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March 7, 2012 at 2:58 am #602405
blanches momMemberI’m looking to find out whether anyone is willing to share their experience(s) with child care or preschool at EuropaKids? Thank you!
March 8, 2012 at 5:16 am #750261
cmongeMemberMy son is in kindergarten this year and went to Europakids for 2 years. He started in the half day Spanish program and then went into the full day German/Spanish program. We had him in daycare at Bright Horizons and then at Cottage School. Both were fine, but once we started him at Europakids we realized how much more he was capable of. All of the teachers knew him extremely well. The field trips they took the kids on were great. He was extremely well prepared for Kindergarten this year. I have recommended Europakids to many people (3 of them have been accepted). We would have kept him at Europakids for kindergarten if it was an option.
March 8, 2012 at 7:10 pm #750262
volleycat1MemberWe started with Europakids back in 2007 with our first child and now have our second kid there. We love this program and feel lucky to have had the opportunity to send our kids there.
Europakids is a caring, engaged program with specific goals about what the children can learn. My son was very well prepared for kindergarten and my daughter is going to be as well. I wouldn’t be surprised at all if she went into kindergarten already knowing how to read. She has learned so many letters already in english, german and spanish and the school helps foster a love of books.
We recently had a parent-teacher conference about her development, both socially and academically, with a thorough, well thought out grading system. YEAH! My kids loved going to school and seeing their friends. Whereas they have unstructured play time, they are also engaged in fun projects, music class, and german and spanish language immersion. My kids understand everything said to them in these two languages, even though we don’t speak them at home. My daughter loves to sing and over the holidays she sang “O Tannenbaum” over and over again in the car. So cute! I love that she is getting this exposure to foreign languages. It is normal and natural for the kids to learn it now.
The teachers and owners genuinely care about the kids and I trust leaving my children with them. We highly recommend Europakids.
March 9, 2012 at 12:30 am #750263
freshstartMemberMy older son was the first student at Europa Kids, and he stayed there until kindergarten. My second son has been going there part time since he was a baby. I can’t imagine a place I could take my boys where they would be better cared for and loved. For us it’s like family (only sometimes better!). The language immersion, field trips, art projects and free play are carefully planned and wonderfully executed. I can’t say enough good things about it!
March 9, 2012 at 4:05 pm #750264
dahdMemberMy daughter has attended Europa Kids since she was 2 1/2. She is a first grader now and attends the afterschool program. We have loved the program from the beginning. It’s a very enriching environment full of fun, learning and lots of outdoor time. While I felt she was well prepared for kindergarten, Nicole observed her entry into kindergarten and took steps to further improve the Europa Kids curriculum, insuring that Europa Kids would be even better prepared. We feel lucky to be a part of the Europa Kids family!
March 19, 2012 at 10:04 pm #750265
JasperbluParticipantMy daughter attended EuropaKids’ full day preschool for two years. She’s in Kindergarten now and is attending the EK German/Spanish after-school program as well.
She has always loved her teachers there and the activities, songs, field trips, etc. As well, her grasp and comprehension of two languages that are NOT spoken in our home, I’m still often amazed at how quickly she was able to soak up a second and third language, as if they were already her own. This will be invaluable later when she is “forced” to take a 2nd language in middle school certainly, but it’s also really helped with her math and science comprehension.
As a parent, I can’t say enough about how much she’s learned in general. She was so well prepared for Kindergarten (especially compared to her classmates, the majority of whom hadn’t had any preschool at all, let alone already knew their alphabet and numbers, etc.). As another parent said above, if K-5 had been available we would have kept her where she was, with her EK “family”.
Highly recommend!
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