Experienced Childcare and Pre-K Schooling in Mahwah

Bell's Little Learners in Mahwah is now accepting infants, toddlers, preschool, and pre-k children.

Full and part-time schedules are available for children aged six weeks to five years.

Send Your Child to Our Newest Location

The Mahwah location has just opened in September of 2019. This location is currently undergoing some significant changes. The building was a day care center for many years and was in need of some changes. 

We have cleaned out the school and have upgraded part of the playground. We have carpeted the infant and toddler rooms, created a beautiful science room, and we are currently waiting for the rubber floor to be installed in the gym.

As the program grows, we will be looking to finishing the remodeling of the playground and building a first-floor indoor gym for the younger students. The children are enjoying all of the changes.

Our staff attends ongoing training to stay up to date. Call us today.

Classes Designed to Engage Your Child at Every Age

Cupcakes: This is our infant room. In this room we follow the parents' provided schedule for each individual child. When they reach the age of one, we will start the process of moving them towards the same schedule. We believe that each child has different needs and we always do our best to ensure that every child's needs are being met. The babies are exposed to music, coloring, arts and crafts, and story time, as well as developmentally appropriate activities throughout the day. In this room we spend a lot of time on the floor. The room is fully carpeted, and no outside shoes are allowed on the floor. 

Tiny Toons: In this classroom, all children will turn two at some point during the school year. During their time in this room, children are exposed to a preschool curriculum. They learn their letters, numbers, colors, shapes, seasons, and senses. The children have music, story time, and arts and crafts every day, with our primary focus on hands-on activities. The children are encouraged to play with each other in order to learn how to share. Our program is designed to provide children with the basics before moving into our preschool program. We also begin potty training with every child in this class.

Munchkins: In this classroom all children will turn three at some point during the school year. Our preschool class takes what the children have learned in our Tiny Toons class and expands on it. The hands-on activities will begin to incorporate science activities to help teach all of the themes they will learn throughout the year. They begin writing their names and all capital letters, as well as numbers 1-10. They start cutting with scissors, are given "jobs" around the class to teach responsibility and learn how to work together and follow directions. We also spend a lot of time in the class learning to play with each other. We do a lot of small group activities that are geared towards not only learning but having fun together. Potty training continues in this class if it has not been completed in the Tiny Toons.

Pre-K1: In this classroom, all children will turn four at some point during the school year. During their time in this class, the children will be exposed to a full pre-k curriculum. They will continue to learn how to write all of the letters, both capital and lower case. They will learn numbers 1-20, have show and tell every week to encourage speaking in front of others, have arts and crafts, music, science, social studies, story time, and free time to still be a kid. The group will learn how to do an activity together on the floor and then go back to their tables and work on an activity that helps to teach the skill. We do hands-on activities almost every day, sometimes as a group and sometimes individually. All children must be potty trained prior to entering this class.

Pre-K2: In this classroom, all of the children will turn five at some point during the school year. In this class, we spend our time prepping your child for kindergarten. We teach them all of the social, emotional, and educational skills they will need to ensure a smooth transition into kindergarten. Our program is built with activities focused on developing independent self-help skills, simple problem solving, verbalizing needs and wants, appropriate manners, and kindergarten-readiness skills. Our goal is to make sure your child can walk into their kindergarten class having all of the skills needed to have a great first year of school.

Call Bell's Little Learners today to schedule an appointment to view our school or browse our website for more information regarding us or our registration information. If you have any other questions or comments, please contact us.

Now offering Transitional/ Full day Kindergarten: Starting for the September 2021 school year the Mahwah location will be offering a full day Transitional/Kindergarten program. Children sometimes need a smaller group for kindergarten or even an extra year. We have created a program that provides children with all of the bench marks they would have to meet in a public school system. We will be limiting the class size to 10-15 children, giving them the individualized attention they would need. All children will receive report cards 3 times a year, parents would have parent teacher conferences and they will be exposed to all areas of learning that families would expect in a public school Kindergarten program. The Mahwah location has a science room, an art room, two indoor gyms, a library and a beautiful outdoor play area. The children will be able to experience a true kindergarten setting.