Mamaroneck Community Nursery School

MCNS has been a great experience for my two kids. My daughter joined MCNS as a four year old shortly after we moved in the area from Boston. She was initially nervous about a new school, but quickly learned to love her teachers and friends. She gained new skills and her personality blossomed at MCNS. She then adapted readily to kindergarten this year. My son is now at MCNS and is similarly doing well. Parent volunteer days are fun, low pressure events and it’s been nice to experience my children’s learning environment.

My son has been with MCNS for 3 years now, beginning in the Toddler Center and continuing on in the Nursery School. The environment is warm and inviting and the teachers are incredible. ESPECIALLY for an active boy, I love the play-​based curriculum. He is learning and thinking and getting lots of movement in the course of each day. The staff helped us with the tough decision to give him another year before Kindergarten. They were honest, but kind and really guided us through the process. Their support has been invaluable. My daughter will start in another year and I would recommend MCNS to everyone. Everyone feels like family there and it’s been the most amazing way to start our son’s school experience.

I have had 2 children go through MCNS, from the Toddler Center, when they started at 22 months-​old, straight through their Pre-​K classroom. It was the best decision I’ve yet to make for my sons. It is a warm, nurturing environment where the children are supported through their 1^st separation from their parents, and nurtured through the following years in preparation for Kindergarten. You will not find desks and strict lesson-​plans here. What you will find is a cooperative, community-​based learning through play environment where the kids have fun, make friends and learn HOW to learn. A skill that will carry them for a lifetime.

I have sent both of my children here and have so many wonderful things to say about the school and the community. The teachers are the best I have seen and are all highly educated and very respected in the community. It is a warm and nurturing environment where the kids enjoy learning. The parents run the school and I have the pleasure of serving on the board with a wonderful group of parents who are all passionate about giving our children the best early education experience possible. The class participation of parents also brings the community closer as the children know their friends parents. They have wonderful supplements to the class also, like Yoga, Nature (real animals!), musicians, dentists and fire trucks! They also have terrific school events like class and school picnics, art shows, parents’ night out, etc. As far as I’ve seen in this community, MCNS is the best!

My son entered the toddler center as he turned 2 years old, and it is one of the best decisions that I’ve made as a parent. Both the teachers and administrators are top-​notch, as soon as I walked in the door I could see just how much they love to teach. They promote an atmosphere of fun and play (my son actually calls school «car/​toys»), but it is clear that he is learning so much. His language skills have increased signficantly and I am constantly amazed at what he comes home with, from ABCs to counting, things that I have not made a concerted effort to teach at home, he is mastering at school. He loves going to school, it offers him some great opportunity to be around other children his age, and with such caring and enthusiastic approach, I know my son is in great hands. He just wishes he could go every day

Mamaroneck Community Nursery School was my son’s first school experience at 2 ½ years old. Many of my mommy friends recommended it and while I trusted their opinions I was still so nervous sending him «off to school.» Well… after the first day I knew these women at the toddler center was where he needed to be. Lori was his teacher and I couldnt have been more pleased. His speech tripled within his first month at school. It was amazing to have my baby tell me about what he learnt at school that day. While the day is only two and half hours it was a break that I cherished and felt 100% at ease that my son was being loved and taught through fun! They do things like crafts, play with playdoh, free play, work with a sensory table, painting, story time, singing and dancing. Everyday my son came out with a smile on his face.
I actually wasnt quick enough when registering him for the new school year and i had to put him in another school. I am so dissapointed in this other school– i have considered pulling him out. It’s because compared to Mamaroneck Community NOTHING compares. I believe that three year olds need to learn through fun.
My younger son now attends the toddler center and has Roe and Roseanne as his teachers. These women are so loving and genuinely excited to see my son it just warms my heart. They are always open for questions and any concern they want to know about. There are two parent teacher meetings a year which is important more for the parents to know what is going on with their young children. When my son was upset the first two weeks when I would leave him he would lean into Roe to comfort him as I walked away. I knew she had control and I knew she woudl be able to calm him quickly. Now he skips into Mamaroneck community:)
I am prepared to make sure I have both my boys in Mamaroneck Community next school year.