Tradition continues at the Roslyn Trinity Cooperative Day School where students meet their teachers before the first day of school. Roslyn co-op teachers specially schedule visits during the summer months with their incoming students at the students’ home. The teacher gets to know him/her and ease those first day jitters. During the visit, teachers and students read stories, color pictures, look at family photos and share other experiences focusing on the building blocks of a new and trusting relationship for the coming school year. Since school has begun, students have been actively engaged in a multitude of learning experiences focusing on enhancing literacy, fine and gross motor skills, vocabulary development, math skills and their social-emotional ability. They have also been active scientists, planting seeds to grow lima beans and observing the change of season as they play in the co-op’s two well-equipped playgrounds. When the weather prohibits outdoor play, the children enjoy the schools’ indoor gym complete with a large variety of tricycles, slides, rocking horses, train table, large doll house and a number of other toys to stimulate a child’s physical development and stimulation. Students and parents will look forward to the fall yoga program and creative winter movement and dance program taught by the co-coordinator of the Alvin Ailey School in Manhattan.
For more than 60 years, the Roslyn Trinity Cooperative Day School has continued this home visit tradition and modeled it for other schools. To learn about the preschool and its high quality programs ages 2 through 5, please contact the director, Lindi Nubel, at 516-621-3380 or visit www.roslyntrinityco-op.org.
