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Living Classroom to receive $40,000 grant from the Los Altos Educational Foundation.

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Acterra Business Environmental Awards
Living Classroom received ACTERRA'S award for "Environmental Project."

Program Status

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    Living Classroom is now being offered to 3rd graders at 6 schools  in the Mountain View Whisman School District!
  • In the 2011-12 school year, the Los Altos School District Living Classroom Program provided 630 lessons in grades K-8 in 9 schools
  • We will offer a brand new 8th grade lesson this school year, "All about Soil" which explores the physical, chemical, and biological properties of soil.
  • Over 3 dozen trained volunteer docents are leading and assisting with lessons across the District.
  • Eagle Scouts and PTAs partnered with us to install three new educational gardens at Covington Gardner Bullis and Egan Schools and several garden improvement projects at Oak and Loyola.
  • Area businesses including Suncrest Nurseries, Valley Crest Tree Company, Coyote Valley Nursery, Summerwinds Nursery, Sacred Ground Enterprises and local individuals donated materials over the last several years.
  • Several schools offer informal lunch programs in the Living Classroom gardens. These schools have fun, hands-on activities for students including harvesting, planting, composting, preparing fresh food from the garden & more.
  • We won the 2011 Acterra Business Environmental Award in the Small Project category.

Whole Foods Market 5% Community Day

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2013 06 05 Whole Foods Flyer
We would like to encourage everyone to shop on June 5th at the Los Altos Whole Foods Market. 5% of the days sales will benefit the Los Altos and Mountain View Living Classroom Programs. Please pass it on to your friends and neighbors!

$40,000 Grant from LAEF

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logo laefLiving Classroom to receive $40,000 grant from the Los Altos Educational Foundation.  Major thanks are in order to LAEF for their generous $40,000 grant to fund the Los Altos School District Living Classroom program for the 2013-14 school year!!!  This grant represents a $5,000 increase from the previous school year.

Update: Theuerkauf Edible Garden

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The Theuerkauf Edible Garden was made possible by the generous donations of the Whole Kids Foundation, the Bullis Charter School, Eagle Scout Daniel Burns and the Health Trust.  The eleven raised planter boxes were made from recycled redwood boards which were originally used as picnic benches.  The automatic irrigation is controlled by a solar powered irrigation timer which requires no electrical hard wiring.

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