AmericaEd Learning Center offers preschool, afterschool, summer school, and daily drop-off and Saturday childcare programs.

The age-appropriate curriculum offers year around programs in basic academic skills (reading, writing, math and social), art, performing arts, music, musical theater, team and individual sports, critical thinking, and enrichment classes.

Baby Steps Family Child Care is a play-based family childcare located on the border of Stern Grove park with access to the park and nature trails. Aside from visits to local parks, the center also offers frequent field trips to beaches, museums, and other attractions.

The director of Baby Steps has a masters degree in early childhood education from SFSU and the teachers and staff are screened and fingerprinted.

Buena Vista Child Care is a fully licensed and accredited before- and afterschool program.

It provides art, sports, science, music, and other activities, as well as homework help in Spanish and English.

Full time care is also available during winter, spring, and summer breaks. Please call for more information.

Kids Outdoor Club provides an opportunity for classic, undirected free play in a gorgeous, natural, outdoor setting. Kids can join organized competitive sports or cooperative games, create their own group activities, or play independently.

As part of a monthly club membership, families can visit any time for up to three hours at a time.

Please call 415.407.0813 or email Scott at
scott@kidsoutdoorclub com. to discover more about Summer and holiday camps.

A fully licensed family daycare program in South San Jose. The program offers artistic activities, music, outdoor activities, guidance with homework, and group play.

A highly reputable firm known mostly for the care with which it places nannies in homes, both live-in and live-out. It only accepts candidates who are experienced and come highly recommended, and it screens each one closely.

The firm also claims an expertise in finding baby nurses, housekeepers, personal assistants, household managers, butlers, and chefs.

It can also find temporary nannies for local families. Call 800.398.8810 to book a sitter at least 24 hours in advance of your outing. Babysitting rates run $16-$20/hour, with a four-hour minimum, and there is a fee if you cancel within 48 hours of your date.

Town & Country's thorough service does not come cheap. It charges 15% of a full year's compensation for permanent childcare and household help, and 25% for baby nurses and 35% for temporary help. But the agency is responsive and responsible, and several people we've spoken with have been pleased with its services.

A highly reputable firm known mostly for the care with which it places nannies in homes, both live-in and live-out. It only accepts candidates who are experienced and come highly recommended, and it screens each one closely.

The firm also claims an expertise in finding baby nurses, housekeepers, personal assistants, household managers, butlers, and chefs.

It can also find temporary nannies for local families. Call 800.398.8810 to book a sitter at least 24 hours in advance of your outing. Babysitting rates run $16-$20/hour, with a four-hour minimum, and there is a fee if you cancel within 48 hours of your date.

Town & Country's thorough service does not come cheap. It charges 15% of a full year's compensation for permanent childcare and household help, and 25% for baby nurses and 35% for temporary help. But the agency is responsive and responsible, and several people we've spoken with have been pleased with its services.

Tule Elk Park (TEP) Child Development Center is one of thirty-six centers operated by the San Francisco Unified School District. TEP offers an all-day pre-kindergarten and after-school program for 196 children. Tour, enrollment, and tuition information is available on the website.

The curriculum framework integrates three core programs - environmental education, artist-in-residence, and music and movement. The curriculum is delivered through the project approach as influenced by the public preschool system in Reggio Emilia, Italy. The site priorities are Literacy Development and Project-Based Learning, Parent Involvement and Community Building, and Professional Development and Leadership.

TEP offers an interdisciplinary curriculum which allows children to study a topic in-depth over an extended period of time. Tule Elk children play and learn in an outdoor environment (20,000 square feet) complete with oak trees, redwood totem carvings, native plant and butterfly habitats, an art studio, and their own vegetable and herb garden. The schoolyard and the garden comprise the outdoor classroom where children study science, math, language, and the visual arts in the dynamic structure of the natural world.

Tuition:

Pre-Kindergarten:(three to five years)$34/a day full-time.

School-age: (five years to 5th grade): $17.50/a day for
part-time afterschool program. During summer sessions, school-age students pay the $34/day for full-time enrollment.

Note: Subsized tuition rates are determined by the
state for low-income families. See enrollment section
on the school's website for more information.