Garden Patch Creative Learning Center

I completely disagree with the previous comment indicating that Garden Patch CLC is a bad place to take your kids. I find it is quite the opposite. Garden Patch offers a very friendly, caring, supervised, structured environment. It is an equal mix between professional and educational that I am proud to have my daughter be a part of. The previous reviewers mention of illness always being present — are you kidding, this is in ANY daycare facility! Garden Patch does just what they should do — they provide a very detailed handbook which outlines their sickness policy (among many other things) and they inform parents right away when an illness breaks out. Any doctor/​nurse will tell you that by the time a child is notably sick, they have most likely been sick for at least a few days and being around other kids daily, you can’t prevent everything. KIDS GET SICK! Also, I find the facility to be very clean. In fact, the adjoining bathrooms between classrooms have cleaning schedules and staff sign up/​are assigned daily cleaning chores. The rooms are always picked up for the next day; the floors constantly get vacuumed and mopped (I have seen them doing it several times, first hand).
As for boo-​boos, again, KIDS GET BOO-​BOOS! Garden Patch is very good about providing incident reports when a child gets hurt, even if it is minor. Parents are required to sign off on them which shows that they are always kept in the loop. They have playgrounds that are safe and completely fenced in with privacy fences. From what I have seen firsthand, they have staff that constantly monitors the children in their rooms and ensure the children are kept in order.
My daughter has learned so much since being with Garden Patch. Staring in the 2’s class, she learned and was able to count to 10 in Spanish (and even say a few words). They integrate education with art and play, which is extremely important for child development. I have an entire tote full to the brim with worksheets, art, and other things that my daughter has learned on a daily basis. So I am not sure why the previous commenter indicated there is no structure… it is very structured and activities are age-​appropriate yet challenging.
The owner of Garden Patch takes extreme pride in what she is able to provide to her families and their children. She even emails everyone to let them know when she is going to be out of town or out of the office (for training and such) for period of time — no other daycare director I have ever come across does this. In fact, you hardly ever SEE directors at other facilities — but the director at Garden Patch is very hands on and is on-​site constantly.
I never hesitate to recommend Garden Patch to anyone who asks or is looking for childcare, because this facility is not just merely «daycare,» it provides infant/​childcare, preschool, pre-​k all wrapped into one. I am proud to take my daughter here and can’t imagine her learning anywhere else.