• Owner: Catrina Kaupat
• Phone:
• Email: catrinakaupat@yahoo.com
• Neighborhood: Berkeley/Albany border
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• License #: 013421301
• Capacity: 6
• Website:
• Bilingual: German
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We would like to highly recommend Kita on Kains. Catrina took care of our 2-year-old son for several months. She is one of those caregivers who truly has a gift for working with small children. Her home is full of love, music, laughter, and calm. Her background in child development, dance, and languages and her naturally creative and soothing energy help her create an enriching experience for the kids. She is endlessly patient and helps them positively solve conflicts and explore new activities. She balances safe routines with curiosity and humor. Our son loves Catrina, and so do we! Any kid would be lucky to spend his or her days learning and playing at Kita on Kains.

Amazing German daycare

I would like to recommend the licensed daycare of my former nanny Catrina, Catrina is an experienced nanny/preschool teacher with a background in teaching dance and preschool. She is bilingual in German and English. She took care of my 5 and 3 year old daughters for 7 months while I worked full- time. She talked exclusively in German to them. She took them on outings to the park and to places like Habitot. She let them do crafts and baking at home. She placed an emphasis on singing and making music together which is her passion. She is educated in singing and making music. She also prepared organic and wholesome snacks. With her love for detail and her personal warmth she created a warm and nuturing environment in which my kids could thrive.

Join our awesome German-language day care

About a year ago, we found our ideal childcare situation: a nanny share with a German-speaking caregiver, since Papa is a first-generation German-American. Now, Catrina is expanding to offer a toddler/preschool home day care at her home in Albany, called KiTa on Kains, and has immediate openings.

We very much support this shift, and we can't speak highly enough of the care that Catrina has provided for our now 16-month-old over the past year. Catrina studied dance and education in Germany and studied Early Childhood Education at Merritt College. Since immigrating to the US in 2002, she has worked in several preschools, dance and German language schools in the Bay Area, including Shan Yee Poon Ballet School, the Bay Area Kinderstube and the German School of San Francisco.

Anneliese's first words have included ''wow wow'' (German for ''bow wow'') and ''Baum'' (German for ''tree'') along with ''nein nein noooo'' when she really doesn't like something. They spend lots of time outdoors in the garden and I think Anneliese prefers Catrina's cooking to ours. We invite you to check out the website at www.kitaonkains.com and join this growing community of happy, German-speaking children! I am glad to provide further information offline as well.
Shannon

I would like to recommend the licensed daycare of my former nanny Catrina, Catrina is an experienced nanny/preschool teacher with a background in teaching dance and preschool. She speaks German and English. She took care of my 5 and 3 year old daughters for 7 months while I worked full-time. She spoke exclusively in German with my kids. She took them on outings to the park and to places like Habitot. She let them do crafts and baking at home. She placed an emphasis on singing and making music together which is her passion. She is educated in singing and making music. She also prepared organic and wholesome snacks. With her love for detail and her personal warmth she created a warm and nuturing environment in which my kids could thrive.