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The North Ward Center’s Forest Hill Child Development Center has immediate openings for preschool for children ages 2 to 5. The program runs Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Breakfast, lunch and snack are included for $140 per week. All children are accepted, including those not yet toilet trained.
If you are interested call immediately - (973) 481-1023.
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More than 330 children from the North Ward Child Development Center in Newark graduated from preschool during five days of ceremonies before hundreds of proud parents, grandparents siblings and friends.
"We're also happy that the parents share the children with us and that the children are ready to go," said Child Development Center Project Director Michele Sceppaguercio. "So we've done our job and it's an honor. It's really an honor to do this every single year."
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Preschoolers from The North Ward Center in Newark who brought in their pennies they collected around their houses raised $845.72 for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.
The children brought in their pennies and loose change for three weeks and deposited them into jars in their classrooms as part of the Pennies for Patients, a nationwide fundraising effort by White Plains, N.Y.-based organization.
Students who attend The North Ward Child Development Center in Newark and other high-quality “Abbott” preschools continue to outperform their peers at the end of first and second grade, according to a comprehensive study released earlier this month.
The Abbott Preschool Program Longitudinal Effects Study tracked more than 1,000 children in Newark and 14 other urban districts in New Jersey over a three-year period from kindergarten through the end of second grade.
This article originally appeared June 12, 2009 on nj.com.
Manuel Mendez has a long way to go before he graduates from college. But the 5-year old Newark preschooler got a sense of what that day may be like when he donned a graduation gown and marched to the tune of "Pomp and Circumstance" as proud family members cheered for him.
Mendez is among 300 children graduating this week from The North Ward Center's preschools during five days of ceremonies packed with beaming parents, grandparents and siblings.
