Laurel Hall Early Childhood Center serves our community as an outreach of Emmanuel Lutheran Church.  We welcome any child from two years through five years of age who is in good physical and emotional health and whose parents desire a caring, Christ centered early childhood experience for their child.
 
     Laurel Hall Early Childhood Center provides a curriculum that compliments the predictable stages of early childhood development while acknowledging the rate and pattern of growth of each individual child.  Children learn to express themselves verbally, to accept their feelings and to get along with one another in safe and nurturing surroundings.  We have designed a theme-based curriculum to foster creativity through dramatic play, story time, process and project art, songs, rhythms, hands on science and math activities and balance of indoor and outdoor play.  The children hear Bible stories reflecting themes of love, friendship, sharing and other positive values.  We visit the sanctuary for a 20-minute whole preschool worship once a week.  Children gain self-confidence as they grow cognitively and socially in a creative and caring environment.
 
    Laurel Hall Early Childhood Center admits children of any race, color, national and ethnic origin to all rights, privileges, programs and activities generally accorded or made available to students at preschool.  It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic origin in the administration of its educational policies, admissions policies or school-administered programs.
 
     Our center operates year round.  We open at 7:00 a.m. and close at 6:00 p.m. Monday through Friday.  The center is closed the following holidays: Martin Luther King Day, Presidents' Day, Good Friday, Memorial Day, Fourth of July, Labor Day Week, Thanksgiving Day and the following Friday and Christmas Week. 
 
Laurel Hall Early Childhood Education Center is accredited by the National Academy of Early Childhood Programs.

For more information or a tour please contact:

MaryAnn Restivo-Director

(818) 762-1370

updated 07.01.07