Potomac Music is Northern Virginia’s home for all things music! We offer an award winning Kindermusik program for children ages birth – 7. Join us for one of our weekly classes or playdates! Potomac Music also offers one-on-one lessons on ALL instruments for children ages 5+ and adults, plus lots of small group classes, seasonal camps, bi-weekly Open Mic Nights, FREE outdoor live music during the summer, and best of all we have a wonderful community. We invite you to be a part of it!
We’re a child care center and preschool that serves children 6 weeks to 5 years old. Our carefully crafted education programs are individualized to encourage curious, happy, and confident children at every age and stage.
Camp CHOP summer camp is a culinary camp for kids ages 10-17. This cooking summer camp provides a fun and dynamic hands-on educational experience for young chefs passionate about the culinary arts.
In our state-of-the-art teaching kitchen, aspiring chefs learn the basics of cooking, baking, and kitchen safety, while enjoying an enriching, memorable, and fun summer camp experience. The Camp CHOP instructional team includes professional chefs, veteran teachers, camp professionals, and scientists who provide a truly unique and immersive experience that kids will be talking about all year.
As the newest addition to our world-renowned collection of programs, Camp CHOP benefits from our 40 years of camp and educational program experience, including enhancing the lives of 1.5 million campers who have participated in our programs across the country.
Smells delicious… what are you waiting for?
- Boys & Girls
- Ages 10-17
- Culinary Camp
- State-of-the-Art Teaching Kitchen
- Cooking & Baking Classes
- Fun Traditional Camp Activities
- Professional Chef Instruction
- 1 & 2 Week Options
Your child will get the tools they need to build confidence and become a proficient driver, while learning new skills and making new friends.
Camp Motorsport is located on 406 acres of beautiful rolling meadow, bordered by the Staunton River and surrounded by woods a short distance from the town of Clover, Virginia. Your camper will experience hands-on driving instruction and participate in a variety of traditional summer camp activities.
Campers receive basic and expert instruction in the classroom and on our 1.5 miles of paved go-kart track and 20 miles of off-road track and trails. They learn basic driving techniques like determining driving lines and proper hand placement to more advanced techniques such as threshold braking.
- Boys & Girls
- Ages 9-17
- Motorsport Camp
- One-of-a-Kind Paved Tracks
- Off-Road Tracks and Trails
- Fun Traditional Camp Activities
- Personalized Expert Instruction
- 1 & 2 Week Options
If you have kids ages 8-17 who are interested in a science and adventure summer camp experience, AstroCamp is the perfect place for them!
Kids who join one of our six fun-filled one-week sessions, or our two week session, enjoy the experience of a lifetime learning science, developing new skills and having fun with newfound friends.
AstroCamp is located on 406 acres of rolling meadow surrounded by woods and bordered by the Staunton River near the town of Clover, VA. Your camper will experiment in hands-on science labs, get astronomy training, and participate in a variety of camp activities that include traditional summer camp fun!
AstroCamp Virginia is a STEM-based science and adventure summer camp that pushes campers to deepen their understanding of science. Campers participate in hands-on activities playing in our state-of-the-art labs, building and launching rockets and searching the night sky with our vast array of telescopes.
Learning Leaf is a unique Reggio-Emilia Approach inspired child development center providing exceptional care for Infants (6 weeks) to Pre-K. We offer safe and loving individualized care, small classes, high teacher to student ratios, Kindergarten pre-readiness, use of STEAM, sign language, music enrichment, extracurriculars, and other unique curricula offerings. We are open Monday through Friday, from 7:00 am to 6:00 pm.
The Montessori School of Chevy Chase is accepting applications for the 2021/2022 school year.
We offer:
- Toddler Program for 18 months – 2.6 years
- English Primary for 2.6 – Kindergarten
- French Immersion for 2.6 – Kindergarten
The Lane is a family social club in Ivy City in Washington, DC. Our mission is to be a positive gathering space to create community and fun for families in the DC area. We offer an indoor/outdoor play space where children 6 and under can play safely while parents relax, eat, and drink. While the pandemic has shifted our offerings, we are still committed to being a hub of activity for young families. We are currently housing daily learning pods while school is virtual and using our space for select classes and private events. We look forward to bringing open play, food and drinks, and birthday parties back into our daily operation as it becomes safe to do so.
Founded in 1969, the Washington Waldorf School is a vibrant school community that is part of the worldwide Waldorf education movement.
Our Early Childhood program supports the development of children’s awakening capacities to think clearly, to feel fully, and to act freely. Our preschool and kindergarten emphasize creative imagination and play along with considerable time outside in all weather.
Our classes start at birth with a parent-child program and go through 12th Grade. Our school traditions and festivals connect us with a strong community spirit.
Some options include: forest kindergarten, summer camps, and healthy lunches.
Student Ages:
Parent-Child, Preschool to 12th Grade
Help your child connect to other kids and learn through outdoor play. In this new class, a certified Tinkergarten Leader guides the group through an engaging 30-min online session, introducing a new play lesson each week. Each lesson supports a different aspect of creativity and inspires hours of purposeful play at home. You get easy activity guides and Q&A with your Leader to help you support your child’s learning, too.
