Red Caboose Child Care Center, Inc.

05/29/2026

05/15/2026

🎉 Exciting News from Red Caboose! 🎉

We are happy to announce that we are now offering MONDAY ONLY care for children enrolled in MMSD 4K! 🍎📚

Need care on Mondays? We’ve got you covered with a safe, fun, and engaging place for your child from ⏰ 7:30 AM – 5:30 PM!
✨ Tuition also includes:
🥞 Breakfast
🍎 Lunch
🥨 Afternoon Snack

This is a great option for families looking for reliable Monday care without the stress of finding separate arrangements. Spots may be limited, so reach out today for more information! ❤️

05/11/2026

Just in case you missed the May calendar in your email, or the reminder signs posted on classroom doors, please remember that The Child Care Center is closed today for our final two sessions of Pyramid Model Training with Amy Alt and the City of Madison Accreditation.

Thank you all for your support and understanding throughout this year! These trainings and learning opportunities have made a tremendous impact on our classrooms, staff, and the children we serve each day. We are grateful for the opportunity to continue growing and strengthening our program together!

04/17/2026

Weather Update! Due to severe weather Red Caboose Child Care Center, Inc. will be closing the center today, Friday, April 17 at 2:30pm. All After School Programming at Lapham and Marquette will be cancelled.

Red Caboose Child Care Center, Inc, follows MMSD for weather related closures.

03/15/2026

❄️ Snow Day Update from Red Caboose!

Red Caboose was originally scheduled to be closed tomorrow, Monday, March 16th, 2026 for our staff Professional Development Day. However, with MMSD closing due to the winter weather, Red Caboose will now be fully closed for the day — including all After School Programs and staff PD.
Everyone will get a true snow day! ❄️
Stay warm, stay safe, and we will see everyone back on Tuesday! 🚂

01/29/2026

Do you have a passion for working with children and being part of a fun, supportive team? We’d love to meet you! 💛

✨ Now hiring:
👶 Infant Room Teacher
🧸 1-Year-Old Teachers
🎨 2-Year-Old Teacher
📚 3-Year-Old Teachers
🌈 Mixed Age Group Teacher
⏰ Afternoon Float Staff

✔️ Great pay
✔️ Benefits
✔️ Positive, team-focused environment

If you’re caring, reliable, and ready to make a difference every day, this could be the perfect fit!

📧 Send your resume or questions to:
[email protected]

📞 Or call us at 608-256-1566
🌐 www.redcaboosechildcare.org

✨ Please share or tag someone who’d be a great addition to our team! ✨

01/29/2026

✨ We’re ENROLLING NOW! ✨
Red Caboose Childcare is currently enrolling full-time children ages 2 years through 4K. We are actively touring our classrooms and would love to meet your family! 🚂❤️
📩 [email protected]

📞 608-256-1566

01/22/2026

Red Caboose Community- We will be closed Friday, January 22, 2026, due to the Extreme Cold Warning. Please stay safe and warm this weekend and we will see you on Monday.

11/05/2025

Please be aware our internet and phones are down. If you need anything please email Lindsey or Lisa!

[email protected]
[email protected]

11/05/2025

The demolition began today at 654 Williamson Street… and our hearts are feeling it. 💛

For 50 years, that little building held so much of who we are. We’re grieving the loss of a place filled with firsts:
✨ First steps, first words, first friends
🧸 First scraped knees and first hugs
🍼 So. Many. Diapers.
A place where kids could be exactly who they were — free, silly, curious, loud, imaginative, tender, themselves.
A place full of laughter, tears, learning, growth, and community.

We have memories tucked into every corner:

🎶 Gary’s record player rolling out onto the playground
📚 Sue’s after-lunch stories — still some of our favorites
🤗 Janet’s warm hugs at just the right moments
🧡 Cheryl’s warm and gentle guidance with our youngest children — helping us feel okay as we left our most precious treasures in her care
🐸 Denice’s tadpoles in the sensory bin
🛝 Storytime in the gazebo with Leigh
💦 Flooding the playground (because of course we did)
🍅 Max’s tomato soup — invented in that tiny kitchen
🌟 And Wendy, whose heart, leadership, and love shaped Red Caboose into what it is today — a standard of high-quality care that still lives on in our new center and across Madison

We grew up there — the children and the adults.

We loved ourselves right out of that building… and it was love that held it together, all the way until the day we moved out.

Who knew four walls could hold so much for so many?

Thank you, 654 W***y Street, for 50 years of magic. 💛
You will always be part of us.