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Early Education and Care in Bethesda, MD
Our school is more than a daycare. Through purposeful play and nurturing guidance, we help lay the foundation for a lifelong love of learning. Right down the road from National Institutes of Health and Bethesda Elementary School, we are conveniently located on Glenbrook Road. Come by and see Balanced Learning® in action.
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Happy Halloween from Primrose School of Downtown Bethesda! We had an absolute blast at our Halloween Parade and Trunk or Treating! 🎉
A huge thank you to all our families and students who participated—your creativity truly blew us away! We loved seeing all the fantastic costumes!
Wishing everyone a fun and safe Halloween filled with treats and laughter!
Fall Fun
At Primrose, we are absolutely loving fall! Our little learners are diving into the wonders of the season, exploring how the changing weather impacts our world. This month, we’re engaging in fun activities like:
🍁 Nature Walks: Collecting colorful leaves and observing how trees change.
Fall Art Projects: Creating masterpieces with leaves, pumpkins, and autumn colors.
🌰 Enhancements: Exploring the textures of pinecones, acorns and leaves
Fall Activities
At Primrose, our little ones had an amazing time getting into the fall spirit today! We decorated their own pumpkin, adding their own unique touch with bright colors and fun designs. We talked about everyone’s favorite fall activities such as apple picking and the changing colors of the trees. 
Apple of Our Eye: Ms. Veena
Apple of Our Eye: Ms. Veena. Ms. Veena's kindness and compassion shines through in everything she does, creating a supportive and nurturing learning environment for her infants. Her commitment to excellence and her willingness to go above and beyond to ensure our success does not go unnoticed. From innovative teaching methods to engaging activities, she never fails to keep her students captivated and eager to learn. Thank you for being such an amazing teacher and for making a difference in the lives of your students every day. 
Wonder Time
At Primrose, we’re so excited for fall! During our Wonder Time, we got creative by making pumpkins out of paper plates and sharing our favorite fall activities. From apple picking to cozying up with hot cocoa, there’s so much to love about this season! What’s your favorite fall activity? 
At Primrose, our students had a wonderful time learning about food today! Our teachers encourage healthy habits in children early on since it is essential to their future health and success. That’s why we developed our Balanced Menus program, which exposes our students to a variety of healthy foods and ensures they get the proper balance of fruit, vegetables and whole grains while in school. They rolled play-dough to create their own dishes, discovering shapes and sizes along the way. It was a great opportunity to develop their fine motor skills as they used their hands to craft various types of food.
Today at Primrose, we practiced tracing our lowercase and uppercase letter B! The kids had a great time in their small literacy groups using their own whiteboards to try writing the letters on their own.
We had a fantastic time in class painting and learning about the important community helpers who keep us safe every day! From firefighters and police officers to doctors and paramedics, we explored the incredible work they do to support and protect our community. We’re so proud of their creativity and teamwork!
At Primrose, our toddler program provides a curriculum to help set a foundation to ensure that our infants reach their milestones and achieve the support they need to reach their full potential. Toddlers draw on social-emotional, language, motor, and perceptual experiences and abilities for cognitive development. They are attuned to relationships between features of objects, actions, and the physical environment. Our classrooms use objects such as books and learning blocks to learn about different kind of animals and make real world connections. Our children love to read and learn about new information.
The Primrose Balanced Learning® curriculum supports children’s innate desire to learn through investigation and experimentation. In the classroom, intentional experiences introduce little ones to new concepts and ideas in engaging ways. And the exploration doesn’t stop there.
Primrose teachers are trained to observe each child’s interests and learning style, which they then use to extend learning. For example, if a child expresses curiosity about plants during a lesson, the teacher will pose questions to encourage him to explore the subject further and reach his own conclusions, while sharing facts and information to enrich his understanding.
Primrose Schools' Harmony & Heart program is a proprietary approach to music and literacy that helps children develop into better listeners, more dynamic thinkers, and kinder people. The program combines music and children's books to help children learn about rhythm, melody, and other concepts. It also helps children develop confidence, independence, and strong character.
Encouraging healthy habits in children at Primrose early on is essential to their future health and success. That’s why we developed our Balanced Menus program, which exposes our students to a variety of healthy foods and ensures they get the proper balance of fruit, vegetables and whole grains while in school.
We encourage children try new foods on the menu on a regular basis, as research shows children are more likely to accept a new food if it’s offered 10-15 times, though we always respect a child’s preferences and will never make him eat anything he doesn’t want to. We’ve also built several lessons and experiences into our curriculum to help children learn about nutrition and to encourage a healthy relationship with food – starting in our infant classrooms through Pre-kindergarten.
Infant Program
At Primrose, we believe that every moment in an infant's early life is an opportunity for growth and discovery. From the very beginning, our focus is on laying a strong foundation that will support your child's development as they grow. Infants are incredibly curious and eager to learn about the world around them. Our balanced learning curriculum incorporates experience blocks and literacy activities that are essential for building this foundation. These experiences are not just play—they are intentional and integral to fostering cognitive, social, and emotional growth.
Exploring the arts is a great way to stimulate your child's imagination and creative thinking. In our creative arts programs, like Primrose Early Art Masters®, your child discovers classical and contemporary artists then practices techniques by creating their own masterpieces.
Our infant classrooms foster Active Minds, Healthy Bodies, and Happy Hearts® through a nurturing environment with plenty of reading. This includes literacy; communication and vocabulary skills to help your infant better express their needs; gross motor skills and sensory development; and emotional well-being. Today our infants loved learning about different animals through our learning blocks and infant books.
At Primrose, we incorporate STEM-based learning into children’s everyday experiences through our Balanced Learning® approach. For infants to pre-kindergartners, STEM subjects are intentionally integrated in many ways, including through group activities, learning centers, books, discussions, experiments, art projects and educational games. Today we learned about living things and experimented with water to explore its properties. We love experimenting at Primrose.
As part of our commitment to providing a well-rounded early childhood education with our Balanced Learning® approach, Primrose School of Downtown Bethesda includes Spanish-language learning with daily lessons in our classrooms. Our program introduces vocabulary related to weekly themes, music and simple conversation.
At Primrose, we love experimenting with colors. Today, we learned that we can create new colors by mixing other colors! Our teachers encourage curiosity at Primrose and encourage our children to explore with fun experiments. Primrose will give your children the confidence to ask questions about the world, find out how things work, and give them an understanding of their environment.