With weekday, weekend, morning and afternoon classes, Circle Time is a joyful and enriching compliment to any learning program this fall!
Make Music Together®…Online!
With young children engaged in distance learning, parents and caregivers now find themselves in the position of educator-at-home. The bright side to this is that family engagement in early childhood is a predictor of children’s early learning skills and later school success. Music Together Online is an enjoyable, cognitively stimulating, and literacy-rich activity for children and parents to engage in together!
Families with infants to 8 year olds can now take classes with the Music Together Sing and Groove teachers they love and be part of a musical community, all without leaving home!
Moonlit Wings performing arts programs are WINNERS of Washington Family Magazine’s 2020 “Best for Families” contest for the categories of “Best Arts Program” and “Best Children’s Theatre & Drama Instruction.” These award-winning programs include acting classes, camps and advising for arts college admissions. Founded in 2008, Moonlit Wings Productions produces creative events and award-winning educational programs that elevate the greater DC area as a major hub for theater and filmmaking through collaborations from NY, LA and beyond.
CommuniKids Language Immersion Preschool offers full-day Spanish immersion in DC for children 18 months to 2 /12 years of age. As part of the DC’s Enhancement and Expansion Program, DC residents can enter lottery and get FREE PreK 3 and 4. Our programs are NAEYC accredited which is the gold standard in early childhood education. Our Falls Church Location offers your choice of Spanish, French, or Mandarin Immersion programs for children 2 1/2 to 5 years of age. All locations offer before and aftercare, weekly language classes, afterschool programs, and summer camps.
Partners in Learning provides educational support to families and independent schools in the D.C. metro area. PIL offers one-on-one tutoring, enrichment, speech-language therapy, behavioral support, assessments, consulting, and professional development.
Specializations include supporting students with specific learning disabilities, attention deficit disorder, receptive/expressive language deficits, students learning English as a second language, and autism. Additionally, PIL offers a variety of workshops to train teachers in supporting students in areas of need.
We enjoy supporting students from a variety of schools and work closely with teachers to align content and ensure students carry over skills from tutoring and speech into the classroom. Some of the schools that our students attend include GDS, St. Patricks, NPS, Landon, St. Albans, Lowell, Maret, Norwood, and public schools in DC, Maryland, and Virginia.
Goofy, joyful & genuine music classes, speech-language therapy, developmental programming, music lessons, and inclusion consulting in Washington DC, Northern Virginia, and beyond.
Located in the heart of Tenleytown, Confetti Play Cafe offers a community space for families to enjoy free play, birthday parties, classes, and special events. Our cafe offers a relaxing and minimalist place for parents, with gourmet coffee, sweet and savory treats, light fare, and school lunches to go.
During the COVID-19 crisis, we are offering a Virtual Summer Adventure Camp with unique themes each week to help children explore, engage with their peers, and have fun! Join us for our hand-on, fully interactive, online summer adventure camp lead by engaging, live camp counselors. Camp runs 1-4pm EST and since it is all virtual, kids from anywhere can join us, so tell your friends and family!
Ideal for 1st-6th graders, camp includes:
- Adventure puzzle escape rooms
- Language learning (with Rosetta Stone)
- Hands-on science, art, and cooking projects
- Fitness challenges
- Time to socialize and play games with new friends
- Time on and off the screen
- Live counselor interacting with your child
Founded with a passion to improve the lives of early learners, Rhyme to Read aspires to embolden all children with a zeal for reading. As educators, we set out to create an easy-to-use and accessible resource to help young students gain the skills and confidence needed for future success. The Rhyme to Read books and activities are designed to be intuitive, interactive, and inclusive for children of all backgrounds.We have been so humbled by the overwhelming response from parents and teachers that Rhyme to Read has provided the missing link to building a strong literacy foundation for young readers.
Elodie’s Naturals was born from a mission: educate and offer healthy, fresh, and effective skincare products. You can take a workshop, or a class or order online a personalized skincare after taking a quiz online.
Looking for Fun, Engaging Music Lessons? Need help with Orchestra or Band?
Or just want to learn to Play Your Favorite Music?
With two locations in Bethesda and Potomac, and with online lessons, The International School of Music brings together a community of dedicated, experienced, world-class faculty that offers personalized lessons in piano, guitar, voice, violin, viola, cello, flute, drums, saxophone, clarinet, harp, recorder, trumpet, trombone, bassoon, ensembles, group classes, toddler and preschooler music classes and amazing performance opportunities. Our teaching methods are student-centered, and are focused on individual learning styles and personal artistic goals to help each and every student reach his or her full musical potential.
With a flexible curriculum that rewards practicing and achievement, our students get to explore music they are passionate about whether they play classical, rock, pop, jazz, folk, etc. And with our same-time sibling scheduling, our families enjoy convenience and flexibility!
With a large faculty, we are confident that we have the right teacher to help you achieve your musical goals!
So call us today at 301-365-5888 to schedule your introductory lesson and see how much fun music can be! Or visit us at https://www.ismw.org