Best Bilingual Nurseries In San Francisco Near Me

4worldlovers: Is a parent cooperative nursery school. Member families and staff team together to provide young children with an affordable, safe, caring environment in which they learn through play and connection. Members gain support for their parenting by working side by side with early childhood educators while having the opportunity to build a strong community for their family.

Children welcome and encouraged! This is a fun and informal opportunity for kids to play and adults to meet current families and learn more about the school. No need to RSVP. We will post additional open house dates as they are scheduled; please check back or call the school to inquire.

4worldlovers: Marc and Erica have lead a very successful program at Bernal Infant and Child Care since early 2017. They worked hand in hand to utilize each others strengths. Marc is a great chef and often makes good food a lesson plan. He has great entrepreneurship skills, sense of humor and a natural leader for kids. Erica enjoys sharing her love of art and animals and her passion for exploration with all of the children in her program.

Both met in college while studying art at the academy of art university. Since then they have both cared for people of all ages with varied degrees of disabilities in their homes. Additionally, they volunteered their time to teach kids with disabilities photography. Marc also worked at YMCA summer programs and helped kids and families in need when he worked at family support services doing respite care.

They have lived in Bernal since 2001, and feel very honored to serve their community by caring for and helping their families the best way they know how, with love and dedication.

The couple have a child, Mitchell that inspired them to start the business.

Bernal Infant and Child Care is licensed with the State of California Community Care Licensing.

"Five stars hands-down and I'd even give BIIC a Michelin star if I could! I feel like I'm dropping my kid off at a beautiful resort every morning, where I know he will get top-notch attention that is geared toward learning, fun, and healthy/fresh eating! (for example, bananas, avocado, egg, sweet potato, etc. all fresh prepared each morning). The playroom, the nursery, and the outdoor playground are all beautiful and carefully maintained. Our son started around 5 months and is a healthy 9 months now. He has been able to thrive at BIIC. He has been encouraged to crawl, walk, play, eat, and even draw! He is learning loads from the older kids and really happy when we drop him off and pick him up. Erica is extremely caring and attentive. It is also very cool to get updates throughout the day on the Brightwheel childcare app. When I'm at work and wondering what my baby is up to, I can follow along with his day and see how much/what he's eaten, see photos, etc. The ONLY reason I don't have him there 5 days a week is that I work part-time in order to spend as much time as possible with him in his first year of life. Otherwise, I wouldn't even hesitate to have him cared-for full time at BICC. The location is very convenient for public transportation at Cortland/Mission. BICC is part of the Wonderschool network so it gets support and training from Wonderschool, and monthly payment is very easy and automated." A.G

At Bernal Infant and Child Care we embrace young and strong minds by celebrating diversity and encouraging creative play. Social skills come naturally with learning side by side with friends. We play, paint, sing and share. Children form an understanding of themselves and their place in the world through their interactions with others. Good food helps fuel our body and mind.

Our goal for our program is to provide a safe and nurturing home away from home for your child.

_"I always dreamt of a house full children, and finally after years of trying, we have a son!Even more then ever, I still want to fill my home with that pitter patter of laughing children. I'm living my dream and will cherish your precious child and will treat them like a member of our beloved family." _- Erica Ramos, Owner and Director of Bernal Infant and Child Care

We offer 5, 3 and 2 days per week enrollment options, full days 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM.

We provide very healthy meals and snacks every day. Our meals are made with love and each meal is a great opportunity to learn more about food, manners and socialization.

BICC promotes no shame potty training. All children will have to sit down on toilet for safety and sanitary reasons.

4worldlovers: Fun With Mandarin Preschool is a Progressive Reggio Emilia Influenced Chinese (Mandarin) Immersion preschool and care program for children 18 months and through entry into kindergarten in San Francisco. We aim to offer a large variety of deeply-enriching and complete indoor and outdoor experiences to support the comprehensive and linguistic development of children. We seek to work with parents through a strong, supportive community approach to supporting whole-child development. We are located near City College and are conveniently accessible from Highway 280, 101, and 19th Avenue. Our recently-created Capitol Avenue facility consists of over 3,000 square feet of indoor and over 3,200 square feet of outdoor space carefully designed by experts in early childhood education. We are “Reggio Emilia Influenced” in our child-centered and community-supported orientation, while at the same time, we seek to integrate the best elements of other philosophies that emphasize project-based and play-based learning together with our knowledge of up-to-date Early Childhood Education concepts to create deeply-enriching learning environments and curriculum.

Our hours are 8:15 am to 5:45 pm, Monday through Friday. Children are provided with healthy meals throughout the day that include an am snack, lunch, and pm snack. We offer two-day, three-day, and five-day schedules and rolling enrollment throughout the year, though the majority of students begin in the summer and early fall after other students graduate.

Our exceptional level of expertise and experience, child-centered focus, and ideal size allow us to emphasize comprehensive development simultaneously with Mandarin immersion.

Our school uses a colorful, multi-dimensional theme-based approach with an emphasis on fostering the children’s confidence and independence through a multitude of minds-on and hands-on activities. The wide variety of self-led and collaborative activities foster the growth of the children’s individual and interpersonal skills. We have a strong appreciation for the natural curiosity of children and see fun and fascination as guides and engines for supporting and guiding learning in natural and fun ways that engage the children as they grow into young creative learners with greater and greater confidence in their own abilities.

The goal and concept that inspired our school’s name “Fun With Mandarin” was the learning of language in a natural, fun way that greatly enriches the children’s overall development. In our program, children learn Mandarin and other subjects in natural fun ways that support their overall development and through an explorative approach that we feel is a critical part of a happy explorative childhood. We feel this approach leads gradually to well-rounded capable adults that can one day serve as broad-minded leaders in our community and complex global citizens. Year after year, we have seen that no background in Chinese languages (or any second language) is needed to succeed in our program, and we value the diversity of our strong community and how we can all grow from learning about other cultures and experiences. Of course, we can all benefit and grow as people and families from learning about other cultures and languages and we consider the appreciation and exploration of multiple cultures to be a cornerstone of our program that adds endless color and depth.

We take children’s comprehensive preparedness seriously and cater learning differently to each age group in our program to best support their individual needs. Through year after year of positive feedback and through our continued connectiveness with the graduate community, we have seen how the comprehensive foundation that we help achieve at Fun With Mandarin helps children to succeed in the long run as “whole learners”. Our graduates are very well-prepared for continued Mandarin immersion education and elementary school, in general, through that strong comprehensive foundation.

4worldlovers: Our beautiful locations are situated inside and next to Park Presidio to provide nature-based, child-centered early, childhood education.

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Noe Valley Nursery School is a child-centered, play-based, cooperative nursery school. Our goal is to provide a physically and emotionally safe environment that enables children to build a positive self-image, cultivate positive social relationships through play, and develop a lifelong love of learning.

4worldlovers: The Little Tree Preschool is the brainchild of Gigi Cochrum. She has over 30 years of experience working with children and wanted to establish a center that truly reflects the ideal program for children, nurturing their growth and development and opening their worlds to art and creativity. She wanted to create a program sensitive to the unique and diverse population in San Francisco.