Your child, growing up in Portuguese. Portuguese immersion daycare · Infants through preschool · Silver Spring, Maryland

10309 New Hampshire Ave, Silver Spring, MD 20903

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Somewhere in your family, someone still speaks only Portuguese. Grandparents on video calls. Aunts and uncles across the table at every gathering. Cousins your child hasn't met yet. Language is the bridge that keeps them all within reach, and every word learned at Sorrisinho is one more block in that bridge.

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About Us

A home where Portuguese belongs

Every parent with older kids has the same story: by kindergarten, you ask in Portuguese and the answer comes back in English. Sorrisinho exists to change that, in exactly the years when a child picks up a language most easily, and in exactly the hours of the day when parents need the most help.

We hire native Portuguese speakers from the same communities as the families we serve. The music, the stories, and the traditions we share in the classroom will connect our children to their extended family's cultures and the lusophone world more broadly. Most of all, in a room where Portuguese is the ordinary language rather than the strange one, children gain more than vocabulary: friends who speak it, and the confidence to use it with their own families.

  • Imersão · Immersion

    Every song, every lesson, even the whose-turn-is-it-next disputes — all of it in Portuguese, all day.

  • Pertencimento · Belonging

    A community that connects your family here to your family there — from Brazil to Portugal, Angola to Mozambique.

  • Cuidado · Care

    We hold ourselves to standards well above licensing minimums and invest heavily in teacher training and retention, because the best thing we can do for your child is keep the same teacher in the room all year long.

Our Program

Infants through preschool

Sorrisinho is Montgomery County's first and only Portuguese language immersion daycare center. We serve children from infancy through preschool age, with a curriculum built for each age group and Portuguese as the guiding thread throughout.

  • Infants

    6 weeks – 18 months

    • Portuguese lullabies and songs
    • Care routines with rich language input
    • Cultural sensory exploration

  • Toddlers

    18 months – 2 years

    • Guided play in Portuguese
    • Brazilian art and music
    • Vocabulary development

  • Preschool

    2 – 5 years

    • Bilingual pre-literacy skills
    • Cultural thematic projects
    • Kindergarten readiness

† Age groups and capacity are subject to Maryland child care licensing. Final curriculum details will be confirmed prior to opening.

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