First Path Day Care Center – Child Care & Day Care-Infant, Toddler, Preschool, Pre-K – Watertown, MA.
The First Path Day Care Center in Watertown, Massachusetts, offers top quality, educational day care that includes infant, toddler, preschool, junior kindergarten. Our school is called First Path because here children start their first path to the skills and knowledge they will carry throughout all their lives. Not only do we nurture children and care for them, but we also teach them. We create an environment that stimulates a variety of learning experiences in all areas of cognitive, physical, social, and emotional development. Our goal is to encourage a positive approach to life-long learning in each child.
Our program of child development incorporates the best pedagogical achievements used in American and European day care centers. At First Path, children grow and develop in a warm, friendly, and secure environment. We want to do whatever we can to ensure that children attending our day care center will find themselves exceptionally well prepared for future schooling.
Our preschool and older toddler program is designed to teach basic math, reading, geography, biology, history, drawing, sculpturing, music, dance, foreign languages in interesting and intelligible way, considering every child’s intellectual and physical development.
Our program for infants and younger toddlers is designed to promote the physical, emotional, intellectual, and language development of young children. Our professional teachers are ready to meet infants’ and younger toddlers’ individual needs, from feeding and changing to napping and playing. The whole process of children’s learning and development is organized in a way that children learn by playing stimulating and absorbing games. At the same time, these games develop creativity, discipline, kindness, self-esteem, best moral values, and create an individual in every child. Since every child is unique, we carefully study every child’s individual abilities and tailor our approach to the individual child's social, emotional, and intellectual needs.
First Path Day Care Center +1617-926-4690 25 Whites Avenue, Watertown, MA
Reviews
Irina Blinova
My son started going to First Path when he was four and spent there about a year until he went to K. We were so impressed by the quality of the care that we signed up our infant daughter (5 months old now) as soon as the spot in the infant room ...MoreMy son started going to First Path when he was four and spent there about a year until he went to K. We were so impressed by the quality of the care that we signed up our infant daughter (5 months old now) as soon as the spot in the infant room became available. The teachers are very caring - my son still loves to stop by and everyone greets him, though it has been almost a year since he graduated. For older kids, there are tons of structured activities as well as free play. They also do regular trips to the library nearby, fire station, etc. There is a small playground next door, where kids go twice a day - it was very important for me that my son was getting enough exercise, and boy he got it. He was in preK class there, and they made a lot of effort to prepare kids for the transition to K, which went very smoothly for my son. As for the infant room, the teachers helped a lot with transition for my daughter and I feel that she is getting a lot of attention on a daily basis. I stopped by during different times of the day and always saw that someone was holding her or playing with her (unless she was asleep). Though she had a bit of a hard time in the beginning, now she is very happy when she sees her teachers. I always get reports on what happened during the day, if she was crying or happy, what she liked to do, etc. I love it that even infants are taken for walks once or twice a day, unless the weather is nasty.The building itself is on the smaller side and a little old, but I had a bad experience with another daycare that had top notch space and disappointing teaching strategies, so I guess now the facility looks do not really matter a lot for me - as long as my kids are happy and thriving. And they are.
I had my 2 year old has been in First Path for almost a year and overall I'm very Happy!This is my 2nd child so I am no longer a helicopter mom. I value big hearts and big smiles much more than any other thing. We had loving teachers. They listen ...MoreI had my 2 year old has been in First Path for almost a year and overall I'm very Happy!This is my 2nd child so I am no longer a helicopter mom. I value big hearts and big smiles much more than any other thing. We had loving teachers. They listen to you as a parent and give advice on their daily routine. I had expectations for my son to be a happy kid at day care and first path met my expectations. It has everything a kid his age needs. Enough toys and structure + academic activities. My son is surprising me with letter recognition and he colors like a 3yeAr old now (and he's 2)! Aside from the regular activities, they provide sports , chorals and piano lessons once a week as extras. I made it to the year end concert before we have to relocAte again... The piano teacher is GOOD ! The thing I value the most at First Path daycare is the exposure to an international environment and culture ! Most teachers speak more than one language and they don’t hesitate to use their second language with your child if you ask them to. In my case the teacher uses French with my son (and I am happy to have my son learn my own language). I also know many kids their who are learning Russian and Spanish from the staff. You do have to bring your own food for your child, but aside from that their care is exemplary.
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