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- This program is for Kindergarten and Grades 1 and 2 teachers who want to grow an indoor classroom garden of food seedlings with their class. For programs for higher grades please refer to this link.
- If you have any questions about any of the Oasis Programs don't hesitated to book a call with or email [email protected].
- If your school needs an invoice and can't make Credit Card Payments, no problem! Email us to arrange: [email protected]
Or simply email or call Leila: 647-887-1534, [email protected]
This fun and hands-on program grows you a curriculum-connected classroom garden and transforms your teaching!
Engages different types of learners and leaves an amazing legacy for you, by giving your students the authentic hands-on experience of growing their own food, right in your classroom.
It's never been easier to empower!
What do you think it takes to grow a food garden at school?
With Oasis Programs all that it takes are:
- Following instructions.
- Knowing how to teach off of pre-written (tested and proven) lesson plans!
- A sunny window (4 to 5 hours of direct sunlight)
- Enthusiasm to teach your classroom garden into existence!
No...
- guess work!
- spinning your wheels
- spending time outside your prep or class time to research or write plans
Not required:
- Any growing experience!
- Any outdoor garden space!
Oasis Kinder 1 & 2 gives you everything you need
Lesson Plans, Activity Sheets, Video Trainings, Supplies Checklists, and much much more!
Why Trust Us?
Growing School and Classroom gardens since 2013
Kids' Growing City had humble beginnings starting as an after-school gardening program in a private school. Since then our main focus has been figuring out the answer to this question:
"What's the most effective way to teach elementary and middle school curricula using gardens as an authentic learning tool?"
And after a decade of working with educators side by side, developing, getting feedback, testing, and fine-tuning programs on the ground, we've got the perfect solution.
Pre-COVID our facilitators grew 15 amazing schools gardens in local schools.
Some of the schools we've worked with throughout the years are...
Redstone p.s., Windham Ridge P.S., Gosford P.S., Island Public/Natural Science School, R J Lang Elementary and Middle School, Don Mills M.S., Pelmo Park P.S., Donald Cousens P.S., Armadale P.S., Hollywood p.s., Beckett Farm P.S., Firgrove p.s., Somerset Academy, Mcmurrich p.s., CMS Private Schools, Richland Academy private school,
just to name a few.
post-COVID we pivoted and made our Lesson Plans available to teachers online
Oasis Programs grew over 100 classroom gardens in 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024 for participating teachers.
Some of the schools that joined Oasis Classroom Program are...
Brown Junior Public School, Beverley Heights Middle School, Alexander Stirling P.S., Windham Ridge P.S., Greensborough P.S., Baycrest Public School, Dixon Grove Junior Middle School, Elmbank Junior Middle Academy, Rawlinson Community School,
just to name a few.
What's included in Oasis Kinder 1 & 2 Program
Oasis Kinder 1 & 2 5-Week Lesson Plan
Program includes a lesson plan for the following:
Week 1 (Suggested start: The week of April 14th): Growing Bean
Week 2: Growing Basil
Week 3: Growing Zucchini
Week 4: Growing Sunflower
Week 5: Growing Watermelon
Planting Video Instructions
Step-By-Step Video Instructions on how to run the growing activities with your young students.
Fun activity sheets for every plant your students grow.
Every week they will learn about the seed they are growing, how to grow it, life cycle of the plant, culinary uses of the food that plant produces, and much more, through reading simple words and sentences, coloring pages, etc. on their activity sheets.
Immediately Upon Registration, For each of the 11 lessons, you will get:
A Complete Material and Supplies Checklist of:
- Seed, Soil, Seed, Starting Pots, etc.
- General Tools such as Table Covering, Watering Cans, etc.
Lesson Specific Supplies such as material for building water filter, soil experiments, worms, etc.
Professional Development Hours
Upon Completion of Very Simple Progress Reports...
- Every implemented lesson inside the Oasis programs is considered 1.5 hours of professional development.
- A certificate of participation will be issued for the participating teachers, indicating their acquired professional development hours.
- This will be given ONLY to teachers who submit their weekly reports clearly showing their lesson executions and progress.
What to do with what you'll produce
Fast-maturing plants such as arugula, or leaf lettuce could be enjoyed right in your classroom. Make salads or smoothies!
Longer-maturing seedlings can be...
- Sold at a student-led market (entrepreneurial connection),
- Taken home by students and staff,
- Donated to local community gardens (community connection),
- Or all of the above!
Have never grown a garden before?
Sometimes teachers who have grow successfully at home or have tried growing gardens at school are set on their "wrong" or inefficient ways of growing...
- which makes them not very coachable about proven efficient but sometimes controversial ways we grow gardens in Oasis programs...
- they are understandably attached to their old ways because they have invested a lot of nerves, time and energy setting those systems up or making those decisions.
...You have an advantage to learn the right way and have massive success by following the right advice in Oasis Programs!
Ever felt like this, thinking about growing a school garden?
With Oasis Kinder 1 & 2 you...
- will have more than enough time
- won't need any help from parents or other volunteers
- won't need no experts to pay your class a visit
- will have no summer maintenance
- will know exactly how it all connects to your curriculum and what to teach when
- will need no raised beds, expensive or complicated tools or equipment, bulk soil and mulch, and huge expenses... Only seeds, starting pots and buckets, bagged soil and inexpensive craft material...
...And you'll still grow an impressive classroom garden that wows everyone!
Your Investment will only be...
Oasis Kinder 1 & 2
$555 CAD for the first teacher
$75 per additional teacher in the same school.
If your school can't invest through PayPal or by Credit Card, and you'd like to make the investment through Purchase Order agreements, email [email protected] and request an invoice.
Supplies Add-on
$295 per participating class of up to 30 students
(for Greater Toronto Area schools ONLY)
This includes the cost of labor for purchasing, packaging per lesson, and delivery
We will deliver all supplies to your participating classrooms
Indicate your interest at checkout and we will contact you.
If your school is outside of the Greater Toronto Area, no worries, every lesson is coming to you with a supplies checklist and we will help you source during your coaching sessions.
If you followed and executed all Lessons and utilized my coaching sessions to ask your questions and your garden was not successful(*)…
Just email [email protected] including your proof (documented with pictures) and we will refund 100% of your money!
(*) Disclaimers:
- Not even for expert growers, does every seed grow and not all seedlings grow perfectly well even if you do everything right! We trust that you measure success fairly, looking at the overall growth of the garden as well as the hands-on learning your students gained and not based on a few seeds that didn’t grow or seedlings that didn’t survive.
- Your success directly correlates with the quality of your seeds and soil as well as the sunlight your seedlings receive. We highly recommend Supplies Add-on for local schools and attention to quality indicators on the material checklists for all!
Transformations
Plus An Amazing Bonus
(free of extra charge)
Coaching
FREE Coaching sessions with one-on-one help before, during and after the programs till the end of the school year!
At least 1 hour per Lesson.
Session are with Leila Mireskandari, the founder and director of Kids' Growing City and the creator of Oasis Programs who's been growing food with students, teachers and schools for almost a decade at full-time capacity.
She charges $200/Hour for Private Coaching. At least 5 hours of access to her is
