This research study attempts to shed light upon the way early childhood education schools and their teachers, both in public and in private sector, responded to the COVID-19 lockdown conditions. Specifically, our study explores: a) the way sixteen early childhood education schools in Athens (8 public and 8 private) and their teachers adapted their programmes in order to continue to provide education to their students during the first lockdown (Spring 2020) using different models of home-schooling and b) the views of some of their teachers about the teaching practices they followed at their schools, the teaching formats that their schools gave priority to, and the challenges they faced.