Toddler Daycare in West Newton, MA

Blooming Stars Education Center is a Mandarin and English bilingual educational childcare center guided by the educational philosophy of Dr. Maria Montessori. Our center’s mission is to offer a safe, warm, and supportive learning environment for children from the age of three months to kindergarten entry.To enable each infant, toddler, and preschooler to realize their richest potential for learning, teachers guide children's learning to achieve our mission through the following. Through a stimulating and nurturing environment with a balance of social, emotional, and intellectual support teachers will encourage the self-motivation and self-discipline that will lead to a life-long pursuit of knowledge. With parents, we will work together to create a warm, loving, and challenging environment for each child.Through observation, there will be a focus on each child's development of cognitive skills, self-esteem, independence, and personal responsibility.Children learn and develop skills through play. Play is a child's work. Our teachers carefully observe children's play and assist them in making discoveries and acquiring skills.Children gradually develop self-discipline through freedom of movement and freedom of choice. The Montessori materials give them a sense of satisfaction, which encourages them to concentrate and complete activities.

Established in 2000, Nashoba Montessori School is a private preschool and kindergarten where your child can reach their fullest potential in a learning environment which promotes respect, independence, and personal achievement.Believing that a child’s early development is a critical factor in later success, we offer an environment that promotes a lifelong love for learning. Children are given the basics of all-future studies; Science/Nature, Math, Language, Art, Music, Cultural Studies and Cooking. Children are free to work at their own pace with materials they have chosen. The teacher relies on their own observations of the children to determine which new activities and materials may be introduced to challenge and ensure success for the child.To provide each child with a safe, carefully planned and stimulating environment based on the philosophy of Dr. Maria Montessori.To help each child in the development of the fundamental habits, skills and ideas which are essential to a lifetime of learning and thinking.To guide every child in reaching his or her intellectual, social and emotional potential within a nurturing, respectful and enriched learning community.It is our goal to encourage and foster a curiosity, initiative, persistence and concentration, while assisting parents in the modeling of the Montessori Philosophy at home.