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HAPPY NEW YEAR! Square One Kids Academy is working fast and hard to complete the set-up of all our classrooms for an Open House planned for January 16th.

The Heights School Tricky Tray was so nicely done…and what a fun time our Director had that evening! We hope everyone enjoyed the little goody bags we made for each guest at the tables. Who doesn’t love chocolate? Construction work was in full swing through the holidays of Thanksgiving and Christmas. Our great team of contractors have met the target of complete construction by the end of the year! We were pleased to contribute to Oakland’s Breakfast with Santa on December 5th. What a fun event! It was also a great way to get our name advertised. Hoping to meet more families soon! We attended The Annual Christmas Tree and Menorah Lighting in town. It was nice to meet some of Oakland’s residents and watch the children perform as well. MERRY CHRISTMAS and HAPPY HANNUKAH! Most of our furniture has arrived, assembled and organized. Looking forward to the New Year! [...]

Felicia Thomas, an Oakland resident and preschool teacher, joins our Square One team as Director. We are so excited to have her on board and look forward to many years of working together!! Please visit Our Team page on the website for more information about her background.

So much work and effort has been ongoing with acquiring the required permits to begin construction work for our school. The architect has helped us design an amazing school with everything we had envisioned including my very favorite on-site library and a large indoor playroom! We have also been meeting and interviewing for a Director of the school. We hope to be able to recruit someone local and many years of teaching experience and who shares our views about the school.

Over the last several months, we have been scouting for a location for our preschool and daycare along with Susan Priesler, our real estate agent. And finally we have found a place we fell in love with instantly. It is in Oakland, NJ, a very family oriented town. The place is huge, open, lots of windows and sky lights and a great landlord, Bill Bonzulak.

Partners Sejal Patel and Hetal Selarka along with daycare consultant Dina Cipolat, decided to start looking for locations, primarily in Northern Jersey to start a child day care focused on providing high quality care and service with a focus on creative education.