Oasis Trilingual Community School

Kids love Oasis! My 1^st grader’s favorite subject at Oasis is Mandarin and my 4^th graders favorite is Science. Oasis is giving them a love of learning, by being child led. The teachers really connect with my kids, even on their grumpy days, and let’s face it kids get grumpy! Have trouble getting your kids to open up about school? Mine can’t stop talking about what cool things they learned each day. Today they learned about Christopher Columbus in Spanish class, last Friday they adopted worms, every week they do yoga and Kung Fu, two weeks ago they were introduced to the trumpet and tried to make it sound like notes, three weeks ago they learned about Nikola Tesla and his big mistake in technology class, last month they split celery and put one side in the red dyed water and the other in the blue dyed water to see if their hypothesis was correct, why or why not?, every week they will be speaking in Mandarin for show and tell, and don’t forget about the new shading techniques they are learning in art class. I save so much money on enrichment class such as art, physical education, yoga, music, technology class and more in depth learning into English, science, math, social studies, and of course Mandarin and Spanish!

Oasis is a reasonably priced, private non-​profit elementary school. My daughter started in the inaugural kinder class last year and is currently attending 1^st grade at Oasis. We are thrilled with all aspects of the learning environment. Engaged teachers, individualized lesson plans, enrichment classes, social emotional development programs, and wonderful families. After 6 months in her kinder year, she was reading and writing Chinese! But the best part of the school is that she was having fun while learning. My goal was to find a school where it would grow my daughter’s love of learning and curiosity. Oasis continues to do that. Not only is she exposed to different cultures and languages, she loves the hands on science, math, technology, cooking, gardening, yoga, martial arts, Spanish drama, art… just to name a few. The school tries to focus on the whole child.
Just some examples of how my daughter (during her kinder year) was being taught:
— hide and seek in Spanish outside courtyard (teacher hides items and calls out the name in Spanish while the students look for the items.
— walking around the community with the English teacher and the students pointing out things that make up a community (fire house, police station, libraries, etc)
— cooking Spanish and Chinese dishes, comparing and eating the dishes. Teachers are also speaking in their native tongue while cooking with the students
— grocery shopping with the students in Mandarin (students each had an item to find which was written in Chinese
— when the students were studying about the government, the school attempted to call the President, wrote the President and then the older students ran for an office with the whole student body voting
— there is a kindness jar (if a student sees someone doing something nice, the student can draw or write it down and put it in the jar)
If you are looking for a great education for your child, go tour Oasis!

I moved all the way to Pasadena from Redondo Beach for my daughter to attend this school. They are a progressive Mandarin, Spanish and English immersion elementary school. My daughter is so happy there and she is learning so much. Each child has their own individualized plans and goals and it appropriately challenged. The staff is excellent and they really care about their school and their students. The families are also great! I’ll update more after a few months