Codimonk Nursery School

Codimonk Nursery School is a dedicated institution committed to providing the highest quality of education and nurturing environment for young children. Our philosophy revolves around the idea that children learn by doing, and we promote learning through hands-on experiences, play, and teacher-directed activities. We believe in encouraging children to learn, explore, play, be creative, and have fun while doing so.

Our dedicated staff is committed to guiding each child through their Early Childhood Education journey. We use the Learning without Tears curriculum as well as the Pocket of Preschool curriculum. Each week, we focus on a theme and give the children guidance as well as explore their interests.

We currently follow the Westport Community School calendar and do not operate during the summer or school vacations. Our School Year Hours are: Pre-Kindergarten Class-Monday, Wednesday, Friday 9:00am-1:00pm *The children will be eating lunch at school. Lunch is brought from home. Preschool Class- Tuesday and Thursday 9:00am-12:00pm*The children will not be eating lunch at school.

Pre-Kindergarten Class

Our Pre-Kindergarten class is designed to prepare students for kindergarten while continuing to foster the need for open ended play, exploration, and collaboration. The Pre-K class is ideal for ages 4-5 and children must be 4 before Sept 1 in order to enter the Pre-K class as this class is intend for students who are entering kindergarten the following year.

Within this class, we use the Handwriting without Tears program and the Pocket of Preschool curriculum. This allows our students to learn in various ways using manipulatives, writing tools, letter building, and songs. Our goal is to nurture each child's love of learning and allow children to be explores of the world around them. Each week we focus on a different theme within the classroom and themes are often based upon the children's interest.

The students have at least one hour of free play per day. Our schedule is very similar to that of our Preschool Class. The children are able to choose the area of the classroom they would like to play in and move freely from area to area. The various centers we offer are: library, table top activities (play doh, puzzles, open ended art etc), writing table, science center, blocks, manipulatives, sensory table, puppet theater, and pretend center.

After free play, we visit the bathroom (which is our own private bathrooms on the same level as the classroom), we then have snack, circle time, project time, outside time, second circle where a concept is introduced and explored (such as apples, pumpkins, hibernation, the five senses etc), then a concept related project is done in small group, then bathroom, lunch, enrichment time, music and movement, and story time.

We follow the Westport Community School calendar and are not open during school vacations, major holidays, or during the summer. Our Pre-Kindergarten school hours are: Monday, Wednesday, Friday from 9:00am-1:00pm.

The tuition for our Pre-K class is $3750 per year for the 2024-2025 school year (which breaks down to $375 per month which is paid over 10 months, tuition is not paid during the summer months (July and August). There is a $25 registration fee which is due at the time of registration to save the child's place in the program. There is also a $40 curriculum/materials fee which is due with the enrollment paperwork in August.

*We do ask that when you register your child at the Codimonk Nursery School, you are making the commitment for your child to attend as we limit our class size to 16-18 students. Out of respect for our school program and for other local preschools, we ask that you do not reserve a space for your child at multiple preschools. Registration is done on a first come/first serve basis. Please call or email us to schedule a tour.