Sixth Riverdale's early childhood program offers an excellent foundation for the higher grades within an academically stimulating and developmentally appropriate environment. Guided by their teachers, the children learn to work both cooperatively and independently. We emphasize the values of our C.A.R.E. program, and encourage and value each child as an individual as well as a member of a classroom group. Our pre-kindergarten program recognizes that play is an important component of a young child's world. Play allows children to dramatize roles that are reflective of the adult world.
Dramatic play incorporates language development with socially interactive behavior.
It serves as a catalyst for the beginning stages of writing, reading, and math. In kindergarten, a multi-sensory curriculum is used to teach all curricular areas. The principles of patterns, measurement, geometry, simple graphs, and beginning calculations are covered. The science and social studies programs focus on the questions that growing children ask about the world around them. Riverdale Country School's campus offers a unique natural botanical and biological laboratory for young inquisitive minds.