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Re: Preschool with ''Supernanny style discipline''
Our Daughter is at Little Pilgrims Preschool in Oakland. They
use time-outs as discipline and get their point across that way
to our daughter. They are also loving and caring, but you
definitely know who is boss around there. Check it out.
www.pilgrimlutherans.org
happy Little Pilgrims family
Re: Looking for a preschool in Montclair
Hi,
We live in Oakland and our daughter is currently in her last
year of preschool at Little Pilgrims located on 35th ave in
Oakland. I believe it is 3900 35th Ave, but the phone number is
510-531-3715. While this school is not in Montclair, it is 2
exits down the freeway using either 13 or 580. We have had a
great experience at this preschool. It has been around for 20
years and the original founders and teachers of the school are
still teaching there. The school is not rich with money but
rich with experience and a love for children that is easily
recognized. The school has lots of diversity in terms of
ethnicities, socioeconomics and types of families. The Director,
Linda Holt and her husband Pastor Paul Holt have 12 children, 7
of which are adopted and they continue to take in foster
children. They are an amazing family along with all the other
teachers and have made us a part of the family as well. They
enroll children as young as 2 and have a before and afterschool
program for the public elementry schools in the neighborhood.
When we started there 2 years ago we enrolled late as well so if
they have an opening they will accept students at anytime. They
have the 2 year olds seperated from the preschoolers who are
seperated from the school-age kids. That way they can focus on
your childs specfic needs and teach the children age appropriate
material. In the preschool there are about 5-10 kids per
teacher during class time and what my daughter has learned there
has made her MORE then ready for kindergarten next year. When
applying for schools for kindergarten, the teachers where very
impressed with my daughters knowledge and readiness for
kindergarten and have been very pleased with the children that
have come out of Little Pilgrims. If you are looking for a
great education, with a safe loving enviornment and lots of
diversity then I would check out this school. In all the time
they have been open they have never once advertised, all of
their families have been brought there by word of mouth.
I will tell you it is a Lutheran based school so if you don't
want any religion taught at all, this may not be the school for
you. We are not a religious family and have NOT felt obligated
to become religious in anyway. You do need to be open to the
fact that your child will be learning a little about God and
prayer, but along with that they teach the children about
kindness and compassion.
Happy Pilgrims family
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