Watertown Preschools

Peapod Daycare is a family child care service provider located in the Newton area serving children from 3 months to school age. We specialize in bilingual care (English and Mandarin).

SolBe is an early learning center that re-imagines traditional notions of child care and nursery school. Our name defines our purpose: "sol" from the Spanish word meaning sun and the English word "be", combining into a name meaning "to be full of light". Learning is not the filling of a cup, but the lighting of a fire.

We aim to create the highest quality early learning experiences through a seed-to-table nutrition program, thoughtfully designed facilities, especially-trained-for-this-work educators, and a school culture influenced by the Reggio Emilia approach integrated with Spanish immersion.

Your wellness and the wellness of your child shouldn't be a question of either/or. SolBe is an early learning center committed to yes/and. Our dynamic program continually adapts and improves as we nurture healthy, engaged lives for children and adults.

The SolBe educational philosophy is heavily influenced by the Reggio Emilia approach; we believe children to be competent and capable citizens of our society. As such, we are careful to craft experiences and learning opportunities based on what we observe about children. We constantly look for opportunities to scaffold children s learning, which encourages them to be active participants in their learning experiences. This means allowing children the freedom to play and explore on their own accord, and the educator taking a role as a guide instead of the traditional gatekeeper of knowledge.

Our educational philosophy also encompasses best practices related to language immersion education. We are a Spanish language immersion program, which means that our day-to-day activities happen in Spanish. We value bilingual learning- and the cognitive and social emotional benefits which bilingualism promotes.

Attention has been paid to the interactions between the physical learning environment and children, as well as how the environment impacts the interactions between educators and children. Our spaces have been intentionally designed to shift to the changing needs and emotions of the humans who use them. We re inspired by the Montessori method and its attention to beautiful home-like environments, which is reflected in our design.

Our seed-to-table nutrition program is another element of our educational philosophy. Research shows that when children are active participants in the growing and preparation of their food, they are more likely to try, and enjoy, new foods. Children participate in a food preparation task daily.

Our experts designed our classrooms — and every activity and lesson — to help prepare your child for success in school and beyond. With designated learning centers such as dramatic play and blocks in every classroom, children have the opportunity for rich social play and child-initiated discovery. You’ll also find that our classrooms feature a print-rich environment full of carefully selected materials, written charts and labels, and children’s literature. By helping your child connect spoken words and print, we’re helping develop early literacy and writing skills. Whether your child has first words or first grade on the horizon, we’re excited to show you how everything in our center is designed for learning!!

Our experts designed our classrooms - and every activity and lesson - to help prepare your child for success in school and beyond. With designated learning centers such as dramatic play and blocks in every classroom, children have the opportunity for rich social play and child-initiated discovery.
You’ll also find that our classrooms feature a print-rich environment full of carefully selected materials, written charts and labels, and children’s literature. By helping your child connect spoken words and print, we’re helping develop early literacy and writing skills.
Whether your child has first words or first grade on the horizon, we’re excited to show you how everything in our center is designed for learning!
Vanessa Freeman, Center Director

The Learning Tree, formerly known as The Wonder Years, is a fully licensed preschool and group daycare center established since 1997.

Our goal is to provide the best quality care for children ages 15 months to 6 years old. We do this by providing a caring, nurturing and safe educational environment. The Learning Tree Preschool is a home like environment where children are encouraged to develop at their own pace. We believe our program has achieved the proper balance between academics and play. We believe that children learn best from meaningful play. Our play based and academically structured, child centered program reflects the integration of physical, cognitive, social, emotional, language, self-help and aesthetic areas for the total development of the child. Meaningful play encourages curiosity, discovery and problem solving which allows individual growth and development of a positive self-image.

Little Kids Academy is an English/Japanese bilingual preschool located in Belmont, MA. Everyone matters at LKA. We will make sure you can drop your child(ren) off with us with peace of mind and know that your child is safe and loved.

Currently we are accepting enrollment for the 2018-2019 school year.

Please contact shiota@littlekidsacademy.org for more information or tour.

Here at Diki Shining Star, it is our mission to provide a high quality early childhood program in a safe, nurturing, and happy environment where children can develop to their greatest potential. Our little students will build skills, confidence, and a love of learning through age appropriate activities designed to ensure that each child reaches his/her individual potential. The Tibetan values of patience and compassion will introduce to teach children how to interact harmoniously with other children, adults, animals, insects, and nature around us. Through daily practice of basic meditation and yoga we will guide our students to manage their social emotional needs and ultimately to help them grow up into happy, healthy, caring citizens of the world.

Join Cambridge's early childhood innovation center. Imagine a place where children are encouraged to make mistakes, two-year-olds are learning how to play the violin, and teachers are encouraging children to explore the limits of their potential.

Rock and Roll Daycare and Montessori Preschool is a music based early childhood innovation center for children ages 0-6. We seek to create an environment where children engage in planned and improvised musical activities everyday, enjoy the freedom of an extended Montessori work period each day, and where parents can observe their child's classroom from the convenience of their cell phone.

Children are encouraged to explore a specifically prepared, child sized environment at their own pace, while also participating in a range of music and arts based activities such as extended music classes every day with one of our five specialists, one-on-one private music lessons, monthly student performances, and bi-monthly professional concerts.

Now with three locations in East Cambridge, Lechmere, and Central Square, Rock and Roll Daycare is one of New England's fastest growing learning centers.

Lemberg CC is a national model for excellence -- NAEYC Accredited and MA Department of EEC awarded Universal Pre-Kindergarten

- Boston Magazine: One of the Best Schools
- For children ages 2 months to 6 years
- Adult to child ratio 1:3 for infants and toddlers, and 1:4 for preschool - 70 children enrolled full time each day
- Highly experienced teachers, several with over 20 years experience
- Each classroom has a head teacher with an MA in ECE
- Speech and Language, Early Intervention and other specialists on staff

Emergent Curriculum and Project Model Approach
"We learn while doing the things we love"
For Progress Reporting and Child Portfolios, we use High Scope COR Advantage.

LCC has programs for training ECE professionals, and is the American Psych. Association's ACT Raising Safe Kids Northeast Regional Training Center. We have programs for parenting education and for training parent group facilitators.