Congratulations to Jenn S. for her review of Sunshine Preschool in Hamden! Jenn was also our all-star reviewer last month. She wrote terrific reviews for Ridge Hill School in Hamden and the Hamden Parks and Recreation Camp. 
Thanks to the kind folks at Elm City Market, Jenn gets a $50 gift card in thanks for her hard work. Read her review below, and click here to write your own review to be next month’s winner!
- Mira and the schoolHaven committee
March 2013. I have had two kids at Sunshine—my five-year-old was there until she started at one of the NH Magnet schools for Pre-K and my 20-month old has been there since he was six or eight weeks old; and now that my older daughter is in our neighborhood school’s kindergarten she goes to Sunshine after school each day.
Sunshine is everything I like in a daycare (and my daughter had been at two or three others before we settled on Sunshine). It’s large enough that it is much more than a home-based daycare with separate spaces for the babies, toddlers and preschoolers, a curriculum for each—but small enough that it feels homey and has a family-like atmosphere.
This is the best-priced daycare I’ve been able to find in the area and is the ONLY daycare I know of anywhere that is as flexible with days/hours as it is. When my daughter was little she would go 4 days a week (NOBODY does that!) and when my son first started I had him going three six-hour days… The understanding and flexibility is amazing. Everyone who works there is completely devoted and friendly and they always have a smile on their face.
I honestly think the only con I can think of is that they do close for a week during the summer, and for the week between Christmas and New Year’s. I could understand this at a much smaller home-based daycare, but I do feel that with a staff they shouldn’t have a summer week completely closed… but it’s a small price to pay.
I couldn’t recommend Sunshine enough!! Jenn S.
