Montessori Infant Program in Austin – Nido Community
(6 weeks - 17 months)
Nurturing Foundation for a World of Possibilities
At Town & Country Montessori in South Austin, our Nido (nest) Program offers a loving, caring, and nurturing environment designed for our youngest explorers, from 6 weeks to 17 months, in Austin, Texas. This is a time of rapid growth and discovery, when a child’s earliest experiences shape and form the foundation for a lifelong journey of learning.
The best way to understand Montessori is to see it in action.
Nurturing the Whole Child
At our Montessori school in Austin, the Nido program embraces activities that support the development of fine and gross motor skills, sensory exploration, texture, early black and white learning materials, language, and early mathematical and pattern recognition skills, which are all essential to building connections with the world around the child.
Confidence Through Movement
Our safe, open environment is designed for freedom of movement, allowing your child to develop coordination and motor skills at their own pace. This is a hallmark of the best Montessori schools.
Emotional & Social Development
Consistent, loving caregivers help infants build relationships and security. Gentle interactions and predictable routines lay the foundation for independence and confidence.
The Joy of Communication
Our caregivers engage in rich, continuous conversation, read aloud, and sing songs. We introduce sign language to help your child express their needs. We also take walks and engage with the outside environment.
Sensory & Cognitive Exploration
Carefully chosen Montessori materials invite your infant to explore through sight, sound, and touch. These purposeful experiences nurture innate curiosity and form the essential neural pathways for brain development.
Why our Montessori Nido Program is the Right Choice for Your Child?
Our Montessori Infant Program in Austin is thoughtfully designed and prepared to nurture the first human instincts: to feel warmth, bond, and the innate need for growth. Every part of our environment is carefully designed to encourage exploration and independence at each child’s unique developmental stage.
We honor and respect each child’s in-home routines while gently supporting their transition into the school community. Our experienced caregivers work closely with families, building partnerships with each milestone along the way, paving the path to the next phase of the journey.
Conveniently located for families in South Lamar, Zilker, Barton Hills, and Westgate, our Montessori infant daycare is led by experienced, long-standing caregivers who specialize in the Absorbent Mind phase of development.
Our Nurturing Montessori Infant Environment
With our experienced, knowledgeable, caring, and long-standing caregivers, our Nido community offers a blend of traditional Montessori principles and a modern understanding of the child’s developmental stages. Each child is guided toward new milestones such as making connections, discovering sounds that they eventually recognize as words as a means of communication, enjoying music as part of life, and engaging with many other sensory, cognitive, and bilingual environments.
Gentle Transition
A gentle, warm, predictable environment and familiar routines helps infants feel safe as they adjust from home into our Nido community, building a warm bond with their caregivers.
Milestones
From grasping and rolling to crawling and walking, each new milestone is supported in a calm and nurturing environment, where each child can practice at their own pace.
Honoring Each Unique Child
Each infant is recognized for their uniqueness, with loving caregivers observing their individual needs and natural rhythms, gently guiding their development with joy.
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Building Confidence & Independence
A child’s first means of communication—from body language to a cry—is met with gentle and understanding responses from our caregivers. By responding, offering vocabulary, and acknowledging their attempts to communicate, we help your child grow from expressing a need through crying to using sounds and words. This process cultivates a strong sense of confidence and the first foundations of independence.
First Steps to Independence
As infants begin to move and reach for materials, they experience the joy of doing things for themselves. These early moments nurture inner confidence and independence.
Freedom to Develop and Explore
We believe freedom of movement is the foundation for all development. Our infant environment is thoughtfully prepared to support gross motor development and fine motor coordination through activities that meet their natural drive to explore. With gentle guidance and love, curiosity becomes the spark for learning.
Movement as Learning
Our nurturing environment allows each infant to roll, crawl, and pull up freely, strengthening muscles and coordination through joyful movement.
Following their Curiosity
Montessori materials are offered in response to each child’s interests, inviting them to reach, grasp, and explore what naturally calls their attention.
Exploration that Sparks Curiosity
As infants explore with objects, textures, and their environment, their natural curiosity becomes the starting point for early problem-solving.
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Developing Communication in the Infant Community
From a familiar face to a smile, a babble to a word, every child has an innate need to connect and communicate. Our caregivers mindfully encourage developing language from the very beginning. Through rich vocabulary, reading, singing, and conversation, we help your child recognize sounds and connect them to words and simple sentences and discover that words have meaning. We also introduce Spanish and baby sign language as a bridge to spoken words to help them communicate their needs before they can speak.
Baby Signs & Spanish
Gentle sign language and early Spanish lessons give infants a means of communication to express their needs and understand others, even before verbal speech fully emerges.
Joy in Being Heard
When caregivers carefully and attentively pause, listen, and respond, infants learn that their sounds, expressions, and words carry meaning, understanding the beauty of language
Cognitive Power of Music in our Montessori Nido Program
Life begins with rhythm and sound, from the steady beat heard at the very inception of a baby ready to be born to the soothing sounds of the womb. In our Nido environment, music is another form of communication. We carefully select our music for every part of your baby's day—from soothing lullabies for naptime to nature sounds and rhythmic tunes for playtime. These experiences support auditory development, encourage body movement, and provide a layer of rich sensory input.
Movement & Music
Swaying, clapping, and tiny dances to music help infants coordinate body movement while enjoying a rich sensory musical experience.
Partnering Together in Your Child’s Early Development
Our experienced and knowledgeable caregivers will guide and nurture your child each day with the utmost attention to their home schedule and routines, developmental needs, and growth every step of the way.
Growing Together, Step by Step
By working closely with families at every stage, we ensure each child’s developmental needs are supported and celebrated.
Transition to the Montessori Toddler Community
As infants grow into confident walkers and begin developing language, they naturally prepare for the next stage of Montessori learning: the Toddler Community (ages 18 months–3 years).
→ Explore our Montessori Toddler Community
“The most important period of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from birth to the age of six.”
— Dr. Maria Montessori
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Frequently Asked Questions
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Our Nido program serves infants from 6 weeks to 17 months in a prepared Montessori environment designed for early development.
This stage is one of the most important periods of development, when infants begin building movement, language, and sensory awareness through exploration in a nurturing environment.
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Getting started is simple. Reach out through our contact form or schedule a call—we’ll walk you through the next steps and answer any questions along the way.
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While many look for "infant daycare near me," a Montessori infant program focuses on freedom of movement and a carefully prepared environment. Infants explore, develop coordination, and interact with Montessori materials designed to support early development.
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Our caregivers work closely with families to honor each infant’s home routines for feeding, sleeping, and care. As infants grow, they naturally begin to develop gentle rhythms throughout the day within the classroom environment.
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The Montessori Nido environment supports development through:
freedom of movement
sensory exploration
language-rich interactions
gentle caregiving routines
materials designed for infants
These experiences help infants develop confidence, coordination, communication, and independence.
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Yes. Families are welcome to schedule a tour of our Montessori Nido classroom in Austin to learn more about the environment and how we support early development for infants ages 6 weeks to 17 months.
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Located at 3801 Keats Drive in South Lamar (78704), Town & Country Children’s Montessori provides infant, toddler, preschool, and kindergarten programs for families in Bouldin Creek, Sunset Valley, and Downtown Austin.