nido Program details
Ages 3 months to 18 months
Class Size: Maximum of 12 children
Adult/Child Ratio: 1:4
Monday through Thursday 8:15 am to 5:15 pm
Fridays 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
Limited Half Day Spaces Available: Monday - Thursday 8:15am to 12:30pm
Toddler Program details
Ages 18 months to 3 years
Class Size: Maximum of 12 children
Adult/Child Ratio: 1:6
Monday through Thursday 8:15 am to 5:15 pm
Fridays 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
Limited Half Day Spaces Available: Monday - Thursday 8:15am to 12:30pm
Le Nido curriculum
Le Nido at Studio Montessori is a prepared environment for children ages 3 months to 18 months. The Toddler environment supports children’s development from 18 months to 3 years. The first three years of life are the most fundamental in the development of human beings and their potential. It is a period when the core of personality, social skills, and human values are developed. An understanding of the child's development allows Montessori environments to meet the needs of the infant and foster a sense of belonging and independence and English language acquisition enables children to feel able and capable.
The environment supports and nurtures children as they learn more about their world; it’s a place where children are respected for who they are and are given the freedom to explore their interests and develop at their own pace. The environment, filled with soft furnishings and cozy rugs, child-sized furniture, accessible shelving, and carefully prepared materials, is designed to encourage independence, movement, and serves as a calm and inviting space for babies to explore.
Our curriculum goals are that around the age of 2.5 years, the child has sufficiently developed language skills to express themselves, physically independent enough to dress, undress, and toilet independently, the psychological maturity to concentrate while working on an activity with several sequenced steps, control disruptive impulses, and respond with prosocial behaviors in most social situations. Specific curriculum elements include toilet learning, snack preparation, dressing and undressing, psychomotor development (gross and fine motor), artistic expression, song and music, language and literature, as well as social emotional skills development.
