Welcome to Children's Castle early Learning Center
Children’s Castle Early Learning Center
Where Little Hands Create Big Dreams!
Our Amazing Programs
From tiny tots to big kids, we have the perfect program to help your child learn, grow, and thrive!
Infant Care
Age: 6 weeks - 12 months
Gentle, loving care for your littlest ones with personalized attention and developmental activities.
Toddler Program
Age: 1 – 2 years
Pre School
Age: 3-4 Years
Pre-K
Age: 4-5 Years
School Age
Age: 5 – 12 Years
Before- and after-school care offering homework support, enrichment activities, and a safe space for learning and fun.
Experienced Teachers
Our skilled teachers bring years of early childhood experience, guiding every child with care, creativity, and personalized attention for confident learning and growth.
Nutritious Meals
We serve healthy, balanced meals prepared with care, supporting children’s physical growth, energy, and good eating habits in a safe, hygienic setting.
Safe Environment
We provide a secure, clean, and nurturing environment where children feel protected, comfortable, and encouraged to explore, learn, and grow with confidence.
Learning Through Play
Our play-based learning approach inspires creativity, curiosity, and problem-solving, helping children develop social, emotional, and cognitive skills naturally.
Our Learning Approach
Communication
Providing an environment where children grow their confidence and learn to express themselves in a variety of situations.
Social & Emotional
Encourage children to develop an attitude of kindness, cooperation, courtesy and helpfulness towards others while developing self-confidence and independence.
Physical Development
Helping children develop their coordination, control and movement through a variety of fine and gross motor activities.
Expressive Arts
Enabling children to explore and play with a wide range of media and materials.
Learning Skills
Encouraging children to link sounds and letters and begin to read and write. Children are exposed to a wide range of reading materials to ignite their interest.
Mathematics
Helping children with their counting skills, understanding numbers and simple addition and subtraction problems.
We’d Love to Meet Your
Family
Reach out to learn more about our childcare and preschool programs.
Phone
6:00am to 6:00pm
(Monday to Friday)
Ages:
Ages 6 weeks to 12 years
Address
3743 Challenger Ave Roanoke, VA 24012
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What's Going on in our Google Reviews?
Recent Google Reviews
We believe in nurturing the whole child through play-based learning that develops social, emotional, physical, and cognitive skills.
At first we went and looked at Children's Castle but didn't like the Playground right next to a gas station with a small fence. We went elsewhere and to another daycare practically right across the street with bigger and nicer facilities. This other daycare had so much turnover we couldn't get any help potty training our son. We left and came to Children's Castle.
We couldn't have asked for a better place. The fence was a non issue since they had staff stationed throughout the playground and would not let anyone pickup their kids from the playground.
He had some behavioral problems we were scared about being kicked out. They worked with us to get us through a very rough period. During his time there we had 2 main teachers and they were amazing.
Unlike some other reviews that seemed a little biased, we occasionally got calls and mostly toward the end of his time there. Maybe once a week to talk to him over the phone. Then maybe once a month to come pick him up when the phone didn't help. We felt they were more than accommodating with us.
When he started Kindergarten we realized how much of an issue his behavior problems were. We ended up seeing a specialist doctor for our son who was fully aware of Children's Castle and said they are known to be more than accommodating with other children that can be difficult.
My only complaint would be that they were handling the issues a lot on their own other than a weekly phone call or monthly pickup. Which we thought was normal for children. We didn't realize that he was having daily issues and having to be pulled out of class to recover. We would have liked to have known about these before he started Kindergarten.
Great business and would recommend to anyone.
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Nurturing curiosity, building confidence, and creating a lifelong love of learning from day one.
Happy Monday Morning🌄! As I begin to get ready for the last day in this chapter of my life, I reflect back to the past 23 years. Children's Castle was incorporated in July of 2003, by my Father CB, my Grandmother Dee Dee, and myself. With my family celebrating it's 23rd year of incorporation, I begin to realize that number '23' is especially ironic and significant to me. I was 23 years old the day I opened the doors to our building and welcomed the first few children and families to our brand new center. The Castle has been home to my family all these years, allowing my dad to retire from US Airways, allowing my step mother, Cindy, to leave the hustle of the legal world and enjoy working part time, allowing my grandmother to fill her days and heart with the light and joy from the children she served lunch to everyday, and allowing me to support my family, and accomplish my goal of being able to raise and be with my children everyday, while still focusing on and building an impacting career. Now, 23 years later, the day has fittingly arrived in which I confidently entrust the center's leadership to my admin team, those that have committed much of their lives to growing this center beside me, and I proudly hand over the the keys to Children's Castle Early Learning Center, Inc. to Early Bird Education Group, a company that is ranked as the highest in early education nationwide. 🏰👑✨️
I am deeply grateful for every life that has touched these doors, filled these hallways, and given spirit to what began as a simple dream. As I transition into this new chapter of my life, I do so with a full heart, confident in the Castle’s bright future, continued growth, and enduring success. It has been a profound privilege to serve this community for these 23 years. It is by far the biggest complement to have a Company of this magnitude and status aquire Children's Castle Early Learning Center. I couldn't be more blessed to see this legacy continue operation as The Castle we all have known, with even more growth ahead, retaining and offering advancement to all of our staff that have committed their time, love, and days into building it's legacy. I am truly gracious to reach the milestone of retirement in what will forever be '23 years' to me!
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Let's talk about our last 20 years, 240 months, 62,400+ business hours... however it's broken down.., I've been blessed, thankful, and privileged to work with and to personally share the ups, downs, twist and turns of our lives, from professional to personal, the joys of motherhood and the heartshattering realities of death, the assurance of someone being one text or call away, and most importantly share the success of a business that has been tremendously impacted and built by the heart and soul she has poured into each and every day of these last 2 decades! HAPPY ☆T¤W¤E¤N¤T¤Y☆-20-☆ YEAR ANNIVERSARY TO JESSICA WEEKS, OUR JESS, THE JESS, AKA WEEKS, MY OTHER JW, THE SPARKLE IN OUR CROWN AND THE TOP OF OUR ROYAL LADDER!!! Thank you Jess for choosing to spend your professional life with me and the Castle, for offering your heart and soul in every hour you've spent building relationships and making the Castle the success it is. I am overwhelmingly grateful for your dedication ♡🏰👸👑♡ - J ... See MoreSee Less
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Ms. Jan’s Twee’s class has been growing butterflies and was able to release them for all to see! ❤️🦋 ... See MoreSee Less
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Big things happening this morning! 👩🎓🧑🎓🎓 ... See MoreSee Less
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There's ALWAYS fun to be had at The Castle!! 🏰 ... See MoreSee Less
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We have a super special announcement!!!! 📣 For all of our parents who have asked.. We would officially like to welcome Ms.Maryahna to the Children’s Castle family. Ms.Dia and baby are doing AMAZING! ❤️ ... See MoreSee Less
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Just a few of the amazing teachers we have here at the Castle! We truly wouldn’t be here without our staff. We want to thank each and every one of our teachers for their endless dedication to each and every child we have here! THANK YOU for all you do! You are truly shaping the future and making a difference ❤️
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Our kiddos may be dressed up today, but our teachers are the real hero’s everyday! ❤️🦸🏼♀️🦸🏾♀️🦸🏻♂️
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TEACHER'S: We SEE you and APPRECIATE you EVERY SINGLE DAY!!! Here's a THANK YOU and a reminder that YOU MATTER even during all the little moments you question if you do!!!♡🏰👑 - Ms J ... See MoreSee Less
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