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Directors: Carole W. Korngold and Deirdre Fennessy
The Cloisters
Departs: 8 a.m.
Fee: $50.00 (Lunch included)

For 15 years, CMTE/NY has been providing a Montessori daycare program for the children of Burke Rehabilitation Hospital employees at the Montessori Children’s Center. This model child care center and training site offers a unique opportunity for training, observation, and study. The Center provides year-round Montessori child care, practicums, and work study at infant, toddler, and early childhood levels. At present, 30% of the children are children of Burke employees while 70% come from families in neighboring Westchester communities. The Center has three classrooms: an infant room serving 13 children aged 3 months to 18 months; a toddler room with 19 children aged 18 months to 36 months; and a 3- to 6-year-old room with 30 children. Each classroom is staffed by two Montessori teachers certified at the appropriate level plus three assistants. The 3-6 children visit with hospital patients, mostly stroke victims, twice a week for an hour. Each classroom is designed and furnished to suit the age of the children, receives natural light from big windows, and has an adjoining deck which opens onto the playground area. The 60-acre grounds of the hospital are beautifully landscaped with flowering borders and majestic trees. The Montessori Children’s Center at Burke is an AMS member school.

The Cloisters
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The Cloisters, situated in northern Manhattan’s Fort Tryon Park, house the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection of art and architecture from medieval Europe. The Cloisters offer beautiful tapestries, architectural installations, and fantastic views of the Hudson. The building incorporates elements from five medieval French cloisters—quadrangles enclosed by a roofed or vaulted passageway, or arcade—and from other monastic sites in southern France. Three of the cloisters reconstructed at the branch museum feature gardens planted according to horticultural information found in medieval treatises and poetry, garden documents and herbals, and medieval works of art, including tapestries, stained-glass windows, and column capitals. Approximately 5,000 works of art from medieval Europe, dating from about A.D. 800 with particular emphasis on the 12th through 15th centuries, are exhibited in this unique and sympathetic context.