We’re a child care center and preschool that serves children 6 weeks to 5 years old. Our carefully crafted education programs are individualized to encourage curious, happy, and confident children at every age and stage.
Potomac Music is Northern Virginia’s home for all things music! We offer an award winning Kindermusik program for children ages birth – 7. Join us for one of our weekly classes or playdates! Potomac Music also offers one-on-one lessons on ALL instruments for children ages 5+ and adults, plus lots of small group classes, seasonal camps, bi-weekly Open Mic Nights, FREE outdoor live music during the summer, and best of all we have a wonderful community. We invite you to be a part of it!
Brighterly is an online learning platform that provides math lessons for kids. We focus on innovative teaching strategies, learning through play, and illustrative math examples.
Our math tutors develop independence and logical thinking and promote mathematical discussions. Our goal is to make math engaging, easy to learn, and entertaining.
Now available: Zoom seminar – Encouraging Independence at Home: Kids been home for a bit? Making you feel wacky? I hear ya…lets see what we can do to keep them from climbing the walls and you from literally pulling out your hair. Let’s give the kiddos some activities they can choose from independently and opportunities to safely explore within their environment. We’ll also explore age appropriate responsibilities. 40 minute seminar, $25.
Limited 1:1 consultations by appointment.
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Founded with a passion to improve the lives of early learners, Rhyme to Read aspires to embolden all children with a zeal for reading. As educators, we set out to create an easy-to-use and accessible resource to help young students gain the skills and confidence needed for future success. The Rhyme to Read books and activities are designed to be intuitive, interactive, and inclusive for children of all backgrounds.We have been so humbled by the overwhelming response from parents and teachers that Rhyme to Read has provided the missing link to building a strong literacy foundation for young readers.
Tunes 4 Tots® was established in March of 2014 to provide private in home music lessons for small groups of infants and toddlers. Since opening, Tunes 4 Tots has developed a number of enrichment programs for a wider age range. In addition to expanding their curriculum, Tunes 4 Tots® has expanded their reach by offering classes to the public at multiple locations, as well as serving preschools, elementary schools, and pop-up locations. Tunes 4 Tots® obtained the Registered Trademark in February of 2019. Our 2020 pivot included adding Covid-safe outdoor small group classes and we have been able to serve even more families during a difficult time. Since opening, thousands of children have participated in Tunes 4 Tots® music classes throughout the Washington, DC area and beyond.
The Smithsonian Early Enrichment Center (SEEC), founded in 1988, is a model early childhood program that utilizes the Smithsonian’s vast collections as the foundation for its curriculum. In addition to its school, SEEC serves the broader community through family programs and educator workshops.
Partners in Learning provides educational support to families and independent schools in the D.C. metro area. PIL offers one-on-one tutoring, enrichment, speech-language therapy, behavioral support, assessments, consulting, and professional development.
Specializations include supporting students with specific learning disabilities, attention deficit disorder, receptive/expressive language deficits, students learning English as a second language, and autism. Additionally, PIL offers a variety of workshops to train teachers in supporting students in areas of need.
We enjoy supporting students from a variety of schools and work closely with teachers to align content and ensure students carry over skills from tutoring and speech into the classroom. Some of the schools that our students attend include GDS, St. Patricks, NPS, Landon, St. Albans, Lowell, Maret, Norwood, and public schools in DC, Maryland, and Virginia.
Lowell School is an independent, progressive PK-8th school in Washington, DC. We honor the individuality of each child, give them time and space to grow, and nurture their strengths. A fundamental understanding of the developmental stages of cognitive, social, emotional, and physical growth informs all we do with children. This approach provides the foundation for children to be highly motivated learners with a strong sense of self-worth and efficacy.
We promote active, collaborative learning, emphasizing building conceptual understanding and developing strong creative, critical, and analytical thinking. Carefully designed learning experiences and curricula are integrated across subjects, draw on powerful, relevant content and student interests, and support the development of internal motivation and a strong voice. Learning at Lowell is rigorous: thinking is emphasized over rote learning, and students are expected to use their knowledge and skills creatively and practically.
Lowell also offers a robust and exciting summer camp to members of the broader DMV that encourages children ages 3 to 15 to grow self-awareness and confidence while learning to play and work well with others. Campers participate in various activities, make new friends, and explore their interests in deliberately small groups. This low counselor-to-camper ratio, and our dedication to having a range of backgrounds within our camp community, create a relaxed and informal environment where campers can expand their horizons purposefully and safely.
Our eight-acre campus is in the Shepherd Park/Colonial Village neighborhood and borders Rock Creek Park.
CommuniKids Language Immersion Preschool offers full-day Spanish immersion in DC for children 18 months to 2 /12 years of age. As part of the DC’s Enhancement and Expansion Program, DC residents can enter lottery and get FREE PreK 3 and 4. Our programs are NAEYC accredited which is the gold standard in early childhood education. Our Falls Church Location offers your choice of Spanish, French, or Mandarin Immersion programs for children 2 1/2 to 5 years of age. All locations offer before and aftercare, weekly language classes, afterschool programs, and summer camps.
