Little Log Cabin Child Care & Learning Center

My child attended little log cabin from the age of 2 1/2 or almost 3 to entry to kindergarten. I had pulled my child from another daycare and brought him to little log cabin due to the smaller classroom sizes. He learned so much during his time at this daycare and he is now doing well in kindergarten. The director is amazing to work with and they always called me with any concerns. They send home pictures with different activities that they do and I always felt comfortable dropping him off. This school is well known for being an amazing daycare in my work place and I recommend them to anyone looking for a comforting daycare for their child.

Little Log Cabin is a wonderful preschool. Both of our kids loved attending LLC, beginning when they were 2 ½, until they started grade school. We never experienced any negative situations and felt like the kids were loved and well cared for. Kids get tons of outside playtime which is a must at young ages. The teachers are a wonderful group of women, some of whom have been working there for well over a decade! I would absolutely recommend LLC! My youngest is in kinder now and is thriving because of the education he received at LLC.

Let me begin by stating that the classroom teachers at LLC care about the kids. However, the school leadership is significantly lacking. My child attended LLC for two years. It started pretty well, with only one major incident. This incident included our child having an asthma attack, and the staff forgot she had an inhaler and action plan. Rather than calling about the incident, we were told when we picked her up. This was concerning; however, during the past year, our experience went from fine to terrible, and the quality of instruction and care saw was unacceptable. Problems started when one teacher left mid-year and the other got sick. It turned into an absolute mess. This led to the higher-up teachers/the director going into the classroom, and instead of communicating the changes and the issues it was leading to, they blamed the kids for the problems. They even went so far as to tell us that our child was developmentally behind. This concerned us, so we had our child go through diagnostic testing with the local school district, and it turns out she is far from developmentally behind. This was not the only time the school director made inappropriate comments about kids who several times told us that other kids in the school need special education and they are not trained to work with that kind of kid. Beyond that, it was fairly common to walk into the school to overhear the director and lead teachers talking about kids and school issues as you check your child in or out. It came off as very unprofessional, and you would expect better from people who claim to love every child at a school. When I would go into the classroom to pick up my child, 90% of the time, the teachers were sitting at the tables, just yelling at the kids to stop—it was chaos. This environment had a noticeable negative impact on our child's behavior, as we saw our child begin to mimic the teacher’s behaviors at home with demands and yelling. We also saw a major decrease in engaging activities; 90% of the time, we got a coloring sheet, and our child complained that they played with the same toys daily. Now, I understand some unusual circumstances happened this year. Still, we never received any communication about what was going on, and when discussing issues with the director, it was always turned on us as it was not LLC's fault and what they were doing was best practice. Learning: they use an outdated curriculum because it is “easy for new teachers to learn,” and understand that you will probably have to work outside of school to ensure your child is ready for Kindergarten. Since changing schools, our child has learned more in a month than in the two years at LLC. Communication: There is no written communication, so it ends up being their word versus your word. Know that they will be hypocritical and condescending in those conversations to make themselves look like they did nothing wrong and that it is you, the parent, or your child’s fault. When I shared my frustrations with the director and said I planned to leave a Google review, the school's director claimed this was a threat and threatened to kick our child out. I guess that might be why there have been limited reviews of this place in the past couple of years…. Overall, I would not recommend this place to anyone. I understand childcare is hard to come by, but if you are invested in your child’s education, you will have many headaches. The approach to learning is outdated, and if they decide they do not want your child because they are causing them problems, they will find ways not to make you feel welcome.

The teachers here really care about your child`s well being and helping them develop into the best person they can. They work with kids learning school information as well as life skills such as manners and potty training help. Loved coming here as a kid and now I love working here. It is wonderful to see the excitement on the children`s faces when they learn something new and make arts and crafts. There are even summer field trips for the older kids so no one gets bored! Love love love it!

I was an older kid that went here, I hung around there around 2016-2019 and hated it mostly, they abused the younger kids and it genuinely made me sad to see. Don’t bring your kid here unless they’re a preschooler, the preschool teachers actually know how to deal with younger children. When I stopped by they were very nice to me, however the only good thing I considered about this place was the friends that I made. I still speak to them till this day even though I moved away and now live in Woodstock, Virginia. And the only good part about this place for older kids, 7-12 is when its summertime. About every month during summer the older kids get to go on field trips. I remember when I was 6 years old and went here I had accidentally ripped a card while playing go-fish with one of my friends and a staff member there saw me and started screaming at me while I sat there absolutely scared out of my mind because I was already going through abuse and home from my dad. And not to mention I was picked on a lot there by people who I thought were my friends. But yeah don’t bring a kid here unless if they’re a preschooler. And take them out of the LLC thing the day they hit 5.