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Make the First Five Years Count
We’re more than a Bethesda daycare. We know how young children learn best, which is why our Balanced Learning® approach combines plenty of purposeful play with nurturing guidance from teachers.
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Our Classrooms & Programs
Our time-tested approach to early childhood education is designed to foster good character and grow social and emotional skills while also building literacy, and math skills.
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Apple of Our Eye: Ms. Anna
Apple of Our Eye: Ms. Anna. Ms. Anna's kindness and compassion shines through in everything she does, creating a supportive and nurturing learning environment for her students. Her commitment to excellence and her willingness to go above and beyond to ensure our success does not go unnoticed. From innovative teaching methods to engaging activities, she never fails to keep her students captivated and eager to learn. Thank you for being such an amazing teacher and for making a difference in the lives of your students every day. ![gallery slider image 1](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsettings.primroseschools.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2024%2F01%2FScreen-Shot-2024-06-21-at-4.42.07-PM-1.png&w=3840&q=75)
At Primrose, our students had a wonderful time learning about food today! Our teachers encourage healthy habits in children early on since it is essential to their future health and success. That’s why we developed our Balanced Menus program, which exposes our students to a variety of healthy foods and ensures they get the proper balance of fruit, vegetables and whole grains while in school. They rolled play-dough to create their own dishes, discovering shapes and sizes along the way. It was a great opportunity to develop their fine motor skills as they used their hands to craft various types of food.
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At Primrose, our toddler program provides a curriculum to help set a foundation to ensure that our infants reach their milestones and achieve the support they need to reach their full potential. Toddlers draw on social-emotional, language, motor, and perceptual experiences and abilities for cognitive development. They are attuned to relationships between features of objects, actions, and the physical environment. Our classrooms use objects such as books and learning blocks to learn about different kind of animals and make real world connections. Our children love to read and learn about new information.
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The Primrose Balanced Learning® curriculum supports children’s innate desire to learn through investigation and experimentation. In the classroom, intentional experiences introduce little ones to new concepts and ideas in engaging ways. And the exploration doesn’t stop there.
Primrose teachers are trained to observe each child’s interests and learning style, which they then use to extend learning. For example, if a child expresses curiosity about plants during a lesson, the teacher will pose questions to encourage him to explore the subject further and reach his own conclusions, while sharing facts and information to enrich his understanding.
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Primrose Schools' Harmony & Heart program is a proprietary approach to music and literacy that helps children develop into better listeners, more dynamic thinkers, and kinder people. The program combines music and children's books to help children learn about rhythm, melody, and other concepts. It also helps children develop confidence, independence, and strong character.
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Encouraging healthy habits in children at Primrose early on is essential to their future health and success. That’s why we developed our Balanced Menus program, which exposes our students to a variety of healthy foods and ensures they get the proper balance of fruit, vegetables and whole grains while in school.
We encourage children try new foods on the menu on a regular basis, as research shows children are more likely to accept a new food if it’s offered 10-15 times, though we always respect a child’s preferences and will never make him eat anything he doesn’t want to. We’ve also built several lessons and experiences into our curriculum to help children learn about nutrition and to encourage a healthy relationship with food – starting in our infant classrooms through Pre-kindergarten.
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Exploring the arts is a great way to stimulate your child's imagination and creative thinking. In our creative arts programs, like Primrose Early Art Masters®, your child discovers classical and contemporary artists then practices techniques by creating their own masterpieces.
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Our infant classrooms foster Active Minds, Healthy Bodies, and Happy Hearts® through a nurturing environment with plenty of reading. This includes literacy; communication and vocabulary skills to help your infant better express their needs; gross motor skills and sensory development; and emotional well-being. Today our infants loved learning about different animals through our learning blocks and infant books.
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At Primrose, we incorporate STEM-based learning into children’s everyday experiences through our Balanced Learning® approach. For infants to pre-kindergartners, STEM subjects are intentionally integrated in many ways, including through group activities, learning centers, books, discussions, experiments, art projects and educational games. Today we learned about living things and experimented with water to explore its properties. We love experimenting at Primrose.
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As part of our commitment to providing a well-rounded early childhood education with our Balanced Learning® approach, Primrose School of Downtown Bethesda includes Spanish-language learning with daily lessons in our classrooms. Our program introduces vocabulary related to weekly themes, music and simple conversation.
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At Primrose, we love experimenting with colors. Today, we learned that we can create new colors by mixing other colors! Our teachers encourage curiosity at Primrose and encourage our children to explore with fun experiments. Primrose will give your children the confidence to ask questions about the world, find out how things work, and give them an understanding of their environment.