Oak Learners

✨ And just like that, another incredible school year comes to a close! 🎒✨

A big thank you to all of our amazing staff, students, and parents at Oak Learners for making this such a beautiful year. We are so grateful for our community and the ways we’ve grown and learned together! 🌿

We hope everyone has a fantastic, safe, and memory-filled summer. We can’t wait to see your smiling faces back with us this September! 🍁

☀️ Planning ahead for the summer or next school year?

If you are looking for Full-Time Schooling, Part-Time Schooling, Tutoring, Music lessons, or Summer Camps, we have something for every learner.

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These activities will likely spark curiosity and development of important skills such as problem-solving and inquiry.

Online Resources for Learning Science at Home - Oak Learners The science resources below all feature exciting ways for students to explore science topics within the curriculum and beyond. Learning about interesting topics in science is also a great way to encourage students to practice reading and writing at the same time.

With the help of technology and some creativity, students of any ability, age, or income can be involved in community projects and volunteering.

Promoting Community Involvement & Volunteering from Home - Oak Learners One of the most consistent messages we’ve heard throughout this pandemic is to stay at home, but what can we do when “home” starts to feel like a lonely place? One solution is to encourage children and youth to get involved with community service and volunteering projects. Community engagement...

Our Part-Time Private School Enrollment option is open for students from JK to Grade 6!
This program allows your child to dive into the same immersive, inquiry-based, and interdisciplinary learning that defines the Oak Learners experience.

🗓️ Choose what works for you: 2, 3, or 4 days per week.

🎒 The best part? Part-time students learn, explore, and grow right alongside our full-time school community, getting full access to our arts-enriched and outdoor programming.

Spaces are limited to maintain our intimate 6:1 student-to-teacher ratio!
Check out thttps://oaklearners.ca/bridge-the-gap-part-time-private-school/

This easy art project is great for the whole family!

Raised Salt Painting - Oak Learners Art is a very important part of learning and creative expression. This raised salt painting activity is a great DIY activity to try at home!

We are all asking the same question - How much screen time is too much?

Screen Time: Scary or Necessary? - Oak Learners If you’re like me, you have likely spent your child’s early years making extraordinary efforts to limit screen time and avoid the 80’s “TV Babysitter”. Yet, here we are in 2021 faced with the necessity of doing almost everything in our days on a screen. No longer do we just receive enterta...

🪿 This week at Humber Bay, we met some very busy families.

Did you know goslings can swim within 24 hours of hatching? 🐣💧 And when goose families group up, they form what's called a "gang brood," a giant daycare watched over by just a few adults.

This is one of the many birds we watch and learn about when we are outdoors. 🌿

📍 Humber Bay, Toronto

🧚✨ To most, it's a creek. To our kids, it's a fairy portal to the fae lands.

James Garden in Etobicoke is one of our favourite escapes, with stone pathways, spring-fed streams, towering trees, and pure childhood magic. 🌿

📍 James Garden, 99 Edenbridge Dr, Etobicoke
https://www.toronto.ca/explore-enjoy/parks-recreation/places-spaces/parks-and-recreation-facilities/location/?id=3&title=James-Gardens

🌿 At Oak Learners, the outdoors isn't an add-on — it's a cornerstone of our day.

Every single day, our children spend 50% of their time outside, grounding themselves in nature, moving their bodies, and learning through the living world around them.

Because we believe the best classroom often has no walls. 🍃
Check out: https://oaklearners.ca/private-school/

Now you can watch the tornado spin in a safe place for your observation.

Tornado in a Jar Experiment - Oak Learners The tornado in a jar experiment is a great way to teach kids about weather conditions such as tornados and safety measures for nature related events.