Wooden Shoes Child Care Center

Is your child turning ONE?

At Wooden Shoes Childcare Center, our one-year-old classroom provides a safe, loving, and nurturing environment where toddlers can explore, play, and learn at their own pace.

Through age-appropriate activities, music, movement, sensory play, and daily routines, we help children develop their language, motor, social, and emotional skills—all while receiving the individual attention and affection they need during this important stage.

Nutritious meals are included and carefully planned by nutrition professional.

****Enrollment is now OPEN for children ages 12 months and older****

Spaces are limited—contact us today to schedule a tour!

📞 941-957-8182

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The biggest growth in VPK doesn’t always come home in a backpack.

Sometimes it looks like raising a hand to share an idea. Using words to explain what’s wrong. Waiting for a turn with the blue crayon. Offering a toy to a new friend. Or proudly showing off something they completed all by themselves!

These moments may look small, but they help children build patience, work through emotions, follow classroom routines, develop social skills, and grow in confidence.

So when kindergarten begins, they can walk through the door ready to learn.

🌼 Start your child’s VPK journey at elcsarasota.org/free-preschool-for-4-year-olds/

What an exciting start to our VPK year! ✨

Seeing so many familiar little faces walk through our doors, excited and ready for a brand-new school year, made our first day extra special. 💛

We can’t wait to watch our VPK students learn, grow, explore, and create wonderful memories together throughout the year. A new year, new adventures, and so much learning ahead!

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A wonderfully refreshing day during this hot summer! Our children had so much fun cooling off with a delicious Ice treat.

What a perfect way to wrap up the summer with smiles, laughter, and sweet memories!

✨ STEAM Week was all about science, technology, engineering, art,math and hands-on discovery! Our little learners had an amazing time exploring exciting experiments, creating, and building. Every activity sparked curiosity, imagination, and so many smiles!!

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What an incredible day! Our little campers had a very special visit from three amazing superheroes—Miles Morales, Spidey, and Wolverine! 🕷️💙💛

The children were absolutely thrilled to meet their favorite heroes, give high-fives and enjoy this exciting superhero adventure together. Their smiles, laughter, and excitement made this visit truly unforgettable!

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Give Your Favorite Children's Book in Honor of My Mom 📚❤️

Help us celebrate my mom's birthday by putting 10,000 books into the hands of children by September 3rd.

Donate a favorite children's book and help inspire a lifelong love of reading.

Every book counts. Every gift honors her legacy.
https://www.momsbooknook.net/donate

📚 Goal: 10,000 books by September 3rd

Sports Week at our Summer Camp was full of fun, movement, and creativity!

Our little campers enjoyed a mix of indoor fun, outdoor games, plus creative arts and crafts when the weather kept us inside.

Rain or shine, always find a way to have a great time, stay active, and make wonderful summer memories!

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Update: This workshop is now sold out!

Not to be dramatic, but your tiny chef needs this on their calendar. 👩‍🍳✨

Cooking Counts is coming to Sarasota! We’re hosting this free WEDU PBS workshop in partnership with Florida Blue, and it’s all about helping children ages 3–6 explore early math through pretend cooking and playful activities.

We’re talking scooping, sorting, counting, measuring, and big “I did it!” energy.

Space is limited, registration is required, and we have a feeling these spots won’t simmer for long.

We would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to Alison Fraga, the new CEO of the Early Learning Coalition Of Sarasota County, for taking the time to visit our preschool.

We truly appreciated her sincere interest in learning more about our program, our children, our families, and the work we do every day. Her openness, transparency, kindness, and genuine willingness to collaborate meant a great deal to our team.

Visits like this remind us of the importance of building strong partnerships within our early learning community, always with the shared goal of supporting children and families in the best possible way.

Thank you, Alison, for your thoughtful words and for your commitment to early childhood education in Sarasota!