Guide to a Great Preschool

After the reality of move to a new part of the country, we realized we were past the dead lines to get our three year old daughter into a preschool and could find no resources on the internet or through our real estate agent. We searched for anything published with no luck, even calling doctors offices and came up with nothing.

After the move we only had a couple of months and alot of the neighbor recommendations were all full. As a last minute decision, we went with a local multi arts preschool that had openings and it didn't take long to realize why. We took our daughter out and had to wait a year for an opening at a local church preschool.

To say the least, we got very lucky this time around with Saint Andrews Presbyterian Preschool. This is an extremely well run school which does not seem to be too attached to the church membership as we worried about this with a church preschool since we do not currently belong to a church. We did not want to feel like we were going to church to take our daughter to school, we wanted to feel like we were taking her to a school that was a church. We didn't want to be questioned about why we didn't go to this church. We like the church, but are not ready to join.

The director is the happiest, friendliest person I have ever met and is that way consistantly day to day and person to person. She seems to be able to handle it all happily and seems to have a great working relationship with her staff as well as the parents and kids.The teachers were the same throughout the year and were all great with my daughter.
The school has a music room for music and movement classes throughout the year along with a discovery room with lots of science related material and aquariums with lots of creepy crawly things kids love so much.