Help your child connect to other kids and learn through outdoor play. In this new class, a certified Tinkergarten Leader guides the group through an engaging 30-min online session, introducing a new play lesson each week. Each lesson supports a different aspect of creativity and inspires hours of purposeful play at home. You get easy activity guides and Q&A with your Leader to help you support your child’s learning, too.
With weekday, weekend, morning and afternoon classes, Circle Time is a joyful and enriching compliment to any learning program this fall!
The Montessori School of Chevy Chase is accepting applications for the 2021/2022 school year.
We offer:
- Toddler Program for 18 months – 2.6 years
- English Primary for 2.6 – Kindergarten
- French Immersion for 2.6 – Kindergarten
Learning Leaf is a unique Reggio-Emilia Approach inspired child development center providing exceptional care for Infants (6 weeks) to Pre-K. We offer safe and loving individualized care, small classes, high teacher to student ratios, Kindergarten pre-readiness, use of STEAM, sign language, music enrichment, extracurriculars, and other unique curricula offerings. We are open Monday through Friday, from 7:00 am to 6:00 pm.
Teach your child to read with an easy and fun online reading phonics program that you and your kids can work together at your own pace.
EdCoSpace uses a family-centered coaching process to support the development of your youngest family members, ages birth through five years old. We take the guesswork out of supporting your child’s emotional, social and academic development so you can spend your time enjoying your family instead of researching the ‘how-tos’ of parenting; think of us as your curating parenting fairies!
Hello DC Area Moms! My name is Claudia Smistek and I am a research assistant at BL2. We are doing a research project on how children learn over time. Here is more information listed below if you are interested:
Are you interested in how children learn? We at the Brain and Language Center for Neuroimaging (BL2) are too! We are part of the National Science Foundation and Gallaudet University’s Science of Learning Center, Visual Language and Visual Learning (VL2). In our BL2 Center, we are conducting a study on how [deaf and hearing children] learn, particularly in the areas of language, reading, and other higher cognitive functions (attention and emotion).
We are recruiting children [that have no hearing loss, use hearing aids, or use cochlear implants]. [Both monolingual (English) or bilingual (English/ASL) who will soon enter the 1st grade are invited to participate]. We will test them before and after their first year of primary schooling. Our studies are designed to be a fun opportunity for both parents and children.
Children will play science games while we measure their brain activity using harmless light (safe with hearing aids and cochlear implants) and their temperature using a thermal camera (touchless). This study has been reviewed and approved by the Institutional Review Board at Gallaudet University. Participation is entirely voluntary.
We will pay $20 per hour for your participation and travel to/from our BL2 Center. Children will also receive a small toy!
Thank you for your time and consideration. Please feel free to call our lab at (202) 618-6808 or email us at [email protected] if you have any questions or would like to schedule an appointment.
We are a LIVE virtual program working to meet the needs of families with children ages 0-5 years. You can explore our classes with our VESS Curriculum – approved by the Florida School Readiness Program and recognized worldwide for its evidence-based approach to the development of the whole child. Our online program provides children 0-5 years old with the richest and most wholesome early learning experience at home.
Our professional educators have developed a complete experience-based program that targets all academic areas to get children feeling ready and excited about kindergarten, while having in mind that life goes way beyond academics and should also nurture life-long love for learning, independence and an array of Thinking Skills. Literacy, math and science, are all targeted. We are confident that children learn best through fun, hands-on, minds-on exploration, novelty, collaboration, bonding and connection to real life. These concepts are core to any of our classes. Concept Maps, Graphs, Visible Thinking and other brain-based teaching strategies are utilized to help children truly learn and develop their young minds.
Our virtual preschool program fits any family’s schedule, needs and interests. The goal of our program is to promote literacy, mathematical and scientific skills in an engaging hands-on, minds-on format that excites children about learning, getting them ready to thrive in kindergarten and beyond. Children 3-5 years explore academic concepts hands-on and minds-on through cooking, engineering, performing science experiments and exploring books together, allowing them to experience how these concepts work in real life.
Our teachers provide a wholesome learning experience that prepares children academically while also developing critical Thinking Skills: a problem solving mindset, creativity and innovation, analytical skills, a love for learning, social skills, and independence.
Our complete program provides approximately 2 daily hours of live class time in small groups of 11 children divided by age. All classes are offered in 3 different schedules daily. Younger children are offered shorter class times to fit their levels of readiness and interest, all the while including all of these concepts. We currently offer a 2 week free trial.
Seeking Child Participants for Studies at Georgetown University!
Dear DC Area Moms,
We are the Learning and Development Lab at Georgetown University: a group of researchers studying language learning and child development. We need your help to understand how children learn!
At our lab, we use simple games and activities to understand how children learn languages and other patterns. Our research is made possible through the support of families like yours. We are looking for children between the ages of 4 and 9 to participate in our research studies.
Participating is easy! Right now, all of our studies are conducted online. In the study that we are running right now, your child will learn a made-up language (we call it Silly Speak) by playing a computer game online (with our help). The study consists of two parts, each 20-30 minutes long, which take place on different days. We offer $20 compensation per child.
If you’d like your child to participate in our studies, or if you’d like us to contact you about future opportunities to participate, please sign up at this link: https://bit.ly/3wZORTl
If you could please share this message with parents in your group, we would really appreciate it. We look forward to hearing from you!
Best,
The Research Team at the Learning and Development Lab, Georgetown University