2026–2027
NIDI ANNUAL CALENDAR
TERM 1: ROOTS
July 27 – September 4
Note: Opens Monday, July 27
SABBATH WEEK: September 7 – 11
TERM 2: GATHERING
September 14 – October 23
SABBATH WEEK: October 26 – 30
TERM 3: HEARTH
November 2 – December 11
Nov 25 -27 Thanksgiving Break
CHRISTMAS REST: December 18 – January 4
TERM 4: LIGHT
January 4 – February 12
MLK Day (Jan 18) No School
SABBATH WEEK: February 15 – 19
TERM 5: PRUNING (Shortened Term)
February 22 – March 19
SPRING BREAK: March 22 – 30
Note: Week before Easter (March 28)
TERM 6: RISING
March 30 – May 7
SABBATH WEEK: May 10 – 14
TERM 7: BEARING
May 17 – June 25
Memorial Day (May 31) No School
Juneteenth (June 18) No School
SUMMER REST: June 28 – July 16
THE YEAR BY NUMBERS
• 40 weeks of instruction
• 160 academic days (Monday–Thursday)
• 40 field studies
• 7 rest periods (5 Sabbath weeks + extended holiday breaks)
A Day at Nidi
We do not run on bells and bathroom passes. We run on rhythm, a steady beat of a day that breathes, stretches, and settles like a child curled into a nap.​ At Nidi, Monday through Thursday follows Charlotte Mason’s golden rule: short lessons, varied subjects, living ideas. Your five-year-old will spend no more than twenty minutes on any single task, moving from mathematics with bean counters to a living book about honeybees, from a poem by Christina Rossetti to a watercolor of the very tree we’ll visit on Friday. We break for the outdoors before lunch, rest after eating, and spend afternoons in seasonal work or practical life—the slow, holy work of becoming capable humans.
8:00: Morning Assembly
Hymn, prayer, weather/nature observation, calendar
8:10: Bible/Scripture
Living story, narration, gentle discussion
8:40: Mathematics
Concrete manipulatives, mental math, games
9:10: Literature / Tales & Fables
Mon–Wed: Living booksThu–Fri: Aesop’s fables & folk tales
9:35: PSR (Phonics, Spelling, Reading)
Short lessons in decoding, word building, sight play