This is such a friendly and welcoming preschool. Amber and Althea have been leading children's…read moreprograms for the past two decades. Children love Island Time. It is an excellent program for kindergarten preparedness.

From the owner: We provide a safe, nurturing space for children to grow socially, academically, emotionally and…read morephysically. We have a theme-based curriculum that integrates engaging, weekly topics that keeps each week new and exciting while working towards kindergarten readiness. Our program includes: Large Muscle Activities-  patio and large indoor room activities for children to use and develop large muscle coordination. Art- exploration of different media and projects designed to promote fine motor and visual perception skills (cutting, gluing, stitching, matching, sequencing, etc.) Listening Skills-  stories, music, sound, matching games, following directions Verbal Development- interaction in play, purposeful activities, show and tell Basic Concepts-  shapes, colors, rhyming, opposites,  left and right, patterning, sequencing, classification, seriation, beginning sounds, number identification and correspondence, pre-reading, pre-writing, science and math Social skills- sharing, verbalizing feelings, responsibility for self, and courtesy to others

My 3.5 year old has been attending Cove school for over a year now, onto his second year in the…read moreprogram. He has totally thrived in the environment, with past and current teachers, and we've seen such a difference in his ability to express himself, talk through his feelings, and be curious. We even had to go to the ER a month or so back, and while he was scared we asked him to do his big breaths (learned at Cove), he did, and it helped him get through. We were amazed! The parent community at the school is great too. We've met lots of other engaged, wonderful parents that are just great to see at pick up/drop off or even do play dates with. We're so happy we enrolled our toddler here and have plans to enroll our youngest when he gets old enough.

Both of our boys have attended here over the last four years and have had a great experience. They…read morehave helped our kids to navigate their emotions through their focus on social emotional learning and mindfulness.

Our daughter attends the West Seattle location and we cannot imagine a better environment for her…read more She absolutely loves her "maestras" and looks forward to going to school every day. Her Spanish comprehension in just one year has been beyond my expectations. We will definitely be sending our second daughter to Cometa as well.

My 2.5 year old daughter has been attending Cometa Playschool at the Wallingford location on Stone…read moreWay for the past 6 months. She absolutely loves her school and her teachers, Maestra Manuela and Maestra Nicolet. She attends M-Th and always asks Friday through Sunday when it will be school time again. We love the small class size and individual attention each child receives. My husband is bilingual (English and Spanish) so we are particularly interested in our daughter becoming exposed to and ultimately proficient in the Spanish language. I feel this is a first rate program and we have been very pleased so far with our experience at Cometa.

Our son has been there for almost a year and we are so impressed!! The teachers and director really…read moreCARE. They have different service projects going on throughout the year and put an emphasis on empathy, which I love. We also have an older child and between our two kids, we've experienced a handful of preschools in Ballard and West Seattle. This is the best by far.

Left feeling traumatized and betrayed. Awful staff and communication. Left with no care after…read morecontracts signed. Staff has completely ignored all emails. Still haven't heard back from them to this day. ____________ We were officially offered a spot at A Child Becomes preschool. I emailed our SIGNED contract accepting the 2 available spots that were offered to us (morning and afternoon) so I scheduled an appointment to do a tour at the preschool the following week. During our scheduled appointment, the Director kept interrupting our appointment by saying hi to everyone and hugging and chatting with all the parents. I am a working mother and had to take time out of my work schedule to make this appointment so I found this extremely rude that she wasn't prioritizing our meeting. She even took a crying child off a parents hands in the middle of our appointment to help her since she was crying. I mentioned to the the Director that I didn't have much time and that I needed to go back to work and she said that the children always come first. The very next day, we received an email about giving our afternoon spot to someone else. Email stated it was given to someone else two days ago. This is just TEN days after I emailed my SIGNED tuition contract stating our ACCEPTANCE into the preschool for the morning AND afternoon spot. They gave our accepted spot to someone else. I replied in a panic asking for an explanation. I didn't quite understand why they would give our spot to someone else when I've already signed the contract. Sent an email 2 days later with no response. Sent an email one week later with no response. The director has now been completely unresponsive. Her name is Michelle Neal and is no longer answering any of my emails or an explanation as to why they broke the contract. We thought we had guaranteed childcare starting on May 6th so I began to decline other childcare offers, giving up our spots on those wait lists. I've been scrambling trying to find schools to take us on such late notice. We were finally able to get into one school but it was almost triple the cost of A Child Becomes. We really have no other choice so we had to accept this offer. In the end, we are very happy with our now current daycare as their curriculum is far above average compared to all the other daycares our son has been to. Overall, this has been a very traumatic experience. I was adamant about getting into this school because I've heard so many amazing things about it and have been recommended by several parents from all sorts of mommy groups, blogs and Facebook groups but now I do not understand why. This has been the most rude and unprofessional school I have ever met with. I do not recommend this school whatsoever. In addition, the school is under a church and it felt really dark with poor air circulation, which is not desirable during a time where there is a pandemic happening. Everything looked cluttered, unorganized and dirty at this school. I really wanted to love this school but A Child Becomes has left me traumatized and betrayed.

