Tour · Two locations

The room with
the cots in it. The one thing a daylight daycare cannot show you.

Any centre can photograph a bright classroom at ten in the morning. A quiet room with the lights low and the cots made is a different kind of proof, and it is the room parents on a night shift actually want to see before they leave anyone there.

01Overnight rooms

Where children sleep.

Not a corner of the day room with the lights off. A room, with cots, that is set up for sleeping and staffed by somebody who stays awake in it.

Children really do sleep here. Both buildings are licensed for evening and nighttime care — it is on both certificates, not just one.

Somebody stays awake in the room while the children sleep. That is the law in Arizona for every licensed centre, and it is the part worth knowing at two in the morning.

Staffing does not thin out overnight either. The same number of caregivers covers the same number of children at 2am as at 2pm.

The rooms

Come see a classroom in action

Art on the walls, centres set up, teachers who know every child by name. Ask at either desk and someone will walk you through — morning, afternoon, or whatever hour your family actually keeps.

The indoor room at Nana’s, with low tables, wall displays and open floor space.
The indoor room. More photos →
A classroom at Nana’s set up for its age group Another of the classrooms, tables ready for the morning
On video

Nana’s Virtual Tour

The rooms, by name: Room 1 — Infants, Rooms 2, 3 and 4, the Main Room and Legacy Main Hall, the front lobby, and Playgrounds 1 and 2.

The infant room: white cribs along the wall and soft mats on the floor.
Room 1 — the infant room.
02The rooms

One room per age group, day and night.

Toggle between the daytime and overnight views. The interesting thing about the overnight view is what doesn’t change — Arizona does not relax staffing for sleeping children, so the night room is staffed like the day room.

The sun is the caregiver. The dots are the children they look after.

Arizona sets a limit on how many children one caregiver can look after, and it gets tighter the younger the child: five infants, six at one year, eight at two, thirteen at three, fifteen for pre-kinder and twenty for school age. Tap Show overnight and nothing changes — the night room is staffed like the day room.

03Both buildings

Peoria and Northern.

Nanas Preschools — 2 great locations in the Valley!

Two licensed centres a few minutes apart. They are not identical, and the differences between them are exactly what a tour should be for.

Peoria location

10046 N 43rd Ave

Glendale, AZ 85302
ADHS licence CDC-14018 · the larger of the two buildings

Cross streets 43rd Avenue and West Peoria Avenue, next to Great Skate. We call it the Peoria building after the avenue — it is in Glendale, not the city of Peoria.

Licensed for 150 children. Open through the night, Monday to Saturday; closed Sundays.

(623) 931-5015 Directions & details
Northern location

Nana’s Place Preschool and Childcare — open 24 hours, 7 days a week.

4910 W Northern Ave

Glendale, AZ 85301
ADHS licence CDC-12417 · the smaller of the two buildings

Cross streets 49th Avenue and Northern Avenue. This is the building whose published city has appeared three different ways across the site and at least one directory.

Licensed for 59 children. Open through the night, seven days a week.

(623) 435-2211 Directions & details

The two buildings are drawn above with their licence numbers, both public record on AZ Care Check. Peoria is licensed for 150 children and Northern for 59 — one dot per licensed seat, because “150 seats” is an abstraction and a hundred and fifty dots is not.

04Visiting

Come at the hour you’d actually use.

A ten-in-the-morning tour tells a night-shift parent almost nothing. Ask to see it at the hour you would be dropping off.

Ask to see

The sleeping room, made up

Cots, bedding, where a comfort item from home goes, and how dark the room actually gets. Ask who is awake in it and where they sit.

Ask about

Drop-off at an odd hour

How an arrival outside ordinary daytime hours works in practice — which door, who meets you, and what happens if your shift runs long. drop-off and pick-up run around the clock — four in the morning is an ordinary hour here

Ask for

The licence, on the wall

Both buildings are licensed centres and the certificate is posted. It carries the capacity, the age range and the service classifications — which is precisely why this website is waiting on it.

Book a walkthrough.

Call either building and ask for a tour at the hour you would actually be using it. That is the tour worth taking.

Peoria · (623) 931-5015 Northern · (623) 435-2211