Play is the major activity of all young children and the basic ingredient of their learning. It is the medium for self-expression in the way each child organizes and makes sense of the world. To play is to invent, hypothesize, test, and discover. It provides the most permanent and meaningful learning of cognitive concepts. Play promotes social values. Social sensitivity is not something that is suddenly achieved. It is a slow process that involves learning how to share, cooperate, and empathize with others, building interpersonal trust and emotional maturity. We provide a large variety of constructive, dramatic, and creative materials and experiences to facilitate this growth. Our programs are carefully designed to meet the individual child’s needs and to promote continuous growth in the social, emotional, intellectual, physical and creative areas of development. Our programs emphasize the development of a positive Jewish identity through experiences involving Shabbat, Jewish holidays, blessings, culture and values. The Hebrew Educational Alliance Preschool is guided by its rabbis, synagogue education department and lay leaders, and ascribes to the rabbinic teaching: The world is sustained through Torah, Avodah – worship, and Gemilut Hasadim – acts of loving kindness. - Pirke Avot 1:2.