Best preschool programs in Oakland, CA

Swimming includes lap swimming, swim lessons, warm water fitness, and water aerobics. The program takes place at YMCA of the East Bay fitness centers and pools across the East Bay. For more than 100 years, the YMCA of the East Bay has been bringing...

L’Academy Kensington/Berkeley – Toddler Program includes Spanish and Mandarin immersion, art, music, storytelling, circle time, projects, painting, rhythm, song, sensory exploration, and outdoor play. The program also offers a Kung Fu enrichment...

Building Kidz of Berkeley Preschool Program includes daily activities such as music, dance, theater, and performing arts, along with Broadway style productions. Children also take part in finger painting, pretend play, circle time, story time, art,...

UC Berkeley Early Childhood Education Program is UC Berkeley’s multi-site lab school program that provides care and education to infants, toddlers, and preschoolers at five centers in Berkeley and Albany. The program offers intentional,...

Step One School offers three distinct programs called Two Year Olds, Preschool, and Extended Care. The program uses play as the primary framework for learning in early childhood and emphasizes a focus on diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging....

Albany Children's Center Preschool is described as a premier preschool program that offers a nurturing and stimulating environment. The program focuses on social, emotional, physical, and intellectual growth in a safe and inclusive space where...

Holy Shepherd Community Preschool includes activities such as cooking their own snack, building many kinds of towers, creating superheroes with capes and original stories, and hatching baby chickens. The program uses a teacher-guided, child-driven,...

St. John Preschool offers a program based on current and effective child care and educational practices. The curriculum is literacy based and child centered, with child-initiated, teacher-supported play as an essential part of the classroom. Each...

Open Minds Early School offers Spanish immersion, language immersion, music, creative projects, and homework support as part of its daily activities. The program follows a child-centered learning approach guided by the Reggio Emilia philosophy, with...

Linda Beach Cooperative Preschool is a co-op preschool with small class sizes of up to 20 students, with 2 teachers and 2 parent volunteers in both the 2–3 Year Old and 3–4 Year Old programs. The program offers part-time, play-based classes called...

Colibrí Preschool is a Spanish immersion preschool that uses the Creative Curriculum® for Preschool as its learning framework. The program offers a child-centered and developmentally appropriate program for two- through five-year-old children, with...

Creative Montessori Preschool & Daycare offers Montessori-style activities with hands-on learning, sensory work, language work, and movement work. Children take part in outdoor playtime, group learning and play, pre-literacy, color and shape...

Gan Ilan Preschool offers play-based learning and a child-centered curriculum that includes children’s yoga, music, gardening, recycling, and specialized learning about Judaism. Children are exposed to Hebrew organically through learning some...

El Cerrito Preschool Cooperative Summer Camp includes a short opening group time, large group time with music, stories, and games, and small group time with one adult and 4–5 children playing games, making crafts, or reading. Children have free play...

Mi Mundo Preschool is an art school taught in Spanish where children take part in activities such as art, Spanish, culture, geography, family, science, and play. The program uses hands-on classrooms where children can express and develop cognitive,...

Children’s Community Center Preschool offers hands-on activities where children sew, cook and bake, create art, sing, and explore science, music and movement, sign language, and storytelling. Children spend time outdoors pumping water, building...

Oceanview Montessori is a year-round, full-day preschool program where children use various Montessori materials, books, and artwork in a well-organized indoor space. The program also includes outdoor time in a backyard that has tricycles, play...

St. John the Baptist School Preschool is part of St. John the Baptist School, a Catholic school that includes preschool through 8th grade and enrolls about 200 students. The preschool program welcomes children from 2 years to 3 years and 11 months...

The Good Earth School is a nature-based preschool in Northern California that follows a play-based, nature-inspired approach. The program uses nature-inspired learning and an emergent curriculum approach that emphasizes connecting children to the...

Little Lamb Bilingual Academy offers activities in performing arts, calligraphy, martial arts, and art, along with math and phonics. The program also includes bilingual reading and writing in Chinese and English within a theme-based...