Kiwi Academy

My daughter has a lot of food allergies and generally a very sensitive kid. So we are extremely careful when selecting daycares. We visited dozens of daycares/​preschools before we found Kiwi. In our mind, low student teacher ratio, caring and detail oriented teachers, fresh and organic food, bright, spacious and clean spaces are the most important. Kiwi has them all! The student teacher ratio is no more than 4:1. The teachers — Jenny and Patty love the kids. My daughter always mention their names at home and talks about how she likes them. The teachers always make sure special requirements by the parents are met. For example, we asked the teachers to help her eat vegetables first during lunch, make sure she doesn’t touch anything she’s allergic to, etc., they never missed once. My daughter has never had any food allergy accident at Kiwi. Knowing how hard it is, I can tell the teachers are very careful. The food they serve are all organic. They provide free lunch. Although due to allergy we bring our own lunch, but we still benefit from the organic fruits that are serve everyday. Talking about the space, I was impressed by how clean, spacious and organized the rooms are when I first visited the school before it’s grand opening.
After a couple of weeks at Kiwi we found there’re more that Kiwi offers. Nature walks once a week to the nearby park or elementary school gives good opportunity for the kids to exercise their little musles and get to know the nature. My daughter participated in a couple of field trips already (Palo Alto Jr Museum, Oak Meadow park, etc). Their program is really ‘bilingual’ since my daughter is reciting and singing lots of Chinese nursery rhymes, poems and songs at home, and she has picked up lots of English words (Kiwi has a native speaker teacher coming twice a week to teach English). My daughter brings home a new craft every day and when children are playing or «working» on their craft table, the teachers always play either classical music or traditional Chinese music. The teachers have put so much efforts in enriching the kids in every way !
I want to thank Kiwi for keeping the little ones healthy and happy!

Where to begin!!! Kiwi Academy is the best thing that has ever happened to my family so far!!! It is the home away from home for my 3yr old son. It literally took 6+ months to find what I was looking for… A needle in a hay stack!!! I have taken care of him for 2.5yrs, he was with me everywhere. So needless to say that I could not leave him without a fit. Hence I rarely left him anywhere. I am a wimp like this. But it was time for him to explore new horizons on his own. I started my search in May 2012. I visited all kind of daycares, homecares, schools accommodating toddlers… My son was my thermometer. Some places I would just park in front of the house and he would start crying, others he would pull me out once in, anyways, you get the picture. With Mrs, Jenny it was a completely different story. First, she is an adorable woman, very sweet, second her home is clean, bright, and has several rooms for the kids to move around, and GET THAT, she actually has a REAL program, one that she actually applies, and the kicker was when we left the visit, my son smiled at her and was about to give her a hug! :)
He started there at the end of Janury 2013. Within 3 months, my son was more confident, more articulate, and more social. He bloomed!
I feel so blessed to have found Mrs Jenny/​Kiwi Academy.
Things she does for us: — Teach Mandarin to our son
— Feeds him organic food, (providing him with a balanced meal and healthy choice of drinks)
— Teaches him movements/​introduces him to music instruments
— Open his mind with new cool & interesting stuff daily (brings back daily projects he is so proud of)
— Makes him feel loved and appreciated
— Makes us feel at ease knowing our son is safe when he is with her
Mrs Jenny is the director, but she has also a pretty awesome crew of teachers that my son raves about when he is home. So thank you to everyone from Kiwi Academy!!!
I would recommend Jenny/​Kiwi Academy to any parents wanting the best for their kids!