Kindergarten

Gilbert Linkous Elementary

The Grow, Learn, Educate (GLE) Garden Program at Gilbert Linkous Elementary School began in the Spring of 2013 with a Second Grade Classroom of 20 students, one teacher, one full-time Master Gardener, one part-time Master Gardener and a seldom-used garden area accessible directly outside the Second Grade classroom hallway. A Fourth Grade Garden Club worked in the garden area for six weeks in 2012, but in to13, the garden was overtaken with weeds.

Countryside Montessori School

Countryside Montessori School has been part of the Northbrook community for more than forty years. Two years ago, we expanded our curriculum and facility to include seventh and eighth grade students. As part of the expansion of our facility, we designated space for gardens that we hope will be a primary source of work and learning for our middle school students.

Crestwood Elementary

The goal of our garden is to unite our community while feeding needy children in our school. We have approximately 75 students who are given food over the weekend. This food is pre-packaged and donated by a local church. It is the hope and desire of our staff to provide fresh fruit and vegetable along with donated food to keep our children not just fed, but fed healthy foods. This grant will make it possible for all of our children to experience the joy of gardening and the benefits of growing your own food across the lifetime.

Roseland Creek Elementary

The goal of our garden is to provide nutrition, science, and community education for 450 kindergarten through sixth grade low-income and English Language learning students.Teachers may find that the garden can provide space for other disciplines as well, such as math, history, or art. The main goals are listed here:
1. The garden will demonstrate to children how a project is first established, and then how it grows into a working entity that takes dedication and care from them in order to reap its benefits.

Yavneh Day School

We now have 3 garden beds assigned to the younger grade classrooms. Each classroom maintains independent gardens. Our vision is to have a school-wide JK - 8th grade garden that the students, teachers and families feels shared ownership and provides instructional value across grades, art classes and cooking club. This grant makes our garden expansion possible, both in physical space and curriculum design, creating a safer and user-friendlier space to accomplish this goal. (new tools and storage spaces, watering systems and protective fencing.)

Vancouver Waldorf School

As part of our Grade 3 curriculum, all students at this grade level plant, care for and harvest a small existing garden plot ("the Grade 3 Garden") as well as various apple trees on the school property. If we received this grant, part would go to enhancing our Grade 3 garden. Our school purchases organic produce from various farms and natural food stores, but we would like to have enough garden space for the children to harvest and contribute some produce to our classroom snacks, and community harvest soup event, and more.

White Oaks Elementary School

The purpose and goal of the garden is to bring the joy of gardening and food production to the children of White Oaks through an educational curriculum that meets key FOSS standards (our current science program). Currently our garden program curriculum is only utilized in the third grade. This grant would allow us to expand the program to additional grades. Eventually, we would like to have our garden program available for all grades at White Oaks (K-4). Our district is moving towards a Project Based Learning platform and gardening ties closely to this method.

Live Oak Charter School

Live Oak Charter School is a vibrant Waldorf-inspired school in Petaluma, Ca. As the school has slowly grown and matured, so have our grounds and programs. Last year, our community came together to plant a vegetable garden and pollinator garden for the nourishment and education of our students. In the coming year, we intend to expand the green space of our campus and convert a currently weedy, barren space into a small orchard of fruit trees.

Bolinas-Stinson School

The goal for our school garden this year is to fund a Garden Coordinator to support all K-8 teachers in creating a pilot garden program for the year 2014/2015. We have already applied for a County grant, two local grants (Bolinas-Stinson Community Fund and Bolinas-Stinson School Foundation), and our School Board has offered to fund between $3,000-$5,000 annually to support a school garden program to enhance science and outdoor learning in all grades.

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