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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Maths - pictographs, Health - healthy smoothies Literacy - Writing recipes Science - plant cycle and areas of a plant

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Creating our own garden at school

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? My class has learned how to grow their own plant. They have learned what the key factors are when growing a plant.

“I have 20 year 1s and 2s. There are enough seeds for all my kids. The leftovers were given to another junior class who started their little garden this week. My class was so excited after learning they were having their own seed. The seeds are starting to sprout. My kids are having fun learning about gardening and watching their plants grow. They have learned how to look after their own plant by watering them twice a day and putting them in the sun during the day.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Students were writing about how they are growing their garden.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? What other plants can they grow from seedlings.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Our Garden Group talked to the school about the little garden and the benefits of growing your own food.

“The kids were super excited to get the kit and are growing their seedlings for our school garden.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? The kit was excellent for learning across the curriculum. We have been measuring the daily growth for maths, writing stories, reading facts about vegetables, learning what nutrients are in the different vegetables, learning how plants grow and the names o

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Our learning will continue next term in all the curriculum areas as described above.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? The kids have learnt a lot a bout vegetables including those they have never heard of. We have discussed 5 plus a day and why it is important to eat vegetables. They are looking forward to eating them!

“An excellent kit which has our students engaged and intrigued.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? We did coding/maths, science with the water cycle, writing by creating our own characters and writing descriptions and we got to do art by designing them.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? We are now going to create a garden for our school. One of our great parents are helping us use our greenhouse that sits empty then we will learn about the garden to the plate.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? They have been learning all the names of the vegetables and how they are good for your body. It has connected to our whole school topic on The Good Life.

“this has been an excellent kit. the kids have loved learning all about he fruit and vegetables and were intrigued when they were part of the LGL club. They have learned all about growing plants and the best way to look after them. We have also done some propagation to follow on from the videos we watched.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? OMG this was the best thing about the kit for us. We did plant art, we also got the tamariki to choose their fave vege / fruit and then we did a number of lessons teaching the kids about pictographs using the fruits. Lots of guided reading books on health

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? We are going to do alot more science and looking at what plants need to grow etc. Also a bigger focus and enquiry on what we need to grow ourselves and looking more into healthy eating.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Our kids now think its really cool to eat fruit and veges and they enjoyed discussing what they have tried and what they would like to try. The increase of fruit and veges during brain break time has been massive. We also have a compost bin now and the ki

“The Little Garden League has opened a whole new door in our classroom. The kids are loving not only watching the growing process but also learning about vegetables and fruit. Our parents have been sending us in pictures of the kids plants at home and getting onboard too. Our tamariki have had a tour round our school orchard and vege garden by our caretaker and we cant wait to do our bit for the school and plant our little gardens in there once they are ready to be replanted. We can't thank you enough, the learning has been massive.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Literacy and numeracy. Writing and problem solving involving vegetables. We also incorporated the Arts easily into this unit.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Healthy eating was a favourite for our kids and will definitely be an area to continue to grow with the use of our school garden.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Our kids had a healthy eating afternoon making dips and humus to eat and try new vegetables. Children are more aware of vegetables to eat and try rather than just saying they don't like them.

“Amazing resource that the kids loved to be a part of. Very hands on and encourages collaborative work in and outside the class.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Maths: Measurement of growth and volume of water. Writing: Language experience of planting seeds and noticing growth. Science: Needs of a seed. What is a seed? Parts of a seed. Oral language: Talking about seeds, plants and food. Te Reo: How we are k

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Children are now taking care of class garden with the seedlings from the kit. They are seeing themselves as kaitiaki of the seeds and gardens.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Students where introduced to new vegetables. Encouraged 'risk taking' when trying these new foods.

“First time using school kit and I LOVE it. Thank you New World putting this together. Our class (year 0-2) learnt so much about herbs and vegetables and skill of growing of plants. It inspired our writing, oral language and maths for the last few weeks.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? This has been extremely engaging for writing motivation, scientific observations, healthy eating, and we linked our reading and maths to seed learning too.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? We have created our own junior garden that they are now responsible for in our school.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Once the produce is ready to consume the kids will be more motivated to try eating their own grown healthy foods. They are also enjoying finding out more about the vegetables they weren’t familiar with.

“This has been the easiest kit to work with NE. The Kids loved the matching card game, posting club letters, and making observations on their growing plants.”

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