Our Programs 🌿
Thoughtfully Designed for Every Stage of Early Childhood
At Oaks+Willow Day School, each program is intentionally crafted to support children through every stage of growth with warmth, confidence, and meaningful learning experiences. Our classrooms blend nurturing relationships, joyful discovery, and strong educational foundations within beautifully designed environments that help children feel safe, capable, and inspired to learn.
Infants: Acorn & Sprout's Room
(6 weeks-17 months) 🌿
A Gentle Beginning Rooted in Love & Trust
Our Infant Program provides a calm, nurturing environment where babies are cared for with warmth, attentiveness, and individualized support. We believe the earliest relationships and experiences shape a child’s sense of security and confidence in the world around them.
Highlights
- Responsive, relationship-centered care
- Individualized feeding and sleep routines
- Sensory and language development
- Tummy time and motor exploration
- Calm, beautifully designed classrooms
- Daily communication with families
Toddler's: Wren's Room
(18 months-23 months) 🌿
Curious Minds in Motion
Our Tots Program embraces the wonder, movement, and growing independence that define this exciting stage of development. Toddlers are encouraged to explore confidently through hands-on experiences, guided discovery, and nurturing relationships.
Teachers support language growth, social-emotional development, self-help skills, and early problem-solving while creating a joyful classroom culture rooted in patience, consistency, and encouragement.
Highlights
- Language-rich learning environment
- Early social-emotional development
- Sensory play and creative exploration
- Outdoor learning experiences
- Independence-building routines
- Music, movement, and imaginative play
Twos: Fern's Room
(24 months-35 months) 🌿
Building Confidence Through Exploration
The Twos Program is designed to support children as they develop independence, communication skills, confidence, and early friendships. At this stage, children are naturally curious and eager to engage with the world around them.
Our classrooms balance structured learning experiences with purposeful play, helping children develop self-expression, emotional regulation, and foundational academic readiness in a warm and encouraging environment.
Highlights
- Early literacy and language development
- Hands-on math and discovery activities
- Potty-learning support and independence
- Structured routines with playful learning
- Fine motor and creative development
- Social confidence and classroom community
Preschool: Birch's Room
(3 years old by September 1st) 🌿
Joyful Learning with Purpose
Our Preschool Program blends creativity, academic readiness, and relationship-based learning to prepare children for future school success while preserving the joy of childhood.
Children engage in meaningful experiences that support literacy, math, science, problem-solving, collaboration, and creativity through engaging projects, hands-on learning, and guided exploration.
We intentionally cultivate confidence, kindness, curiosity, and a lifelong love of learning within an environment where children feel inspired and deeply supported.
Highlights
- Early literacy and phonics foundations
- Math readiness and critical thinking
- STEM and inquiry-based learning
- Art, music, and creative expression
- Outdoor learning and nature exploration
- Character and social-emotional development
Transitional Kindergarten: Ollie's Room
(For Little Learners that turn 5 years old after September 1st and those that need more time before going off to public school)
Confidently Ready for the Next Chapter
Our Transitional Kindergarten Program provides an elevated bridge between preschool and elementary school, combining advanced kindergarten readiness with leadership development, emotional confidence, and purposeful independence.
Children are challenged academically while continuing to learn through creativity, exploration, and meaningful relationships. The program is intentionally designed to help children transition into future school environments with confidence, resilience, and excitement.
Highlights
- Advanced literacy and writing readiness
- Math foundations and problem-solving
- Leadership and independence skills
- Executive functioning and classroom responsibility
- Small-group instruction and enrichment
- Strong focus on confidence and school readiness
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