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Monte Tavor includes activities such as painting, drawing, building, reading, writing, singing, dressing up, and learning letters and numbers. Children take part in fun and educational field trips, a dance event, and running and other physical activities with exercise, music, dance, and discovery. The program also includes dramatic play, blocks, art, library time, sand and water play, table toys, cooking, science, and outdoor free play.
• Ages: 0–5 years old
• Schedule: Monday–Friday, 7am–6pm
Monte Tavor serves infants, toddlers, and preschoolers ages 0–5 years at all of its locations and offers a Spanish Immersion program in multilingual and multicultural environments for families. The program uses an emergent curriculum based on children’s interests, teacher observations, and theoretical implications, with a major emphasis on language, visual and performing arts, science, and exploration, and a focus on children’s social, emotional, cognitive, and physical development. Preschool programs are for children 2 years of age and older, and students 2 years old and older are transported from the Laguna site to Monte Tavor’s Forest Program, which uses trails as outdoor classrooms as an add-on to the existing outdoor program. The outdoor experience is described as inviting and able to safely accommodate children’s freedom of expression through exercise, music, dance, and discovery, with age-appropriate environments and accessible materials for all age groups.
The program’s indoor and outdoor spaces include extensive outdoor areas used for running and physical activities, outdoor rocking and swing equipment for older age groups, and innovative indoor-outdoor crawling areas for younger children. Classrooms for older children have designated areas for dramatic play, blocks, art, library, sand and water, table toys, cooking, science, and outdoor free play. Infant rooms include sensory soft toys, musical boxes, musical instruments, and books, while toddler areas include soft play areas, balls with different textures, dolls, stuffed animals, blankets, and cars.
Monte Tavor was founded in the fall of 1994 in Oakland, CA. Its mission states that every child is unique and that success and growth come from encouragement and praise, with teachers focusing on building each child’s self-esteem and confidence through positive feedback and rewards, nurturing their natural strengths, and encouraging their natural curiosity about the world. Monte Tavor was featured on The Balancing Act Local Edition: San Francisco in a segment on early education.
Last updated March 22, 2026.
• Ages: 0–5 years old
• Schedule: Monday–Friday, 7am–6pm
Monte Tavor serves infants, toddlers, and preschoolers ages 0–5 years at all of its locations and offers a Spanish Immersion program in multilingual and multicultural environments for families. The program uses an emergent curriculum based on children’s interests, teacher observations, and theoretical implications, with a major emphasis on language, visual and performing arts, science, and exploration, and a focus on children’s social, emotional, cognitive, and physical development. Preschool programs are for children 2 years of age and older, and students 2 years old and older are transported from the Laguna site to Monte Tavor’s Forest Program, which uses trails as outdoor classrooms as an add-on to the existing outdoor program. The outdoor experience is described as inviting and able to safely accommodate children’s freedom of expression through exercise, music, dance, and discovery, with age-appropriate environments and accessible materials for all age groups.
The program’s indoor and outdoor spaces include extensive outdoor areas used for running and physical activities, outdoor rocking and swing equipment for older age groups, and innovative indoor-outdoor crawling areas for younger children. Classrooms for older children have designated areas for dramatic play, blocks, art, library, sand and water, table toys, cooking, science, and outdoor free play. Infant rooms include sensory soft toys, musical boxes, musical instruments, and books, while toddler areas include soft play areas, balls with different textures, dolls, stuffed animals, blankets, and cars.
Monte Tavor was founded in the fall of 1994 in Oakland, CA. Its mission states that every child is unique and that success and growth come from encouragement and praise, with teachers focusing on building each child’s self-esteem and confidence through positive feedback and rewards, nurturing their natural strengths, and encouraging their natural curiosity about the world. Monte Tavor was featured on The Balancing Act Local Edition: San Francisco in a segment on early education.
Last updated March 22, 2026.
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