Looking for advice on PRE K school
Hello parents!
I am looking for some advice on a pre K school for my son. I am looking for the Berkeley North/Central/South/Albany area. English speaking or Spanish immersion would be my preference, but most importantly is how the caregivers take care of the kids. If you have any suggestions or could share your experience I would really appreciate that. :). There are so many schools, it is really hard to know to which ones to apply. (Or, of you have any schools that you would not recommend at all- thank you)
Thank you!
Cheers
Oct 18, 2019
Parent Replies
We sent our son to Escuela Bilingüe Internacional (EBI). He absolutely loved it there. It is a Spanish immersion play-based, pre-school that also continues on K-8th grade as the only Spanish immersion international baccalaureate program elementary/middle school in the Bay Area. The curriculum encourages inquiry/curiosity through play.
The first day there he cried at drop off but was welcomed to class with a warm hug from the teacher. By the end of the first week, he was telling us, “School is getting ‘funner and funner’. By the end of the second week, he was asking us, “Why can’t I spend more time at school everyday?” (We had no need to sign him up for the aftercare program).
The teachers immediately form warm attachments with the kids making the kids feel secure at school emotionally. The connection to the international baccalaureate (IB) program as a world school brings unique opportunities/resources that other schools don’t have (for example, my son’s class had the opportunity to have group Skype conversations with a classroom of children from other Latin American countries to explore each other’s cultures around whichever topic they were learning in their curriculum). Most importantly, my son’s natural curiosity was encouraged in his learning process.
Check out their website http://www.ebinternacional.org