Early Childhood Development Program (ECDP)
Enrichment Opportunities
ECDP Assistant Director, Kris Brooks offers a popular assortment of enrichment classes for three, four, and five year-olds. Make sure to check out the exciting selection of classes offered, and if you see something that you think your child would enjoy, don't delay- sign up today!
Enrichment Classes Held Throughout the Year
Jewish Holiday Keepsakes
Age: Pre-K
Children enrolled will make apple sachets and honey pots for Rosh Hashanah, wire fruits and vegetables for Sukkot, pipe cleaner Stars of David and more - you will value these projects for years to come.
A is for Apple
Age: 3-5 years old
The perfect class for fall, this class combines the best of a cooking class with a craft class. We'll make some apple crafts and some yummy apple treats. Then we'll learn something about food preparation just because we can.
Creative Cupcakes
Age: 3-5 years
We will start this class by making our own cupcakes, and then we'll get creative. In each class we will decorate cupcakes like you've never seen before.
Fall Science
Age: Pre-K
The purpose of this class is to increase children's awareness of the things around them: the changing leaves, migrating birds and the ones that are staying; temperature changes; and, how people and animals adapt to the changes of the season.
Use Your Noodle
Age: 3-5 years old
What is pasta good for besides eating? You'd be surprised. In this class we'll make jewelry, craft unusual pictures, and taste-test a variety of pasta shapes and colors.
Drama Club
Age: 3-5 Year Olds*
If your child is imaginative and loves to be the center of attention, then drama club may be the perfect class. Children in this class will have the chance to act out Goldilocks and the 3 Bears, The 3 Pigs, The 3 Billy Goats Gruff and other stories either with puppets or as costumed actors. We may even have the opportunity to perform for our classmates!
Plenty Of Pizzas
Age: 3-5 Year Olds
“Pizza” is an Italian word meaning “mess,” and the children in this class will be making lots of mess! Children will be stretching their own dough and making Mexican pizza on tortillas, breakfast pizza and dessert pizza. A mess may be made but when the results are different and delicious, who cares!
Edible Art
Age: 3-5 Year Olds*
Did you know that kids can make sombreros out of sugar cookies, or snowmen out of doughnuts, or ladybugs and spiders out of Ritz crackers, or traffic lights from graham crackers? They can in this class!
Winter Science
Age: Pre-K
Some animals migrate, some hibernate. We’ll watch for the ones that stayed. We’ll watch the sky for changes in the clouds and make a book of winter changes.
Brag About Brownies
Age: 3-5 Year Olds*
We’ll make 3 different kinds of brownies from scratch that are worth