Somerville has a wide variety of both Center-Based child care programs, and Family child care programs.
Center and School-Based programs may have one classroom or multiple classrooms and take place in a designated space outside of the home.
Family Child Care programs are usually smaller and take place in a provider’s home.
We have 9 years of experience in early childhood, 0-5 years old. Learning should be fun. We help children feel happy and excited about the day ahead. Your child will be regularly assessed to assure that she is meeting developmental milestones and is progressing in her education. Our curriculum is in Portuguese and English.
My program consists of arts and crafts, music, circle time, and going to the Cambridge and Somerville Public libraries for sing along and story time. We also visit parks around the Cambridge and Somerville areas. We celebrate the holidays and each child's birthday.
West Family Day Care is a mixed-age, play, project, and relationship based program. We serve ten children at a time, including some school age children after school and during school vacations, in addition to our primary mix of toddlers and preschoolers. Our space offers the best of school and home in a first floor apartment converted for use as a child care program, with full use of our back porch and shaded yard. We enjoy connections to community and nature on our daily walks to local parks and regular visits to the Alewife Brook. We offer a range of art, science, building, dramatic play, cooking, and natural materials and ample time for involved projects and deep play indoors and out. All our caregivers are experienced and trained and live locally, with a ratio of two caregivers to ten children. We provide homemade meals and snacks, served family style. For more information, call the number listed below or email: maria.k.west@gmail.com.
The Learning Circle provides a loving, safe, healthy, fun, anti-bias, multi-cultural, educational, and developmentally / individually appropriate environment with a friendly focus. Enrollment age ranges from two months to six years of age.
Our goal is to provide a healthy, safe and learning environment in which children can grow and develop with the nurturing support and guidance of our teachers, staff and parents. It is our commitment to provide the highest quality child care and the best early education to the children and families we serve.
Dandelion Montessori is a collaborative community of Montessori learners, ages 2.9 through 6 years, educators and families in Somerville, MA. Established in 2015 as a coop community for toddlers, Dandelion is a Wildflower Network School, an innovative approach to Montessori education started by the Social Computing Group at the MIT Media Lab. We believe children to be intrinsically good, intrinsically peaceful and intrinsically motivated to learn. At Dandelion, children and adults work together to create a peaceful, cooperative, loving, and joyful learning environment.
The Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care also provides a searchable database of licensed childcare programs in all areas.
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