Circle of friends
Our Staff
Elena Kuznetsova
Apryl Davis
Yevgeniya Pogulskaya
Elena works on improving pronunciation and helps with speech and language development. She has a degree in a speech therapy and Russian Language education from Moscow State Pedagogical University. While still in Russia, she worked as a speech therapist in Burdenko Neurosurgery Institute and I.M. Sechenov Moscow Medical Academy. After she moved to US in 2001, she started working as a private therapist with children with various types of speech and language disorders. She also teaches Russian Language classes to children of age two and older.
Elena is a mother of two daughters.
Apryl hosts English story time at our daycare. She reads wide variety of interactive stories with themes from counting to nutrition.
She has a degree in Animation and Multimedia from Art Institute of Seattle, but found a true passion in working with kids and then became Youth Director at Bothell United Methodist Church.
Apryl is a mother of two boys.
Yevgeniya is a music teacher at our daycare. She finished University of Arts of Saint-Petersburg, Russia. Worked as a Academic choir conductor as well as music school piano teacher. Right now combining daycare music classes, private piano and singing classes.
Yevgeniya is a mother of two kids.
Sasha Zykova
Sasha has Master's Degree in Education from Moscow University for Humanities, has over 20 years of teaching experience in Russia and the United States.
Currently works at Mountlake Terrace Library as a Children's Librarian, presents weekly programs for children of all ages in English and Russian.
Sasha has two daughters.
Ludmila Matviychuk
Ludmila is an art teacher at our daycare. She graduated from Lvov State Institute of Decorative and Applied arts, Ukraine and after that finished Lvov National Academy of Art, Ukraine. After she moved to US in 2009, she started teaching drawing. Ludmila enjoys decorative painting of walls and ceilings, as well as playing violin.