10 Reasons to Choose Sweet Pea
1. Sweet Pea Cottage Preschool of the Arts is a fun, exciting, unique arts-based curriculum that gives children a Passport Throughout the World where we:
Focus on a different artist, flower, and shape each month and a different region, color, letter, & number each week.
Have regular special guests – working artists in the community, dancers, musicians, actors, carpenters, friends and family from the region we’re studying, even a bald eagle and a boa constrictor.
Enjoy Circle Time, Music, Dance, Art, Nature Walk, Obstacle Course, Theatre, Foreign Language, Story Time, Yoga, Cooking Class, and more each week.
Have a special fieldtrip class available on Thursdays for 4-6 year olds. Recent fieldtrips have included The Odyssey Maritime Museum, Symphony Soundbridge at Benaroya Hall, Qwest Field, The Seattle Children’s Theatre, The Center for Wooden Boats, Kelsey Creek Farms, Discovery Park, a local Bakery, Florist, and Pet Shop.
2. Sweet Pea College, our kindergarten preparedness program, is available for 4-6 year olds. This program fully prepares our students for the kindergarten experience – socially, emotionally, and academically. The foundation of our program focuses on teaching positive peer interactions and important character building values such as honesty, friendship, stewardship, responsibility, and perseverance as well as math skills and reading readiness.
3. Unique scheduling and money-saving benefits:
Flexible Scheduling: We offer sessions each day 9am-1pm, 10am-2pm, or 11am-3pm. We will work with you to pick the days and times you wish to attend. We customize each package to the specific family based on what works best for you.
Make-Up days: when your child is absent for a regularly scheduled day, you have 30 days to schedule a free make-up day.
Vacation days: each quarter you have one week of vacation, equal to the number of days your child attends per week, which will be credited to your invoice.
Drop In Days: We have a flexible drop-in program on a space-available basis for just $45.00/day.
Sibling Discount: When you enroll a second child at Sweet Pea, you are eligible for a 15% sibling discount. (Note 3rd child in a family is full price & 4th is eligible for the discount.)
4. Mixed age classrooms for children ages 2 ½ to 6.
5. In addition to their extensive background and experience in early childhood education, our teachers are also dedicated working artists. In fact, there is a good chance you’ve seen them on stage around town!
6. We provide fabulous vegetarian, primarily organic snacks and lunches created by a trained natural foods chef. While they are largely comprised of foods that children are comfortable with, our menus are carefully tied to each week’s regional focus so that children experience flavors from all over the world.
7. Regular communication:
Daily Journals are provided at the end of each day so parents know all about what their child did and how their day went.
Parent/Teacher Conferences are scheduled in Fall and Spring quarters for a more extended discussion with teachers.
Meetings can be scheduled as needed with teachers and senior staff to discuss anything that might be going on with your child at school or at home.
8. Potty training is not required. Diapers are provided. We’ll help you with potty training when the time is right for your child.
9. We have fantastic families at Sweet Pea. There are many great ways to get to know other families and become involved in the Sweet Pea community including:
Mom’s Night Out each month.
Monthly Kid’s Klub when your children can spend 4 hours at Sweet Pea doing activities and you can have an afternoon or evening out.
Quarterly Events including Family Movie & Art Days, Concerts, and Family Dinners.
Friends of Sweet Pea – a volunteer parent-driven organization helping make Sweet Pea the best it can be!
10. Last but certainly not least, we have 3 fabulous locations in Queen Anne, Sand Point and West Seattle!
