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Monte Tavor offers an emergent curriculum where children paint, draw, build, read, write, sing, dress up, learn letters and numbers, and join fun and educational field trips. Daily activities include music, dance, discovery, dramatic play, blocks, art, library time, sand and water play, table toys, cooking, science, running and other physical activities, exercise, and outdoor free play. The program includes a Spanish Immersion program and a forest program that uses trails as outdoor classrooms, with covered spaces available in bad weather.
• Ages: 0–11 years old
• Schedule: Weekday programs with class options between 7:00 AM and 6:00 PM
Monte Tavor offers infant, toddler, and preschooler programs for ages 0–5 years at each listed location, and enrollment is open for summer camps where families may enroll in any week for children ages 3 to 5th grade. In the forest program, students 2 years old and older are transported from the Laguna site to the forest school daily, where they may paint, draw, build, read, write, sing, dress up, and learn letters and numbers. 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. Classrooms for older children have designated areas for dramatic play, blocks, art, library, sand and water, table toys, cooking, science, and outdoor free play, and the program’s extensive outdoors is used for running and physical activities, with rocking and swing equipment for older age groups and innovative indoor-outdoor crawling areas for younger children. Daily meals are provided for children 13 months and up.
The program was founded in the fall of 1994 in Oakland, CA, and a “fast-forward 28 years” description is stated. Monte Tavor states that all children enrolled into the program can speak or understand Spanish by the time they graduate and that it believes in multilingual and multicultural environments for families, as well as the ongoing training of teachers and emergent discoveries of children’s learning abilities. Its mission statement says that every child is unique, that success and growth come from encouragement and praise, and that teachers focus on building each child’s self-esteem and confidence through positive feedback and rewards, nurturing their natural strengths and encouraging their natural curiosity. Monte Tavor appeared on The Balancing Act Local Edition: San Francisco in a segment on early education.
Last updated June 21, 2026.
• Ages: 0–11 years old
• Schedule: Weekday programs with class options between 7:00 AM and 6:00 PM
Monte Tavor offers infant, toddler, and preschooler programs for ages 0–5 years at each listed location, and enrollment is open for summer camps where families may enroll in any week for children ages 3 to 5th grade. In the forest program, students 2 years old and older are transported from the Laguna site to the forest school daily, where they may paint, draw, build, read, write, sing, dress up, and learn letters and numbers. 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. Classrooms for older children have designated areas for dramatic play, blocks, art, library, sand and water, table toys, cooking, science, and outdoor free play, and the program’s extensive outdoors is used for running and physical activities, with rocking and swing equipment for older age groups and innovative indoor-outdoor crawling areas for younger children. Daily meals are provided for children 13 months and up.
The program was founded in the fall of 1994 in Oakland, CA, and a “fast-forward 28 years” description is stated. Monte Tavor states that all children enrolled into the program can speak or understand Spanish by the time they graduate and that it believes in multilingual and multicultural environments for families, as well as the ongoing training of teachers and emergent discoveries of children’s learning abilities. Its mission statement says that every child is unique, that success and growth come from encouragement and praise, and that teachers focus on building each child’s self-esteem and confidence through positive feedback and rewards, nurturing their natural strengths and encouraging their natural curiosity. Monte Tavor appeared on The Balancing Act Local Edition: San Francisco in a segment on early education.
Last updated June 21, 2026.
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