Smart Start Early Learning Center

At Smart Start, we know every child is wonderfully unique! Each one comes to us with their own experiences, their own family dynamics, and their individual learning style. All of those pieces work together to shape how they grow, learn, and connect with the world around them!

We still have a few openings in some of our classes and we would love to partner with your family. At Smart Start, we tailor learning to each child—helping them discover, grow, and thrive in their own way!

🍎STEAP Class in Longview for 3 Years (2 Day Morning)
🍎STEAP Class in Toutle for 3-5 Years(2/4 Day Morning)
🍎Pre-K in Longview for 3-5 Years (3 Day Afternoon)

Visit https://smartstartelc.org/programs to learn more!

So excited for our first week of classes in Longview and to be back this week in Toutle 🎉 We hope you know we don’t take this job lightly – we promise to love your child, to cheer them on, to guide them, and to believe in them. Thank you for trusting us with such a precious gift — we can’t wait to see all the growth and memories this year will bring!

D E A R // Parents,

We love them too.

We know it’s taken you mountains of strength to lift your heavy feet to walk away from your baby while you leave them in our classroom. To thrust them into this new world of cohorts and competition, a world you feel they will have to navigate themselves without you beside them. But, please know, they won’t be alone, they are with us.

We love them too.

From their very first day, beaming with pride in their freshly ironed uniform, we fall a little bit in love with their wide eyed excitement and their timid, sweet charm, their need to tell us all about their family holiday to the coast and their subtle nod to the squeaky new shoes on their feet.
Then as the weeks roll by, we fall a lot in love with their cheeky sense of humour and how they stutter when they get excited. We grow in awe of their gentleness to others and their wishes to make big changes with such small feet.

We love them too.

We get to know when they need their puffer, when they are about to burst into tears, when they need just a second longer to get their thoughts out.

We hug them in tight when they are sad, laugh along side them then they make a mistake, gloat with them when they nail a new skill and push them that bit harder when they aren’t believing in themselves.

We love them too.

We promise to keep them happy and safe, to build them up when they feel like they aren’t good enough, encourage them when we know they can do it and teach them all the new things.

But, please know, while we love them too, you will always be their number one. You are the ones they write about in their story books, the ones they paint pictures of, the ones they role play during free time. You are the ones they pray for in prayer time, the ones they talk about with their new friends and the ones they are counting down to see at 3pm.

So, trust us to guide, support and educate your babies and trust us to love them too.

Love teachers from all over the world.

❤️

Written by me, Little Jemmings - mum and teacher. Big love to all my international followers for the new school year x

Meet our lead teachers for this school year—along with their families, who are such a big part of who they are and the heart they bring into the classroom💛 In the captions, you’ll get to learn a little more about them and even find out who your teacher will be🎉

It’s Graduation Week and Smart Start ELC has some very special graduates to honor!

Elle Is a 2025 Graduate from RA Long!
This fall Elle will attend Mount Marty University in South Dakota! She has been awarded an academic and athletic scholarship to play women's soccer!

Elle your sweet, kind soul will shine through always! Whenever I see you around town your smile simply lights up a room! We are cheering for you all the way! Go Lancers & Congrats!

It’s GRADUATION week and Smart Start ELC has some very special graduates we are excited to honor!

Lukas, a 2025 graduate, is planning on enrolling at LCC in the fall and then he plans to join the IBEW as an electrician.

Lukas was the sweetest, kindest little guy as a student at Smart Start! Loved by all, I know he will be an excellent electrician! We are so proud of you Lukas! We are cheering you on all the way!