An open house for the Mathews YMCA Preschool, now enrolling students, was held over four days this week, from Monday through Thursday, Aug. 11-14, in advance of the school’s opening day on Monday, Aug. 25.
It is located in space attached to the Westville Baptist Church on Main Street in Mathews.
Visitors got a look at the school’s colorful, cheerful spaces—a nature-themed reading room with bookshelves and plush seats that look like wood stumps, an enrichment room filled with art supplies and interactive play stations, and a classroom with shelves loaded with books and educational toys and a wall of interactive play stations inside playhouses. The dining room, with its child-sized dining tables, will double as a quiet room.
Each room has mural-covered walls and pint-sized furniture, creating an environment sure to draw in even the most reluctant child. A large hallway with hanging lights that look like clouds provides space to drop off children and cubbies to store their belongings.
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