Silverman Preschool

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Silverman Preschool in San Carlos, San Diego, has operated for more than 70 years at Tifereth Israel Synagogue, 6660 Cowles Mountain Boulevard, in the 92119 ZIP, under Community Care License #372001648 and #376701134. Director Amy Stanley oversees two program tiers: the Ginsburg Infant Center for children six weeks through two years at a 1:4 teacher-to-child ratio, and the preschool program for ages two through five at a 1:12 ratio. The curriculum integrates Jewish heritage and tradition — weekly Shabbat, Tot Shabbat, Family Shabbat, and High Holiday celebrations — with a play-based emergent learning model that lets children direct their own inquiry while teachers scaffold new challenges. Enrichment programming rotates through cooking, gardening, music, yoga, Playball, and Hebrew lessons on a weekly cycle, and the families building extracurricular schedules around the preschool connect to the physical-arts corridor at Villanueva Grappling Arts in nearby San Carlos for introductory kids' martial-arts programs. A Transitional Kindergarten class called Gesher — Hebrew for "bridge" — prepares the oldest cohort for kindergarten entry with structured academic-readiness work. Two-day, three-day, and five-day enrollment options accommodate varying family schedules, and military subsidy programs and sibling pricing adjustments are accepted. No toilet training is required for enrollment in the preschool program. The broader San Carlos arts-enrichment corridor includes Art Smarts, which picks up creative programming for school-age children beyond the preschool years. Silverman's seven-decade presence on Cowles Mountain Boulevard has built a multigenerational enrollment base, with alumni returning as parents to enroll their own children in the same program.