Riverdale Nursery School and Family Center

Riverdale Nursery School and Family Center Riverdale Nursery School and Family Center provides an inclusive and developmentally appropriate environment for young children ages 24 months to 5 years.

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A big year for little learners! 🎨✨Our 2s Program offers a warm and engaging first school experience where children can e...
08/10/2026

A big year for little learners! 🎨✨

Our 2s Program offers a warm and engaging first school experience where children can explore, create, play, and grow together.

With a small class size and a play-based, child-centered curriculum, our mornings are filled with hands-on learning, art, music, movement, stories, and plenty of opportunities to build independence and friendships.

Now enrolling for Fall 2026!
🕘 9:00 AM–12:00 PM
🎨 Play-based & hands-on learning
🌱 Small, nurturing classroom community
📅 Flexible enrollment options available

Interested in learning more? Schedule a tour and come see our 2s classroom in action!

📧 [email protected]
📞 718-884-3950

What happens when a building experience is allowed to keep going?Over the past week, our Pre-K has been working with woo...
04/16/2026

What happens when a building experience is allowed to keep going?

Over the past week, our Pre-K has been working with wood, beginning with hammering real nails into the surface, with care, focus, and clear intention.

From there, the work shifted. Children began connecting the nails with pipe cleaners, creating lines across the wood. With the addition of beads, those lines became more considered through introducing pattern, color, and moments of choice.

Now watercolor has entered. Rather than feeling separate, it’s layered directly into the work, moving around the structures, filling space, and changing the overall composition.

The piece continues to evolve as the children return to it, each time approaching it with new ideas and decisions.

We’ve been exploring light in our classrooms—playing with it, testing it, and noticing how it changes! What happens when...
03/23/2026

We’ve been exploring light in our classrooms—playing with it, testing it, and noticing how it changes!

What happens when light shines through something? What creates a shadow? How can we change it?

Children used their bodies and different materials to experiment—making shadows stretch and disappear, watching light pass through objects, and noticing how it reflects and shifts.

As the study went on, these discoveries started to show up in their work and play—through drawings, buildings, and art—capturing what they were seeing in their own way.

✨ This is how learning becomes visible—when children have space to wonder, test, and create. ✨

❄️ Winter Curriculum Moments ❄️ Exploring texture, color, movement, and the magic of the season.
01/15/2026

❄️ Winter Curriculum Moments ❄️ Exploring texture, color, movement, and the magic of the season.

Proud of our students, teachers, and families for creating this collaborative Dot mural. Inspired by The Dot, our commun...
11/26/2025

Proud of our students, teachers, and families for creating this collaborative Dot mural. Inspired by The Dot, our community showed how one small mark can grow into something beautiful 💛✨

⁣Process Art with the 3s! ⠀⠀Medium:⠀⠀Liquid Glue⠀Salt ⠀Watercolors ⠀⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀
02/28/2025

⁣Process Art with the 3s! ⠀
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Liquid Glue⠀
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Message or call (718-884-3950) to book a tour for ours private 2s program! We can't wait to hear from you!
01/16/2025

Message or call (718-884-3950) to book a tour for ours private 2s program! We can't wait to hear from you!

RNSFC Families- set up an E-wallet today for a cashless, stress free Book Fair experience! Visit bookfairs.scholastic.co...
03/25/2024

RNSFC Families- set up an E-wallet today for a cashless, stress free Book Fair experience! Visit bookfairs.scholastic.com/bf/RNSFCBookFair for more information.

We welcome anyone in the community to join us in the main lobby of our building to spread the joy of reading and support our school!

Fair Dates: April 1-5th

Outdoor play is essential for young children's development, not just when it's warm and sunny. Here at RNSFC, we bundle ...
01/22/2024

Outdoor play is essential for young children's development, not just when it's warm and sunny. Here at RNSFC, we bundle up and enjoy our large, enclosed playground - rain, shine, or SNOW!

As 3KA students explored the pumpkins, our 3KB students decided to focus on apples. They read books about apples and org...
11/02/2023

As 3KA students explored the pumpkins, our 3KB students decided to focus on apples. They read books about apples and organized an apple-tasting session to bring this study to life.
Each child brought an apple from home for the taste test. Our students observed the variations in color, size, texture, and taste, and graphed their preferences.
The leftover apples were used to make apple prints. While cutting the apples, students also studied the different parts of the fruit and noticed the star shape and seeds in the core.
To complete their study, 3KB students baked apples to make apple sauce and muffins. These delicious treats were devoured during snack time.

Address

3816 Waldo Avenue
New York, NY
10463

Opening Hours

Monday 8:30am - 3:30pm
Tuesday 8:30am - 3:30pm
Wednesday 8:30am - 3:30pm
Thursday 8:30am - 3:30pm
Friday 8:30am - 2:30pm

Telephone

(718) 884-3950

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