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A Warm, Strong Start
Torah Tots is a joyful Jewish preschool where children feel safe, loved, and excited to come to school.
Beginning at three months and continuing through Pre-K, each classroom meets children at a different stage of growth. Our youngest children receive the close attention and flexible care they need. As they grow, their day becomes more structured, their learning becomes deeper, and they take on greater independence.
Through every stage, children are surrounded by warmth, strong teaching, and the joy of Jewish life.
Four Stages of Growth
Infants
The infant classroom follows each child’s feeding, sleeping, movement, and developmental needs.
Teachers provide a calm setting for early interaction, language, sensory play, and physical development. Jewish life begins gently through songs, holiday displays, and familiar experiences such as tasting challah on Friday.
Toddlers
Toddlers begin following classroom routines and participating in short group activities.
They sing brachos with hand motions, dance with the Torah, paint, move, explore sensory materials, and learn through play. Songs, puzzles, matching games, and classroom objects introduce letters, numbers, colors, and shapes.
Nursery
Nursery children can remain with an activity longer, communicate more clearly, and take a more active role in the classroom.
Teachers introduce early literacy, math, Hebrew, and Judaic learning through stories, art, movement, dramatic play, and hands-on projects. Children also strengthen the fine motor skills they will need for writing and the social skills they need to participate successfully in a group.
Pre-K
Pre-K children are ready for more developed lessons and higher expectations.
They work on reading and math readiness, Hebrew letters, writing, classroom independence, and the skills needed for kindergarten. Some children move considerably beyond the basic readiness goals, and teachers continue challenging them rather than stopping at a set benchmark.
Jewish Life Comes Naturally
Jewish learning is part of the everyday rhythm at Torah Tots.
Children learn brachos through songs and movement. They hear Torah stories, give tzedakah, prepare for Shabbos, and experience the holidays through art, food, music, and classroom celebrations.
As children grow, they recognize Hebrew letters and familiar Jewish words. They learn about derech eretz, sharing, respect, and their place within the Jewish community.
The goal is for Judaism to feel joyful, familiar, and truly theirs.
A Curriculum That Works Together
Judaic and General Studies teachers plan closely with one another. When there is a natural connection, the same theme carries through different parts of the day.
A class learning the letter F during the Torah portion about the plague of frogs may count frogs, search for them in a sensory bin, describe how they feel, create a frog project, and hear the Torah story behind the lesson.
The children meet one idea in several ways. That makes the learning easier to understand and much more likely to stay with them.
Teachers Who Know Their Children
Children in the same classroom are not always ready for the same work.
Teachers pay attention to how each child speaks, plays, follows directions, responds to a lesson, and handles frustration. They give more help when it is needed and extend the activity for a child who is ready to move further.
Children are encouraged to grow from where they are, without being compared to everyone around them.
Our faculty has very low turnover, and many of our teachers have earned their Child Development Associate (CDA) credential. Every staff member completes more than 24 hours of professional development each year, in addition to First Aid and CPR training.
Torah Tots also participates in Nevada’s Quality Rating Improvement System (QRIS), which evaluates our program every two years. We are proud to be recognized as a three-star school.
Parents Stay Close to the Day
Parents receive classroom pictures through WhatsApp every day, often several times during the day. Families get a real look at what their children are learning and enjoying.
Parents of younger children also receive detailed daily notes. Depending on the child’s age, these may include naps, meals, diapering or bathroom times, mood, and how the day went.
As children enter Pre-K, parent-teacher conferences provide time for a fuller conversation about progress and preparation for kindergarten.
The Beginning of the DTA Experience
Torah Tots is part of Desert Torah Academy, giving children the opportunity to remain in one school community as they grow.
Before Pre-K ends, children visit the kindergarten classrooms upstairs and begin getting comfortable with what comes next. Pre-K and kindergarten teachers also meet to discuss each child’s progress, strengths, personality, and needs.
The kindergarten teacher begins the year already knowing something important about each child.
Come See Torah Tots
The best way to understand Torah Tots is to see the classrooms in action.
Meet the teachers. Watch the children learn and play.
Experience the warmth for yourself.