Greater Philadelphia YMCA Child Care

Earlier this spring, our Commerce ELC Pre K learners celebrated the end of their unit studying restaurants! 🍽️

They created menus, designed their own aprons, and became little chefs, waiters, hosts, and managers to bring their Classroom 2 Cafe to life!

We invited families to the "grand opening" where the students served appetizers, pizzas, and dessert! 💙

Did you know the Y offers Before and After School Care at nearly 60 locations?! This program helps fill a gap for working parents by keeping kids safe when not in school.

Click the link below to learn more about this care program, locations, and how to register for the current or upcoming school year.

Before and After School Care Our Before & After School Enrichment (BASE) Program helps fill a gap for working families by keeping kids safe and engaged in learning when not in school.

Early Learning Center teams gathered for a development day to learn about brain development, culture & biases, and generational trauma from NeuroLogic by Lakeside! 🧠

We discussed how to navigate these topics and their implications on early childhood education so we can better serve our child care families and communities. 💙

We're learning through play! 💙 From blocks and story time to art, music, and movement, there are endless ways for children to learn and express themselves throughout the day.

Our Roxborough YMCA Early Learning Center had a guest reader last week! We welcomed Rep. Tarik Khan to our Pre-K Counts classroom to read a great book and meet our incredible staff.

Thank you to First Up: Champions for Early Education for connecting us with local leaders to create special moments for our little learners.

Did you know that reading to pets and stuffed animals can boost confidence, build fluency, and make story time even more fun? 🐾📚 Our storytelling students practiced their skills with the support of their stuffed animals!

📍 Briggs Early Learning Center

Did you know that playing with blocks helps little learners with their fine motor skills? 🏗️ All toys in our play areas double as learning tools!

📍 Montgomery County Community College Early Learning Center

Our student scientists at the Northeast Family YMCA Early Learning Center had so much fun creating their very own volcanoes! 🌋🧪

They used recycled water bottles and playdough to create realistic scenes before watching their volcanoes erupt!

Happy (belated) Earth Day from our Rocky Run YMCA Early Learning Center students! 🌎 We read about the importance of trees, learned about gardening and plants, and created our own depictions of Earth! 💚

Last week our students had a special guest reader, Rep. Melissa Shusterman! 🎉📖 They celebrated Week of the Young Child by reading The Great Cookie Kerfuffle together.

📍 Phoenixville YMCA Early Learning Center