Beautiful location for a great school. Our daughter enjoyed daycare here for several years. The…read morelocation can't be beat - they would go on walks to the park and to Alki beach. She loved all the teachers and staff who provided great care to her.

Our experience with Seattle Early Learning Center is amazing! My daughter has been attending it for…read morealmost a year and she loves it! When my daughter started daycare I was afraid that she would hate it, because she spoke only Russian. But all teachers were very friendly, caring and helpful. Slowly she began to build up her English vocabulary. Now she can easily speak English and understands even more. Location of SELC is great! They use Whale tail park and Alki beach as a playground (they have their own too). They play outside twice a day which is so good for kids! Regina (the owner) is a wonderful person! She is very thoughtful and sensitive to our needs providing the best care! I highly recommend SELC!

The management at this Bright Horizons is really incompetent…read more I used the Bright Horizons Backup Care program to make a reservation for my daughter at this location. The West Seattle location had availability and confirmed my reservation. On the day of the reservation, when I was getting ready for dropping off my daughter, I got a call from the West Seattle location and they told me that they have no space for my daughter even though they had given me a confirmation earlier. This is not an isolated incident. The same thing happened to me 2 days later. And I had to run around at the last minute to find a daycare option for my daughter. The people working at Bright Horizons West Seattle don't even have the basic decency to give you a heads up 1 or 2 days earlier to let you know that they don't have space for you! I would recommend everyone to stay away from this location due to terribly incompetent management here.

Enrolled my daughter and my son and have been very happy with the program overall! The teachers,…read morethe space--everything has been awesome. The only drawback is that I wish it was a smaller campus during COVID and there was even more communication on what other parents are doing during the pandemic but I understand the trade offs for a high quality program. She's thriving abd has made new friends that she'll hopefully have as she grows up.

I'd never heard of co-op schools before moving to Seattle and having joined the Admiral Co-op…read moreCommunity, I can safely say, mind = blown. They're a fabulous and truly affordable preschool offering play-based curriculum, remarkable teachers, a supportive, dynamic, and diverse community, and excellent parent education. This place has become a life-saver and an eye-opener as to what Pre-K education can offer. My daughter absolutely loves school and I've learned so much and enjoyed being a part of this community from the very beginning. I highly recommend Admiral, (or any of the South Seattle College sponsored preschool sites) to all of my friends with toddlers and Pre-K kids! P.S. I'm often times envious of all the cool activities they set up for the kids each week. I want to paint with vegetables, dive into the latest sensory table, and play in the make-believe pet-store too!!!!!

Experiential learning, play based...don't we all learn by doing? And probably best of all, parent…read moreeducation and community. Your child learns without knowing it. You learn and are able to carry that learning into the rest of your life and family. Everyone benefits. You are supported by a parent educator who is there to help with parenting trials (the non stop ever changing trials of parenting). The teachers are very seasoned and deeply knowledgeable and thoughtful about what and how they are teaching and why. A safe place for your child to learn how to handle big emotions. Lots of practice building social emotional skills. It is not drop off, but you aren't there every day. You get to be in the classroom 1 day a week and have a rotating on-call day a few times per year. What you get from being there is a bigger understanding of who your child is and how they learn. By working together with other parents, and sometimes relying on each for help, you build community (and friendships). It's fun and the benefits, short and long term, and immeasurable.