The Little Nest is Located in Highland Park, California, a thriving community rich in art, small local businesses and cultural history. Convenient freeway access to the 2, 134, 210 and 110 are within 3 miles or less.<br/><br/>The Little Nest is a fulfillment of a long time dream to build a space that invites children to freely learn and play. Our home-based school features an indoor and an outdoor classroom, deck, playground, sandbox and a vegetable garden.<br/><br/><strong>Indoor Classroom</strong><br/><br/>We have created clean, organized areas for Practical Life, Sensorial, Mathematics, Language, Culture, the Sciences (Botany, Geography, etc), Music and Movement fit for a homeschool that is inspired by Montessori. <br/><br/>When the children are ready for real food preparation, we welcome them into our open-spaced style kitchen/living room/dining room. The work area is a low wooden table where the children can engage in simple practical life activities such as shelling peas, mashing steamed vegetables, slicing fruits progressing into more complex, hands-on activities such as making bread from scratch or cooking healthy chicken soup for cold days. <br/><br/><strong>Outdoor Classroom</strong><br/><br/>As the indoors, the outdoor classroom provides lots of opportunities to develop independence and self-direction. Outdoors hold water and sand activities, art, painting, crafts, woodwork and building projects. There are a number of prepared multi-process jobs that build the children’s sense of order and focus. We enjoy much of the beautiful California weather outside and children are free to move between the indoor and outdoor spaces throughout the work cycle. <br/><br/><strong>Organic Garden</strong><br/><br/>What better way to learn about vegetables and herbs than being able to plant, harvest, prepare and taste the produce? The garden offers experiential lessons in patience, community, health and nature and more. <br/><br/><strong>Playground</strong><br/><br/>Children enjoy the wooden play structure with a trapeze swing bar, monkey bars, climbing rope ladder, steering wheels, slide, and picnic/story time area. We also have a rock climbing and dome structure in the play area that helps develop limb strength, balance and agility. There is also a small spot with bongos, musical rainwheel and a deep Babaloo drum. <br/><br/><strong>Deck</strong><br/><br/>Our deck has custom-made shelves that hold individual containers for blocks, open- ended materials, puzzles, legos, and other manipulatives. <br/><br/><strong>The Sandbox aka "the beach, space, middle Earth, etc"</strong><br/><br/>The children's mini world where their imaginations take them to exciting places as they engage in sensory play, community building, spatial skill development and fine motor skill practice.