Bloom Preschool is top notch! I am the type of parent to keep my kid home rather than send her to…read morea preschool that I'm not sure is great. With Bloom, I feel GREAT about the program and teachers, and have full peace of mind when I take my daughter and drop her off. Stacy (the owner) is very experienced and level-headed. She's great with kids and is always calm and collected while simultaneously showing enthusiasm for the kids. Stacy has developed curriculum that is fun, multifaceted and holds my daughters attention. I like a balance between play and learning and I feel Bloom gets this right. Bonus: my daughter brings home adorable crafts matching the weekly theme. My daughter attended during the 2020-21 school year. The owner Stacy told me at the tour that she was going to try and find a transparent shield for her face so she could pull down her mask and smile at the kids. She couldn't imagine not being able to show the kids facial expression. **Okay, I don't know about you, but this is exactly the kind of teacher I want for my child. One that sincerely cares about the emotional and social development of her students. ** She would give the parents periodic updates regarding Covid safety rules but she didn't ever appeared frazzled by the changing protocol of Covid mandates. There was one Covid exposure risk during the year and Stacy did a A+ job of informing us and keeping us safe with an appropriate closure and re-opening. Honestly, Bloom was a major "silver lining" for an otherwise CHALLENGING year. I'm so grateful to Stacy, Nicole, and Amber for a fantastic first year of preschool. I am now counting the days till summer vacation is over and school starts back up!

Words are not enough for expressing how I feel about Bloom. It has been a wonderful 2 years for my…read moreson and I am truly sad that he graduated this year. The teachers are really patient and kind here and I never ever worried about him being here. They are really reasonably priced as well. I am so glad that I found Bloom and that my son's first school experience was so great. I highly recommend Bloom!

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.

We love Cometa. My daughters love Cometa. The maestras are absolutely top notch. My oldest…read moreattended twice a week for about 1.5 years, and my youngest currently attends twice a week for what will end up being 2.5 years by the time she ages out. Our oldest is, um, challenging. She was asked to leave three different preschools for being just generally defiant and difficult. She loved Cometa, and the patience and individual attention that the teachers were able to give her helped her immensely on the path toward getting past her limitations, respecting others, making positive choices, and getting ready for kindergarten. My wife has a PhD in linguistics, with a focus on second language education, so she knows what she's talking about when it comes to second language acquisition. If she yelped, she'd go on at length about how well Cometa implements the language immersion pedagogical methods. The theory is great, but the devil is in the details, and Maestra Manuela's school is really top-notch in this regard. Manuela has the training, but also the instincts, to be a top-notch instructor, and a care giver, a patient listener, and a creator of a fun, dynamic, warm environment. We have had several child care opportunities come up during the two years we've had a child at Cometa, and we've turned them all down in favor of keeping our girls here. I really cannot speak highly enough of this place.

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.

This is my child's second year in Alki Coop and we love it so much. We love the play-based…read moreeducation model, the parent education resources, the teachers in the classroom and the community of parents and kiddos that we are building for our family. I'm excited to enroll my younger kiddo for next year.

Unbelievably given the location of the preschool there was a child named Aryan (which is never an…read moreacceptable name given the political association) in my child's class. The lead from the sponsoring college introduced him to the class one day as quote " our friend Aryan". Not surprisingly, we had issues such as a parent putting her hands on and interacting with my child in a way I felt was inappropriate. We dropped out of the class and canceled our enrollment for next year. Class is/was having issues keeping students as other families have left as well.

Our experience at SELC (Alki) has been great so far. The staff is wonderful. They are skilled…read moreprofessionals that took excellent care of our daughter until she turned 4. They were receptive to feedback and acted immediately to improve. Both the teachers and the director/s showed constant and transparent communication with us. I'd highly recommend to trust them with your little ones.

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.

I'm not sure if I am too quick to jump on and review since I technically am not enrolled yet at…read moreBright Horizons but I thought I would share my experience. My husband and I are expecting our first child in late May and we had recently relocated to W Seattle. We were researching daycare and naturally, Bright Horizons surfaced as an option. I looked at Yelp naturally but there was only one review that was almost a year old. This made me nervous as I didn't feel that was a strong outing. So I contacted BH myself to setup an appointment to check out the daycare as well as to find out pricing (as they won't tell you over the phone) and it varies based on location. I discovered that this location is fairly new (a little over a year and a half old) and it's in a convenient location for us. There is ample parking out front for dropoff/pickup which is limited to 30 mins or so in the mornings/evenings to help keep folks moving. I find this to be extremely helpful when you think of trying to battle parking and weather while trying to juggle babies and diaper bags. The building itself is secure and you either have a code as a parent or you are buzzed in by reception. I learned the hard way that if you come before 8am though that no one is at reception and so you either hang outside or sneak in behind someone dropping off their kid (which is not what I would recommend). The daycare is broken into several 'rooms' based on the child's age and they have different schedules and activities based on that. The "Teachers" in each room get more kids as the kids get older to where the max is one 'teacher' to ten children. They do feed your child a few times a day and unless you state so, they will give them what they give everyone. There is a menu which you can see what is being served and if you have any reservations, etc. I do like that the smaller kids are held and have cribs to sleep in vs. having swings where they would not be able to be 'comforted'. They have playgrounds outside for the older kids and they do seem to encourage outdoor time each day even with bad weather so rain gear was evident in the kids bins. We decided to go with BH and be on their 'waiting' list for the summer/fall after the visit. The fees aren't cheap and you don't really get a 'break' once the children get older but I will say that I do believe you get what you pay for. I did like that there is no real 'dropoff' time or pickup for penalty. There is a open window so if you are running late you don't have to worry about being charged $1 a minute or whatever fees it is that some daycares charge. They also are only closed a few times a year that most places would be closed (Memorial, 4th July, Xmas, etc). I find this to be extremely helpful as I have a coworker who goes to a nearby daycare and they are closed the last two weeks of December. That's not very convenient nor would you be able to get off work that long in a row. So technically I haven't used their service fully yet but I wanted to share the experience and insight that we saw while touring the campus. I think it's a great daycare if you can afford it financially as it's not cheap but I think you'll be happier picking up your child from a clean and secure daycare where the children seem happy. And most of all, it was clean and the children always seemed to be learning and doing activities.

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.

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.

The SELC team provided an Elementary Support program for K-2nd throughout the 2020-2021 school…read moreyear, as well as a summer camp program for summer 2021. It was a life saver! Our daughter was able to navigate remote learning during kindergarten while still getting a chance to hang out with other kids, all within the confines of the safe and clean facility at SELC-Admiral 2. Based on our experience, we recommend the SELC team for childcare needs.

From the owner: DCYF / WA state Licensed Preschool; serving Infants; Toddlers, Preschoolers, Pre-K…read more Our newly constructed building has an indoor KidsGym as well as a large outdoor rooftop play area.