The Leader in Early Education and Care®
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M-F 7:00 am-6:00 pmEarly Education and care in Washington, D.C.
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 Rock Creek Park and Takoma Elementary School, we are conveniently located on Georgia Avenue NW. Come by and see Balanced Learning® in action.
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Happy birthday to our Friend Benjamin the bear! 🎉 Benjamin helps students discover the joy of giving without expectation through events like our Caring and Giving food drive. We're practicing generosity by making Benjamin headbands for others and sharing the love. #primroseproud #benjaminthebear
Happy World Kindness Day! 🌟
Happy World Kindness Day! 🌟
Today at Primrose, we celebrated by showing appreciation to our amazing staff with some delicious baked goods as a thank-you for all the kindness they show our little ones every day. They are such incredible role models, demonstrating kindness in everything they do.
In the classrooms, we talked about the importance of kindness and shared examples of small acts that can make a big difference, helping others feel good and spreading positivity.
Thankfulness at Primrose
As we reflect on all the wonderful things we're grateful for, we can't help but feel thankful for the incredible families, friends, and community that make Primrose School such a special place.
We’re grateful for the opportunity to nurture and grow alongside your little ones each day. The laughter, the learning, and the connections we see every day fill our hearts with joy. 💖
To our amazing families – thank you for entrusting us with your children and for being such a supportive part of our school family. Your partnership means the world to us.
Election Day 2024
At Primrose School of DC, the winner of this election is Mia! Students learned the importance of citizenship as they cast their vote for Mia the mouse or Percy the rooster as Class Representative. Learning about citizenship is an important part of our Balanced Learning® curriculum, and we’re so proud of our students for using their vote to make their voice heard. Check out all the fun we had on Election Day 2024! 
Primrose Pumpkin Patch!
What a fantastic day at our What a fantastic day at our Primrose Pumpkin Patch! Today, we planted our pumpkin seeds, and before we knew it, our beautiful pumpkins appeared! 🍂
We had a blast picking pumpkins with our friends and making wonderful memories together. Thank you to everyone who joined in on the fun! We can’t wait to see what we create with our amazing harvest
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! Our class 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. 
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 Pre-Kindergartners are having a blast practicing their letters and tracing! This early learning is crucial as we prepare for the next big step: Kindergarten!
When children recognize letters and sounds, they build critical skills that help with reading fluency, spelling, and comprehension.
We’re so proud of our little learners and the progress they’re making.
At Primrose, we love working together as a class to create meaningful art projects! Today, we focused on the powerful themes of inclusivity and belonging. Through creativity, we explored what it means to make everyone feel valued and welcome.
Apple of Our Eye: Jeanibe Basilian
Apple of Our Eye: Jeanibe Basilian. Jeanibe brings so much more than just knowledge into the Primrose School of DC; she brings warmth, compassion, and an unwavering commitment to the success and well-being of her students.
Her ability to go above and beyond, day in and day out, is truly inspiring. Jeanibe embodies the very best qualities of an educator: kindness, patience, passion, and dedication. Jeanibe's creativity knows no bounds, and her innovative approaches to education have inspired us to think critically, express ourselves confidently, and embrace our unique talents and strengths.
At Primrose, our students had a wonderful time learning about food today! 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Election Day
At Primrose, Election Day is our opportunity to show our students the value of democracy and citizenship while educating them on the importance of voting. Our students will get to see first-hand how voicing their opinions at the ballot box translates into real-life results by choosing a presidential Primrose Friend mascot.
*Not in any way associated with the current election*
