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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Lead easily into a variety of writing opportunities, researching unknown plants, te reo Maori.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Students expressed interest in trying out different recipes, collating them. Also making our own see pots to sell for a fundraiser.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Learning and talking about vegetables they were unaware of and started tasting some.

“Little Garden was fantastic! All the extra resources like badges and code crackers kept the motivation levels high. I teach a multi-level class and it sparked a lot of learning across 6-11 year olds.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? This has linked well with: health and physical education, the arts, English and the key competencies!

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Our children are now interested in how we can create gardens at our school where they can get items for their lunch if they need extra! We are in the process of trying to put this plan into place.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? The children have seen how they can plant a seed and with love, sunshine, water and soil they can create kai!

“Our team have been blown away with how excited the kids were! Being part of the Little Garden League has been a highlight of the year and as we all know this year has been a bit crazy. So thank you School Kit for creating some seriously cool memories for our class. Our whanau have also been super excited about the growing and have got on board by fostering the children’s interests at home too. I feel as though this has brought our class closer together being part of the league! It’s something that would be really cool to do again! The kids have loved learning about all the wide selection of edible healthy treats! We bought some fresh veggies into our classroom and prepared them by peeling, slicing and grating to share together as a healthy snack! The kids then realised what their seedling was going to become and are patiently awaiting the next step. This resource is greatly appreciated by Durie Hill School in Whanganui and we look forward to our next School Kit experience.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Writing, maths

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? lots of different ways to plant seeds.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Some vegetables that they were not aware of, they found out more information about it.

“Children were very excited about this. Enjoyed it tremendously.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? science

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? nutrition

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? more about growing your own

“thanks heaps- came at time of kaitaiakitanga inquiry.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Writing descriptions, poems, writing codes, co-operative play with games, science behind plant growth, maths ( measurement of plants, time to germinate etc) just to name a few.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? We are going to design our own garden for our class and then plant out and care for our seedlings. Hopefully we will get to harvest and taste our own produce. We have school gardens but will have our own to give them ownership.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? The children now recognise a bigger range of vegetables. We are planning on having tastings of veges and make a frittata type dish. We will be discussing different ways we can add veges to their daily diet, eg in lunchboxes. They are all excited about gro

“Review on LGL kit from Ruma Tekau, Riverlands School”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Writing - writing stories about growing plants Writing -writing about the different tastes of foods Maths - counting leaves, plants, shoots etc Maths - keeping graphs/recording findings Reading - reading about gardening Writing - keeping a plant diar

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Children finding out about gardening and wanting to create their own family gardens at home. Future opportunities - investigating sugar content in foods and packaging information

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? The kit provided a lot of opportunity to discuss the healthy foods we were growing. The children had lots of opportunity to ask questions and really get into planting. They were all very excited to start their own gardens at home.

“This was a great kit to share with my class! There were many opportunities to discuss and learn about healthy eating, sugar, food packaging, how to garden and the benefits of fresh fruit and veges. The children loved the fact that they got to grow things from scratch.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Every area of the curriculum can easily be covered with the little garden. The codes were fun for literacy and letter recognition, science through our discoveries about plant growth, maths through our graphs, technology with our baking, and we've only ju

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Caring for our planet, looking at where our food comes from and what we can do with it, continuing with exploring life cycles of plants.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? We have learnt about a range of vegetables, compared tastes between raw and cooked, and also discovered the difference between a fruit and a vegetable.

“The resources supplied were incredible. Every child was able to participate and its been a great way to encourage more exploring of healthy eating and living. We even had a child ask their mum to buy radish since she tried it with us at school and liked it. We are looking forward to growing our own and hopefully the produce something soon. The resource is ver versatile and can be extended and used in so many different ways. I live the ideas that other schools have done on Facebook. What a great way to share ideas.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? For Mathematics - sorting, counting, measurement, matching symbols. Literacy - oral language, reading letters, writing letters. Science - Living World

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Technology and Food. Using our vegetable to make recipes with all the vegetables they grown. Having a market stall to sell produce.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? We haven't quite got to this stage as yet but it is planned for Term 4.

“Thanks so much for the Little Garden Kit. The children were so excited to be part of the secret league and loved their badges. The excitement and learning around plants and how they produce food has been great. They have made lots of connections with New World and getting the same ones when shopping. We will continue this learning into Term 4. Thank you again.”

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