Valle de Niños - Bilingual Preschool
Experience our nature play-based bilingual program at Valle de Niños.
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Mission
Our bilingual program is a rich resource for parents as well as children. By scheduling monthly parent gatherings at Valle de Niños, parents can meet and discuss child development and build community.
Our bilingual program will teach children English and Spanish through reading, singing, daily activities and natural conversations.
Philosophy
Children learn the best through play by experiencing and experimenting in a safe, secure, nurturing environment.
Through our nature play- based curriculum children develop their social, cognitive and language skills. There are several outlets for reading books, music, art, cooking, and gardening. By facilitating these experiences, children become engaged, independent learners.
Our Story
Founded by Aida Lane in 2013, Valle de Niños has been providing language instruction to students from around the world. Our passion for art, music and language learning drives us to provide the best possible instruction to our students.
Aida's mentors include her mother in law Mary B. Lane professor of Early Childhood Education at SFSU and founder of Head Start and Cross Cultural Family center. Effie Kuriloff was the Director at Rocky Mountain Nursery school when Aida's children attended Preschool. She inspired Aida to study Early Childhood Education at CCSF while participating as a Parent teacher. Marie Miranda was also the Director of the Afternoon program at Rocky Mountain and one of Aida's first teachers at Valle de Niños.
"I am very fortunate to have had such amazing role models and inspirational leaders!"
Aida Murguia-Lane
Quality Rating Index
Valle de Niños' bilingual program
At Valle de Niños, we believe that learning a new language opens doors to new cultures, friendships, and opportunities. Our dedicated teachers are passionate about learning through singing, reading, art, and daily activities. We prioritize creating a warm and supportive environment where every child can be unique and grow. Our students transfer to Alvarado, TECA, and Buena Vista immersion programs.
Our school has gone through the QRIS-Quality Rating Index system to evaluate our Program and Teacher-Student interactions. Here is how we compare to other programs.
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Why Choose Valle de Niños?
- At Valle de Niños, we believe that language learning should be accessible and enjoyable for everyone. Our experienced teachers and immersive curriculum make learning a new language an exciting and rewarding experience.
Our Classes
- Our mixed age classes help support your child's vocabulary scaffolding and exposes children to a second language. Children will learn spanish through art, literacy, music and movement activities.
Bilingual Learning
Valle de Niños bilingual program is perfect for those starting from scratch. Through engaging activities, real-world conversations, and cultural insights, students will build confidence in speaking, listening, and understanding in English and Spanish. Our supportive environment ensures every learner feels comfortable to practice and improve their skills.
Parent Testimonials
Parent Testimonials
Gaby
Gaby's 4-year-old attended Valle De Niños Preschool in 2014
Positive nurturing experience.
We needed quality and affordable full-time care for our daughter. We feel confident and relaxed knowing that our child is in a safe, engaging, nurturing environment. She has been exposed to creative projects, she has grown emotionally and socially, and she loves and enjoys going to school every single day.
We feel grateful and fortunate to be part of this awesome preschool.
Why Valle De Niños Preschool?
I chose Valle de Niños because of its bilingual program, play-based, small size. High qualified teachers. Nurturing program.
Outstanding Teachers/Staff
All the teachers are great and unique. They all have contributed to our daughter's growing. However, our daughter adores the director/teacher Aida!
Favorite Activities
Using a real drill to build a bird house
Learning to sew
Field trip to Elkus Ranch
Making a clay volcano
Drumming class
Tie-dye
Water play
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Eliza
Eliza's 3 year old attended Valle De Niños Preschool
We love it! Such a wonderful dynamic. A great size. A lovely group of teachers and other families. Our daughter never wants to leave when we go to pick her up.
We are a white, well educated, not very high earning family. We are looking to help our daughter feel connected to and well-integrated with our neighborhood and many different individuals and groups of people who live in it. Learning Spanish is an important part of this for us. We want her to be in a stable, play-filled, curiosity filled environment, that introduces her to new experiences and ideas, while also letting her explore those new ideas on her own. We don't want her to be in too much of a bubble where she's only meeting other people from one particular cultural identity or group. Valle is really striking that balance for us. She is very very happy there, and we feel like she is growing and learning in great ways, many of which complement and really add on to what we are able to provide at home.
Why Valle De Niños Preschool?
A number of factors contributed to our choice. We were thinking about timing, proximity to our home, ability to do 3 days instead of 5 days, philosophy of the school, physical environment of the school, culture of the school, access to Spanish, and overall feeling about the situation. We also already had two friends enrolled who had given Valle great reviews. We were only considering play-based places.
Parent Testimonials
Parent Testimonials
Parent Testimonials
Vanessa's 2 year old attended Valle De Niños Preschool
My son took to the school from day one and is always excited to go. Sometimes it is hard to get him to leave.
I was surprised and happy to learn that Teacher Aida's philosophy is similar to our family in the way the children are treated. I appreciate the monthly family gatherings which always make me happy to be part of this special school. I love that they have animals that live in the classroom and Teacher Aida is so adept at handling them as well as having the children spend time with them. She has hired some very special teachers as well that make it such a well-rounded preschool. Teacher Julia has brought in some Waldorf inspiration that I love. I did have intentions to apply to other schools this year that my son was now old enough for but decided that this place was perfect for our family at this time, so we are staying next year.
Why Valle De Niños Preschool?
I was looking for a preschool in my neighborhood that had outside space and part-time availability.
Outstanding Teachers/Staff
Yes. My son really loves Marie. Today he asked me why does she have to leave to go to another school? I miss her sometimes.
I love teacher Julia's Waldorf philosophy that she incorporates into the school.
Favorite Activities
The field trip to Elkus Ranch was a hit.