The Leader in Early Education and Care®
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Early Education and care in Washington, D.C.
Our school is more than a daycare. Through purposeful play and nurturing guidance, we help lay the foundation for a lifelong love of learning. Right down the road from Rock Creek Park and Takoma Elementary School, we are conveniently located on Georgia Avenue NW. Come by and see Balanced Learning® in action.
Every Moment Matters
- The components of our Balanced Learning® approach are intentionally aligned to create developmentally appropriate learning experiences.
- Your child will stay engaged all day with the right balance of child-initiated and teacher-guided learning experiences.
- Our students learn the foundational skills to develop Active Minds, Healthy Bodies, and Happy Hearts® that will forge a path to a brighter future.
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Honoring Black History Month
During Black History Month, we recognize and celebrate the voices, stories, and contributions that have shaped our communities and our country. We’re proud to help children learn about diversity, kindness, and belonging every day. 🌍🖤
Feeling the February Love ❤️
Snowy days outside, Valentine's cheer inside! ❄️💌
Our Primrose halls are full of love as we get into the February spirit, just what we need to shake off the winter blues in DC! ☃️ Our doors (and hearts) are always open to our Primrose families!
Happy Birthday Billy! 💜
Happy Birthday to our Primrose pal, Billy the Duck! 🦆
Billy teaches us about keeping promises and kindness, and we're happy to celebrate one of our very best Primrose friends! 💜 Do a dance or sing a song for Billy today! 🎵
Reading with Billy!
Our toddlers love these storybook moments! ✨
As our teacher brings the story to life with Billy the Duck, children build listening skills, expand vocabulary, and strengthen comprehension through these engaging experiences! 📚🦆
F is for future readers! 📚
Our Pre-K friends are building strong literacy foundations as they explore the letter F, from recognizing its shape to tracing it through hands-on art. 🏫
This fun, developmentally appropriate activity supports letter recognition and creativity, all integral to our Primrose Balanced Learning curriculum! 🎒✎
Happy Birthday! 🎉
Celebrating a big milestone for a little learner! 🍰🥳 We love being part of moments that help our children grow and thrive. We're honored to celebrate this moment with one of our students and be part of their journey! 🎂✨
Keeping Cozy in the New Year! 🎇🎈
Happy New Year from all of us at Primrose School at the Parks DC! 🎇
We're starting the year off right - staying cozy, warm, and ready for school! Our amazing teachers and staff are rocking their new Benjamin the Bear 🐻sweaters, keeping warm in this chilly weather while spreading all the good vibes ❄️. We're ready for a year filled with learning, laughter, and plenty of cozy moments. ❤️
Holiday Party! 🎅✨
Our Primrose Holiday Party was a blast! 🎄 🎁 Our students, teachers, and families were able to come together to celebrate and create some magical memories for our final day of school before the new year.
Wishing everyone a season of love, laughter, and learning, from our Primrose family to yours! ✨
Hands On! 🎨🙌
Little hands are hard at work! Our students are exploring creativity through hands-on painting, using their senses to learn, create, and express themselves. 🎨✨ Interactive activities like this help build fine motor skills and make learning fun and impactful every day at Primrose Schools. 💛🖐️
📚💫 The Scholastic Book Fair has landed at Primrose Schools—and our students are loving it! 💫📚
The excitement is contagious as children explore the colorful displays and discover new stories that spark their imagination. From silly favorites to early learning reads, the Book Fair is giving our students even more reasons to fall in love with books.
At Primrose Schools, fostering a joy for reading is an important part of our Balanced Learning® approach, and we’re so happy our enrolled families can share in the excitement by supporting the Book Fair and encouraging reading at home. 📖❤️
Our Pre-K Scientists! 🔬
Our curious Pre-K scientists are hard at work! 🔬✨
This week in our STEM-focused lesson on solids, liquids and gases, the children observed water and ice and recorded their findings through detailed drawings.
