Daycare recommendations in Silver Spring area

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Anonymous wrote:We live in Silver Spring and go to Norwood Park Preschool in Chevy Chase, MD - though it's only for 2-5 year olds, and runs from 9:00am - 12pm or 2:30pm.

So not terribly helpful for the OP.....

I agree you may not be able to get both kids in somewhere together right away. If you can get the 2yo into a center like Karasik, Circle Time,or Bright Horizons you will get prioity for the infant. You could do a nanny share in the meantime. In home daycares are another option but even then the good ones do not typically have a lot of openings.

That's what we did. I had the older at Karasik and the younger at Family Academy (awful) until the baby got off the wait list. It didn't take too long, and it was worth the wait.

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Anonymous wrote:For my own experience , I don’t think buenos amigos daycare has knowledgeable staff.

I disagree. We been there for about 10 months now and my LO loves all her teachers. They're a bilingual daycare (spanish/english). Some of the junior staff are primarily spanish speakers, which is a plus or minus based on your abilities. Nonetheless, I appreciate that LO has opportunity to learn multiple languages before K.

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Anonymous wrote:For my own experience , I don’t think buenos amigos daycare has knowledgeable staff.

I disagree too!

My children attended 6 years buenos amigos and we couldn't be happier with the staff, the curriculum and the clean and loving environment. My second child graduated last August from the preschool class and we were happily surprised at how well prepared she was for kindergarten.

All families stay at BA at least 2-3 years and we know each other very well. I personally don't think the above comment was made by any current or former BA family.

We are not fluent in Spanish but did not have any problem communicating with the junior class teachers, their English may be basic, but that doesn't mean they are not knowledgeable caretakers. They are professional at what they do and that was enough for us.

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Buenos amigos has such a long waitlist that they are opening a new center this month. The next opening would be in Fall 2020 for people who aren't in the new one I think

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I’m interested in this too. Please keep posting! I need places that have summer, full day care (so I don’t think SSDS or Rock Creek from this list would work). Please add more recommendations that fit the bill!

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Anonymous wrote:Buenos amigos has such a long waitlist that they are opening a new center this month. The next opening would be in Fall 2020 for people who aren't in the new one I think

Yeah we recently contacted them looking for a spot for my infant when our original daycare went through, and they weren't even taking names for the waitlist anymore, that's how long it was!

I heard a rumor that MCCA Kensington-Forest Glen was going to open an infant room (and eliminate the after school program?). Does anyone have any intel on his? Wondering how they plan to fill the spots.....

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Buenos amigos has such a long waitlist that they are opening a new center this month. The next opening would be in Fall 2020 for people who aren't in the new one I think

Yeah we recently contacted them looking for a spot for my infant when our original daycare went through, and they weren't even taking names for the waitlist anymore, that's how long it was!

I heard a rumor that MCCA Kensington-Forest Glen was going to open an infant room (and eliminate the after school program?). Does anyone have any intel on his? Wondering how they plan to fill the spots.....

Yes, MCCA-KFG is eliminating the school-aged classroom (it's consistently under-enrolled, from what I understand, because most kids got to before/aftercare at the elementary schools) and adding an 18-to-24 month classroom. So--not infants, but younger than any of their current classrooms, which start at age 2. The director didn't say when this would happen. They will not be doing Summer Adventures this summer (the school-age day camp program) so my guess is maybe they'll start the new classroom over the summer?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Buenos amigos has such a long waitlist that they are opening a new center this month. The next opening would be in Fall 2020 for people who aren't in the new one I think

Yeah we recently contacted them looking for a spot for my infant when our original daycare went through, and they weren't even taking names for the waitlist anymore, that's how long it was!

I heard a rumor that MCCA Kensington-Forest Glen was going to open an infant room (and eliminate the after school program?). Does anyone have any intel on his? Wondering how they plan to fill the spots.....

Yes, MCCA-KFG is eliminating the school-aged classroom (it's consistently under-enrolled, from what I understand, because most kids got to before/aftercare at the elementary schools) and adding an 18-to-24 month classroom. So--not infants, but younger than any of their current classrooms, which start at age 2. The director didn't say when this would happen. They will not be doing Summer Adventures this summer (the school-age day camp program) so my guess is maybe they'll start the new classroom over the summer?

My DD is on the waitlist for the 18-24 month class and I believe they said it will open in June.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Buenos amigos has such a long waitlist that they are opening a new center this month. The next opening would be in Fall 2020 for people who aren't in the new one I think

Yeah we recently contacted them looking for a spot for my infant when our original daycare went through, and they weren't even taking names for the waitlist anymore, that's how long it was!

I heard a rumor that MCCA Kensington-Forest Glen was going to open an infant room (and eliminate the after school program?). Does anyone have any intel on his? Wondering how they plan to fill the spots.....

Yes, MCCA-KFG is eliminating the school-aged classroom (it's consistently under-enrolled, from what I understand, because most kids got to before/aftercare at the elementary schools) and adding an 18-to-24 month classroom. So--not infants, but younger than any of their current classrooms, which start at age 2. The director didn't say when this would happen. They will not be doing Summer Adventures this summer (the school-age day camp program) so my guess is maybe they'll start the new classroom over the summer?

My DD is on the waitlist for the 18-24 month class and I believe they said it will open in June.

NP- Interesting. I don't see anything about this on their website. We are on the waitlist for the 2yo program and they didn't say anything about this to us when we toured and got on the waitlist. Do you know if it's a separate waitlist for the 18-24 month program? I'll have to contact them. Guessing it will mostly be filled by siblings of current families anyway.

[Anonymous]

Monday Morning Moms can be a good resource, depending where exactly you are looking for care- IME they have more providers further out in the burbs than close-in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Buenos amigos has such a long waitlist that they are opening a new center this month. The next opening would be in Fall 2020 for people who aren't in the new one I think

Yeah we recently contacted them looking for a spot for my infant when our original daycare went through, and they weren't even taking names for the waitlist anymore, that's how long it was!

I heard a rumor that MCCA Kensington-Forest Glen was going to open an infant room (and eliminate the after school program?). Does anyone have any intel on his? Wondering how they plan to fill the spots.....

Yes, MCCA-KFG is eliminating the school-aged classroom (it's consistently under-enrolled, from what I understand, because most kids got to before/aftercare at the elementary schools) and adding an 18-to-24 month classroom. So--not infants, but younger than any of their current classrooms, which start at age 2. The director didn't say when this would happen. They will not be doing Summer Adventures this summer (the school-age day camp program) so my guess is maybe they'll start the new classroom over the summer?

My DD is on the waitlist for the 18-24 month class and I believe they said it will open in June.

NP- Interesting. I don't see anything about this on their website. We are on the waitlist for the 2yo program and they didn't say anything about this to us when we toured and got on the waitlist. Do you know if it's a separate waitlist for the 18-24 month program? I'll have to contact them. Guessing it will mostly be filled by siblings of current families anyway.

I was on the waitlist for the 2yo program and I think they automatically added us to the 18-24 month program based on her age.