Smart Start Day School

Lyle Hews _{on Google}

Mar 18th, 2019

Smart Start Day School was an answer to our prayers. When My wife decided to go back to work we started out just looking for just a "day care" for our 2 year old at the time and luckily found Smart Start Day School (SSDS), and it is much more than a day care. It is a wonderful preschool that our now 3 year old loves so much she is excited to go in the mornings!
Miss Sandra, who is the owner, runs the school with Miss Shonny and they are both gifted, smart and nurturing educators who our daughter loves.
The teachers are great also! Our daughter absolutely adores her teacher, Miss Lindsey. And Miss Lindsey's thoughtful, creative and fun ways of implementing the curriculum have been especially impressive and set our minds at ease as parents knowing our child is always learning. I can be very hard to please at times when it comes to my daughters and their education and truthfully can't say one bad thing about the education my 3 year has been receiving for over a year now at SSDS!
Besides being a clean, safe, well organized school with a great curriculum and all of the traditional aspects of early education, SSDS also has creative, "outside the box" teaching methods which My wife and I love. They garden, do yoga, bring in special guests such as police men to learn about different parts of society, and spend a lot of time outside, among other things.
Maybe, what I like about the school the most is the loving, positive atmosphere our little girl gets to be in every day she is not at home with her family and that we truly don't have to ever worry about her during the day. She is in wonderful hands and is constantly learning and developing.
SSDS is a wonderful school and exceeded our expectations in many ways!
Keep up the amazing work Miss Sandra and staff!

Kamelia Vineva _{on Google}

Nov 17th, 2018

This place deserves at least 10 stars. With two little children I have some experience with daycares and by far this is the best. I haven't met yet other so knowledgeable owner and director and this makes a big difference.
Pros:
1. The lesson plan is great and full with activities that are actually executed. I guess when the owner holds a Masters in Education degree and makes the curriculum herself is much better than downloading a free plan from the internet and just hang it on the wall like many other places do.
2. Teachers are polite, willing to communicate with parents, supportive (regarding potty training for example), very knowledgeable about how to develop fine motor skills and how to organize the little bunch of toddlers so they can finish their activities and actually learn something. (Ok I believe I am not the only parent who can't make ONE toddler put his shoes on, what about something more complicated). My son's teacher call the kids of her class "friends". For me they are little screaming monsters but for her they are friends. Can't thing of better way to teach respectfulness.
3. They regularly bring some entertainment for the kids like clown, parrot lady, bouncy house etc.
4. The kids helped plant herbs and tomatos in the Spring and now they regularly bring organic tomatos home. Good way to teach about nature and about how the efforts pay back.
5. The prices are very reasonable.
Cons:
You probably won't find opening there. If there is an opening consider yourself very very lucky.

Nate Hart _{on Google}

Sep 2nd, 2018

We just started our daughter here. She loves it. The teachers are wonderful. The only problem is that she doesn't want to leave at the end of the day 😉