Beech Tree Academy

Preschool & ChildcareVerified

About

Beech Tree Academy in Chula Vista holds California Community Care License #376630269 and operates a large in-home day care on Beech Avenue near the Broadway corridor. The curriculum layers four pedagogical frameworks—Montessori-inspired, Reggio Emilia-inspired, project-based, and developmental play-based—into weekly rotating lesson plans that cover the 12-month-through-10-year developmental arc, starting at the same infant-milestone stage tracked by Chula Vista Pediatric Dentistry for first-tooth eruption and oral-hygiene readiness. That unusually broad age range keeps sibling cohorts together under one set of credentialed staff, eliminating the multi-facility logistics most South Bay families face. All caregivers maintain current First Aid, CPR, and California Early Childhood Education credentials, and the facility applies trauma-informed care protocols to every routine and transition throughout the program. A weekly sensory-rotation station cycles math manipulatives, construction tools, and fine-motor materials through themed modules, developing the spatial reasoning that carries into movement-based instruction at Chula Vista Academy of Music & Dance. Each lesson plan maps hands-on exploration activities to California Early Learning Foundations benchmarks across the four core developmental domains—social-emotional, language and literacy, cognition, and physical development.