Full time daycare/preschool for 2.5 next Fall in Silverspring/Takoma

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sorry to be that person, but what is the point of mentioning your household income?

Everybody has a budget, but you have to know how high your household income is relative to the vast majority of your neighbors.

Because some bright person will chime in to say OP should hire a nanny.

I understand “a nanny isn’t in our budget,” which can depend on many factors/ individual family discretion, but the income adds no color here. Plenty of people on that income employ a nanny.

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Anonymous wrote:Karasik near Forest Glen.
It’s a daycare but they follow Creative Curriculum and start preschool for the threes. We’ve been there for a year and it’s amazing. Tuition is also reasonable.

The teachers at Karasik were great. The admin/accounting department was so unprofessinal beyond belief and we (and many families we knew) left.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Karasik near Forest Glen.
It’s a daycare but they follow Creative Curriculum and start preschool for the threes. We’ve been there for a year and it’s amazing. Tuition is also reasonable.

The teachers at Karasik were great. The admin/accounting department was so unprofessinal beyond belief and we (and many families we knew) left.

We have been there for over a year and have not encountered any admin issues. Their leadership completely changed over a couple of years ago. Maybe that has something to do with it.

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We have had two kids at Kids Adventures preschool (located at Takoma Park Elementary) and we LOVE it!!!

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What is creative curriculum?

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You have a lot of good options, OP, so my only recommendation is not to get super hung up on the specifics of the curriculum. If it's only for preK, then there's really not much difference between CC and ER or even Montessori. Pick a place that is convenient to you, affordable for your family, and where at least a handful of kids would usually go to your neighborhood ES.

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What is CC and ER?

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Anonymous wrote:What is CC and ER?

CC is Creative Curriculum. It’s a preschool curriculum that’s play based and pretty cool. I loved it for my kid who had it.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is CC and ER?

CC is Creative Curriculum. It’s a preschool curriculum that’s play based and pretty cool. I loved it for my kid who had it.

Thank you!

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Anonymous wrote:How does creative curriculum compare to Montessori?

Totally, completely, different.

Creative Curriculum is a curriculum put together and followed strictly: on this week we are studying recycling, so the classrooms will do activities A, B and C and read books X, Y, and Z. Next week we are studying trees, with specific activities, books and materials used for tree week (or sometimes they do the same theme for 2 weeks). it wants the activities to be developmentally appropriate, but it isn't a philosophy of how and what children learn, how the teachers work with the children, etc.

Montessori is a philosophy that has certain beliefs in how a child learns, who a child is as a preschooler, what should be in their environment, hat types of materials to use in the classroom and how they are used, the reasoning for how they are used, how a teacher acts and behaves, and how to offer materials and why.

The Reggio Emiilia Approach is a philosophy that has certain beliefs in how a child learns, who a child is as a preschooler, what should be in their environment, hat types of materials to use in the classroom and how they are used, the reasoning for how they are used, how a teacher acts and behaves, and how to offer materials and why.