White Oaks Elementary School is a TK–3 public school in the San Carlos School District that serves preschool through third grade and offers early education, elementary instruction, and a range of curricular and enrichment activities.
White Oaks serves preschool through third grade as part of the San Carlos School District. The school emphasizes foundational academic skills alongside social and emotional development for primary-age learners.
Instruction combines project-based and personalized learning, with a focus on foundational literacy and mathematics, inquiry-based science, and development of competencies such as collaboration, critical thinking, creativity and citizenship. Reading and writing workshops and a systematic phonics approach are used to support early literacy. Teachers set goals with students and families to support individualized learning progress.
Students have regular access to specials and enrichment including music, physical education, library/story time, and hands-on, maker-style learning. The school offers assemblies and field trips, social-emotional learning delivered by a school counselor, and various extracurricular and volunteer-supported activities to extend learning beyond the classroom.
A student-run news station in which third graders produce advertising trailers and broadcasts shared with the whole school.
Parent volunteers lead art lessons using classic works to teach art history, media and techniques, culminating in a piece highlighted at the annual art show.
On-site assemblies and community field trips bring artists and experts to students to support project-based learning.
Schoolwide conservation efforts include a monthly Walk to School event that rewards students who walk, bike, or scooter to school.
A volunteer-based tutoring program that provides one-on-one mentoring; volunteers typically work one hour per week at times convenient for them.
Students visit the school library weekly to check out books, listen to stories and practice research skills, with parent volunteers assisting.
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A flexible design lab for Preschool–Grade 3 that supports tinkering, open-ended design challenges, coding and project-based learning.
District-supported music instruction that focuses on vocal work and rhythm in the early grades and introduces beginning instruments in later primary grades.
Fitness-focused PE lessons aligned to state physical fitness standards and including instruction on healthy habits.
A loose-parts play resource used during lunch recess and available to classrooms by sign-up to support creative, collaborative play.
Regular SEL lessons are taught in all TK–3 classrooms by the school counselor, with options for small-group counseling by referral.
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