What is the NatureTot System?
Full course training and a unique set of tools to help Montessori Casa educators give the child access to real nature within the morning work period.
Educator Training
NatureTot System Masterclass
Learn to implement, encourage, and maintain the child experience through a comprehensive online course. Gain confidence in cultivating a nature-connected classroom while we guide you in the daily step-by-step instructions.
- 20+ daily lessons
- What materials to use and when
- Step-by-step Instruction
- Learn alongside the children
- Easy to customize for your prepared environment
Cabinets
Attractive cabinets create order for child and guide, inspiring the child in activity. The structured cabinets provide best conditions for each stage of growth, from seed to plant to compost.
- Appropriately sized for children
- Beautiful & natural materials
- Harmonious with the prepared environment
Curated Materials
Extremely durable materials have been carefully selected for natural material, beauty and function. The careful attention to materials allows the child to work purposefully and independently.
- Practical tools for a life cycle
- Perfectly sized for the child
- Durable and beautiful.
Purposeful Exercises
Detailed descriptions of 20+ practical life extensions written, reviewed, and tested by skilled AMI Montessori educators. The comprehensive set of exercises makes growing, harvesting, and worm care simple, easy and fun!
- Extremely interesting to the child
- Development of character
- A field of practice: practical to abstract
- Extremely interesting to the child
Cabinets for Every Stage of MicroGreen Growth
Thoughtfully designed cabinets that fit beautifully into your Montessori classroom.
Planting
Harvesting
Composting
Cabinet #1 Planting
This is where little hands play the role of nature's helpers. Inside, a mix of worm castings and soil form a perfect cradle for tiny seeds. It's a vibrant activity center where children engage in simple tasks – folding, spooning, measuring, and watering. This cabinet isn't just for soil and water activities; it's a gateway to the wonders of life, where every scoop of soil and every drop of water creates that first sense of connection with nature in the child.
- Stainless steel countertops
- Extra storage space on the backside
- Water resistant finishes
Order aids child and adult.
Intimacy with seeds, plants and soil.
Developing life skills.
Cabinet #2 Harvesting
Immerse the children in nature with the most colorful of the three cabinets. The heart of our little green world brings the micro-green seeds to their grand finale, where harvest is celebrated. It's a stage filled with joy and learning, where children engage in tasks like watering, misting, cutting, pouring, and the playful spinning of greens. Each activity immerses them in nature, keeping their hands busy and their minds enthralled in the wonder of growth.
- Locking Wheels
- Germination shelf with circulation fan
- Full spectrum LED’s for plant growth
Windowed Sides
The open sides are a vivid frame of greenery, capturing the child’s interest and extending an invitation to participate. The perfectly formed openings create a sense of expansiveness, blurring the boundaries between nature and the class.
A Compact Harvesting Cabinet is Coming Soon!
Our newest cabinet, the Compact Cabinet, will provide an option for Montessori classrooms with limited space or those with budget restrictions. It will not provide the same workspace or storage for learning materials as the standard cabinets do. These will need to be incorporated into your environment, but it will make repetition possible.
The excitement of results!
A treasured workspace.
Observable changes entice.
Cabinet #3 Composting
Our current model of the Composting Cabinet is protected by a simple and elegant curtain, to "let the worms sleep" while providing increased air movement for hot climates. The curtains can be tied back by a beautiful twisted cord attached to the cabinet, allowing the worm composter tray to be rolled out into the classroom.
- A composter trolley
- Washable curtains
- Curtain tiebacks
A Special Trolley for the Worm Composter
An independent, wheeled compost tray is a marvelous feature of the Composting Cabinet. It provides the worms with a safe, dark space, creating a ‘home’ for them in the class, while also allowing easy care. Fully removable, often a small group of fascinated children gathers around the worm composter.
Fascinating for the child.
Nature in their hands.
Built for the child.
Other Cabinet Features
Sensorial Learning
The child works with a variety of sensory states: wet and dry, light and dark, alive and dead, seed and plant.
Quality Materials
Beautiful long-lasting, water-resistant Baltic birch cabinests with cool LED lights and locking wheels.
Practice Skills
The system integrates skill-building exercises, such as cord tying practice for access to the worm bin.
Meticulous Design
Child-sized cabinets and shelving storage to create order and independent learning.
Bring a Vibrant Community to Your Children
The NatureTot System helps you create a vibrant community in your classroom, based on nature and interdependence. Community is the work of many, creating something bigger than its parts. It creates belonging and sense of self worth. Each work progresses the cycle of life. Each contribution is significant, no matter how small. The adult’s contribution as observer and guide is equally important to the quiet work of plant and worm.
Teachers Are In Love
I have always struggled to bring more nature into my classroom.
- Mari
The quality of Neinhuis. Even I don't have a steel countertop.
- Michelle G.
We need this now. I miss our garden so much.
- Gretchen
My son wants to come to school now.
- Sarah
The children are learning how to care for one another.
- Eline
Simply more fun! I strongly recommend the NatureTot System to all educators.
- Julia
Most striking was the children were the doers while I was an observer.
- Julia
Leet has a deep understanding of Montessori education.
- Julia
I highly recommend this program for any classroom!
- Laurie
I think it is brilliant!
- Eline
NatureTot System Masterclass
US$299*499*Includes 3 months free access to community.
One TimeSelf guided course with do it yourself instructions.
- Full Online Training Course
- Free 3-month community access
- Then pay $9/month for course and community access
- Learn what materials you need
- Learn how to introduce those materials
- Gain access to purchase materials or cabinets. Upgrade anytime.
- Full Online Training Course
All Inclusive Sytem
US$62596459One TimeEverything you need to introduce nature to your classroom.
- Full Online Training Course
- Free 6-month community access
- Then pay $9/month for course and community access
- All 3 Cabinets
- Materials
- Tools
- Full Online Training Course