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Infant & Young Toddler

The infant and young toddler program is part of Seattle Jewish Montessori's Montessori-based preschool, where children learn using the Montessori methodology in a warm and joyful environment. The program integrates Jewish education throughout the day, with mixed-age classrooms and a curriculum emphasizing practical life skills, sensorial development, mathematics, and language arts.

Toddler

The toddler program is part of MMSC's Montessori preschool, which integrates Jewish education with Montessori methodology. Children engage in skill-building activities in a warm environment designed to develop self-esteem, confidence, and independence, with mixed-age classrooms fostering cooperation and peer learning.

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Toddler

The toddler program is part of Seola Gardens' Head Start and Early Head Start center-based early learning offering, which provides no-cost classes to prepare students for kindergarten.

Preschool

The preschool program is part of Neighborhood House's Head Start and Early Head Start center-based early learning services, designed to prepare students for kindergarten.

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First Place Preschool operates small classes with a student-centered approach emphasizing nurturing and personalized instruction in a culturally responsive learning environment. The program provides meals, before and after school childcare, and field trips, with full scholarships available.

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Toddler

The toddler program supports children's physical, cognitive, language, and social-emotional development through safe, child-proofed spaces, age-appropriate materials for exploration and play, and consistent routines paired with opportunities for independence. Caregivers provide nurturing guidance and regular communication with families to support developmental milestones.

Pre-School

The preschool program is a theme-based curriculum in which children learn through age-appropriate activities following an anti-bias approach. Teachers facilitate learning by moving through interest centers, asking thought-provoking questions, and encouraging exploration while allowing each child to choose how they participate.

Infants

The infant program provides individualized attention and engaging activities in a warm and loving environment. Focus areas include bonding and trust through cuddles and songs, stimulating development across language, cognitive, motor, and sensory skills, and personalized care supported by low teacher-to-child ratios.

Toddlers

The toddler program focuses on discovery through play, music, art, and engaging activities that develop essential skills. The program emphasizes playful exploration, early learning through music and storytelling, and building independence including self-help skills.

Infant

The infant program serves children from birth through 12 months as part of Seed of Life's multicultural early childhood education center. The program incorporates cultural traditions and social justice themes within a research-based curriculum, with staff who speak multiple languages including Spanish, Somali, Amharic, and Vietnamese to support home languages in the classroom.

Waddlers

The Waddlers program is part of Seed of Life's multicultural early childhood education offering. The program incorporates cultural traditions and research-based curricula, with staff speaking multiple languages including Spanish, Somali, Amharic, and Vietnamese to support children's home languages and diverse heritages.

Infant Classrooms

The Infant Classrooms are part of La Escuelita's dual-language program, where bilingual and bicultural staff develop individualized curriculum for each child. The program uses a dual language model to foster development of English and Spanish skills, with learning taking place throughout the day in both languages.

Waddler Classrooms

The Waddler Classrooms are part of La Escuelita's dual-language education program, where experienced bilingual, bicultural staff build a curriculum tailored to each child's development. The program emphasizes English and Spanish language acquisition alongside cultural awareness and positive peer relationships.

Firefighters

The Firefighters preschool program is part of Smart Start's play-based curriculum that engages children across language, literacy, art, music, science, and outdoor play. The program includes French instruction twice weekly, yoga taught by the owner who is a licensed yoga teacher, and thematic learning experiences that integrate academic concepts with creative exploration.

Forest Rangers

The Astronauts preschool classroom features a play-based, thematic curriculum that integrates literature, art, science, and music alongside French instruction and yoga. The program emphasizes social-emotional development and self-regulation, with teachers facilitating learning through hands-on activities and small group work as children progress at their own pace.

Infant

The infant program uses the RIE (Resources for Infant Educarers) approach, which emphasizes respect for the infant's physical person and trust in the infant's agency. RIE guides carefully observe each child's natural cues and support their needs with skilled responses that foster self-awareness, self-advocacy, and self-agency, preparing them for the Montessori classroom experiences that follow.

Toddler

The toddler program applies Montessori principles, with credentialed teachers trained in a rigorous approach that integrates brain development with social-emotional and motor development. The program builds on the RIE foundation from the infant classroom, emphasizing respect, careful observation, and support for each child's independence and curiosity.

Sequoia Room

The Sequoia Room is Kidspace's infant program with a 3:1 teacher-to-child ratio. Children in this classroom engage with music, dance, Spanish, and sign language through visiting teachers, receive healthy meals and snacks prepared on-site, and benefit from a teaching team committed to supporting each child's individual learning and independence.

Willow Room

The Willow Room is Kidspace's waddler program with a 3½:1 teacher-to-child ratio. The classroom prioritizes a warm, nurturing environment where children learn through sensory experiences and are supported as independent decision-makers.

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The infant program offers developmentally appropriate curriculum organized around four categories: physical experience with motor activities, listening and talking experiences including books and songs, creative exploration with arts and crafts, and learning from the world through sensory activities.

Waddler/toddler Program

The toddler program uses Creative Curriculum, a nationally recognized research-based model that focuses on meeting each child's basic needs, fostering social-emotional development, building relationships, and supporting cognition and brain development.

Early Head Start Program

The infant program within Children's Academy of Seattle's Spanish immersion educational center, where native Spanish-speaking teachers support language acquisition in a nurturing environment.

Head Start Program - Toddlers

The Head Start Program for toddlers is part of Early Head Start, a federally funded community-based program offering Spanish immersion instruction. The program provides comprehensive services including health and developmental screenings, higher health and safety standards, and increased parent engagement opportunities in a nurturing, respectful environment.

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Infants

The infant program offers a calm, nurturing environment with low teacher-to-child ratios and individualized care, featuring sensory exploration and gentle introduction to Spanish through daily routines, songs, and loving communication.

Waddlers/toddlers

The Waddlers/Toddlers program offers a language-rich environment where children engage in hands-on play, music, movement, and creative experiences within the school's Spanish immersion setting. With intentional routines and guided exploration, children build independence, curiosity, and early language skills.

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Preschool

Epiphany Early Learning is a play-based, Reggio Emilia-inspired preschool where relationship and emergent curriculum are central to the program. Teachers observe children's play and interests to support projects that arise from the children themselves, supported by educators with BA and MA degrees in early childhood education.

Infant Care Program

The Infant Care Program provides a nurturing environment with tailored activities supported by specialized staff. Teachers develop responsive daily routines focused on language development through music and interactive play, gross and fine motor skill development, cognitive growth, emotional safety, and early social connections.

Waddler Room

The Waddler Room supports children through critical early developmental milestones, with activities emphasizing gross and fine motor skills, sensory discovery, language advancement, introduction to the arts, and early self-reliance, alongside group activities that foster social connections and interactive learning.

Preschool-Kindergarten

Chelsea House Montessori Preschool uses the Montessori method to create a carefully planned, stimulating environment where children develop foundational attitudes, habits, and skills for creative thinking and lifelong learning. The program emphasizes fun, independence, responsibility, and respect.

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