 weeks - 6 years)
- Pre-school literacy
- Phonics Letterland program
- Pre-writing skills
- Numeracy
- Open from 7:00 am - 6:30 pm
- After school care

Literacy and numeracy:
Our numeracy program starts early, introducing our children to visual recognition of number, shapes and patterns. This develops through the ages and their competency, to counting, sequencing and very basic addition. Literacy is very important to a child as it underlines the foundation of communication. If a child can identify letter shapes and the sound that letters make, they have a strong ability to construct words and from that foundation, read. Our literacy program is called Letterland, which included in our standard curriculum.

Letterland:
Letterland is the secret place where letters live! Letterland is the most child-friendly, multisensory way of teaching children how to read and write. The secret of its worldwide success lies in its information-rich pictogram characters and phonic stories, its explicit, systematic teaching, and its ability to delight children aged 3-8+.

Sounds:
To learn to read and write, children need to know the sound that letters represent in words. Traditional letter names like 'aee, bee, cee' don't help because over half of them begin with another letter's sound (e.g. eff, aitch, em are, you). By contrast, each Letterlander's name always begins with it's usual sound. So it's brilliantly simple.

Shapes:
The Letterlander characters and their engaging story explanations provide visual and verbal metaphors for letter shape, direction and formation, including reasons why capital and lower case letters have different shapes.