News 4 San Antonio visited our Fair Oaks campus in Boerne this week to see the Curiosity Studios for themselves. The segment aired August 27 and you can watch it below.
Why we don’t call them classrooms
The word “classroom” carries a picture with it: rows, a front of the room, a teacher talking and children listening. That picture is fine for a ten-year-old. For a two-year-old it describes almost nothing that should be happening.
So we call ours Curiosity Studios. Not as a marketing flourish — because the name describes what the room is for. A studio is a place where someone makes something. In ours, the thing being made is a child’s understanding of how the world works, and the child is the one making it.
The practical difference a visitor notices first is the adults. Our teachers spend a great deal of time watching and comparatively little time instructing. The environment is prepared in advance so that the materials themselves do the teaching, and many of them are self-correcting — a child can tell without being told that a piece doesn’t fit.
Three studios, built for three very different jobs
- Infant Studio — 10 weeks to 18 months. Sensory exploration, movement, and the beginnings of independence.
- Toddler Studio — 18 months to 3 years. Practical life, language, and the enormous work of doing things without help.
- Primary Studio — 3 to 6 years. Mixed ages on purpose, so younger children learn by watching and older ones learn by explaining.
Alongside the Montessori work, every studio includes Spanish immersion, yoga and mindfulness, Science Fridays, music, and our Motor Skills Lab — plus chef-prepared meals and daily updates to your phone. All of it is in tuition. None of it is an add-on.
Why the first five years carry so much weight
This is the stretch when a child’s brain is building connections faster than it ever will again. What gets practiced in those years — asking, trying, being stuck, trying again — is what becomes automatic later.
That is the case for taking a two-year-old’s environment as seriously as a sixth-grader’s. Not because we are rushing anyone toward academics, but because the habits of mind formed now are the ones the child brings to school and keeps.
See a studio in use
The segment runs about three minutes. A tour runs about thirty, and it is a different thing entirely — you will watch children choose their own work and stay with it longer than you expect.
Edquisitive Montessori is a Cognia-accredited, Texas Rising Star 4-Star early childhood network with four campuses across San Antonio and Boerne: Fair Oaks in Boerne, Spanish Grove Academy in Stone Oak, NW Military in Shavano Park, and Little Red Caboose in the Medical Center.
Coverage: News 4 San Antonio and Daytime, August 27, 2026.