Activities like these help young learners explore the properties of objects, build early scientific thinking skills, and discover how the world around them changes and moves. ❄️💧📚
📚 Story Time! 💡💛
At Primrose School at the Parks DC, story time is more than a cozy moment — it’s an essential part of our Balanced Learning® approach for infants. 📚✨
As their teacher reads aloud, our youngest learners build early language skills while exploring bright colors on each page. 🎨👶 These simple, meaningful moments help lay the foundation for communication, curiosity, and a lifelong love of reading. 🌈💛
First Snow Magic! 💛
❄️ The first snow of the season arrived, and our Primrose friends were all smiles! Seeing them play, explore, and twirl through the snowflakes made the playground feel extra magical today. ⛄
🧩 Learning Textures with our Young Toddlers! 🧩
Our Young Toddlers explored textures today through a hands-on sensory activity! Using vertical contact paper, children experimented with placing various items to see what would stick. This playful investigation encourages early problem-solving, fine motor development and sensory awareness—key components of our Balanced Learning® approach. 💛🧩
❄️ Hello, Winter! ❄️
As we welcome the snowy season, our students are celebrating with creative winter art—painting their own sparkling snowflakes! Hands-on activities like this help children explore the wonder of the season while supporting learning through our Balanced Learning® approach. ⛄✨
Learning with Ally! 🐰
Our toddlers loved meeting Ally the Rabbit, the Primrose Friend who teaches responsibility in simple, caring ways. 🐰💛
With guidance from their teacher, the children explored how helping hands and gentle actions make our classroom a happy place. Early character development starts with small moments—made extra fun with Ally! ✨
Fall Art Creations by Young Learners! 🍂✨
As part of our Early Art Masters curriculum, our young learners created festive hand turkeys and Thanksgiving cards to welcome the season! 🍂✨
Each project invited children to explore color, texture, and creativity - bringing artistic concepts to life through our Balanced Learning® approach.
We love watching their fall-inspired imagination take flight! 🦃🎨🍁
PPK Fall Nature Walk Field Trip
As part of our STEAM-based curriculum, our Pre-Kindergartners enjoyed a field trip to Battery Lane Park! 🍂✨
The children explored the beauty of nature while recording in their journals the differences in colors from summer to fall. This hands-on experience is a wonderful way to bring Science to life through our Balanced Learning® approach. 🌳🍁📖
Thumbs Up!
🧍♀️✨ Practicing balance in a straight line is more than just fun — it's a key part of our physical development program! At Primrose School at the Parks DC, we're giving "Thumbs up" 👍 to every step forward.
Balance is an important milestone in early childhood, and it's also an intricate part of our Balanced Learning® approach. #PrimroseProud #BalancedLearning #PhysicalDevelopment #PrimroseParksDC
🎨✨ Creativity in Action! ✨🎨
Our Early Preschoolers at Primrose at The Parks DC are exploring colors, textures, and techniques through our Early Art Masters program — a key part of our Balanced Learning® approach.
Through hands-on art experiences, children express themselves creatively while building fine motor skills and confidence. We love watching their imaginations come to life! 🖌️💡
#PrimroseProud #EarlyArtMasters #BalancedLearning #CreativeExploration #PrimroseAtTheParksDC
💛 Learning Through Wonder Time 💛
At Primrose School at the Parks DC, our children are learning the importance of sharing and recognizing emotions as part of Wonder Time in our Balanced Learning® Curriculum.
These early lessons help build empathy, strengthen friendships, and support self-reflection — all essential skills for lifelong success. 🌟🧠💬
We’re so proud to watch our little learners grow each day!
#PrimroseProud #BalancedLearning #SocialEmotionalLearning #WonderTime #EarlyChildhoodDevelopment
Mathematics in Pre-Kindergarten
🔢✨ Math in Pre-K! ✨🔢
Our Pre-Kindergarten students are building a strong foundation in math through hands-on, playful learning experiences as part of our Balanced Learning® approach.
By engaging with numbers, patterns, and problem-solving activities, children develop confidence, flexibility, persistence, and inventiveness — all while having fun!
Positive early math experiences set the stage for a lifelong love of learning. 💡📚
#PrimroseProud #BalancedLearning #EarlyMathSkills #PreKLearning #PrimroseparkDC
Thumbs Up
🐭💪 Moving with Mia the Mouse! 💪🐭
At Primrose School at the Parks DC, physical development is more than just play — it’s learning in action!
Through our Thumbs Up! program, and with the help of our friend Mia the Mouse, children build strength, coordination, and healthy habits while also learning important life skills like confidence, cooperation, and perseverance.
It’s all part of our Balanced Learning® approach — where active bodies and growing minds go hand in hand! 🏃♀️🌟
#PrimroseProud #ThumbsUp #MiaTheMouse #BalancedLearning #PhysicalDevelopment #PrimroseParkDC
Infant Curriculum
At Primrose, we believe in keeping our infants active, engaged, and excited to learn. From the moment they arrive, we provide a nurturing environment where curiosity thrives. Our littlest learners absolutely love flipping through their colorful books filled with animals, shapes, and vibrant images. These books help them explore the world around them and begin to understand the fascinating sights and sounds they encounter every day. 
