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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Tied in with 'Our Whenua' unit of learning on how we use and care for our land in NZ. This was a Science/Social Study enquiry. We also used the kit in Maori Language week as a way to learn new food vocabulary.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? We are now going to plant our seedlings and watch them grow and hopefully produce some healthy kai for us!

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? We got the children to sample the vegetable of the seeds we had planted and many hadn't tasted some. It was a great way to introduce vegetables to children as a tasty alternative snack.

“My new entrant class loved planting the seeds and watching them grow. We had a taste of what the vegetable would look like and all of this worked in beautifully with 'Our Whenua' enquiry about how we look after and use our land in NZ.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? We have an orchard at our school so we linked this kit with our worm farm. We talked about we can do with the vegetable scraps.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Looking into how plants grow will be some future learning that we will do.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Students are sharing all the vegetables they have eaten and are wanting to try new vegetables. The vegetable match game was a great way for students to learn the names of vegetables.

“Thank you for sending our class a Little Garden school kit. The children have learnt so much about growing vegetables and the names of different vegetables. The codes and story behind the 'Little Garden League' hooked the children in and made them very excited to grow their vegetable, protect it and most importantly taste new vegetables.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? We used growth charts to measure and also reading the table for showing how long germination and harvesting takes. Also, the language used was new learning for our year 3 students - germination, harvesting, growth, roots, shoots etc. We also talked abo

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? It was a shame that in Auckland, we had a lockdown so our term was cut short... but had we not sent our plants home for the holidays. We are having a competition to see who can look after their plant over the holiday and then share photos of our plant whe

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Children were interested in what parts of the plant they would be able to eat and if they were 'real' vegetables! We had also investigated bees the term earlier so it was great to look at how vegetables grow after we had looked at fruit and the pollinatio

“The Little Garden kit was presented in an interesting, engaging and creative way! What a wonderful story. Our class loved the extra elements of codes and letters as well as the learning from growing seeds. What a valuable resource - all presented beautifully! Many students then asked parents to shop at New World so they could also have other varieties of seedlings at home too - this shows how much they loved the planting and watching the growth!”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Visual Literacy- posters. Transactional writing- how to plant a seed. Caring for our environment. Maths - measurement - graphing. Etc

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Native plants. Caring for our environment- forests etc.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Children’s willingness to taste new vegetables.

“I really liked how quickly the resources arrived and was pleasantly surprised at the range and high quality. My tamariki loved planting the seeds and belonging to the little garden league. I even had parents telling me how their children had started to eat their Veggies! I did supplement the resource with other materials such as posters and books. We also experimented with growing plants from veggie scraps.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Art - flowers. Literacy - writing about our experiences, descriptions etc. Values - caring for our plants. Science - growth, change and life cycles.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Planitng more things such as fruit, veges and trees.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Students can articulate hwy vegetables are good for us. The can also describe how to care for plants.

“A great resource for my new entrant students. The pledge got buy in and our students are trying nre vegetables at home and we cant wait to taste our own veges before the end of the year.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? This term our topic was growing. The students enjoyed watching the plants grow and were excited at taking turns to water the plants.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? We have decided to send the plants home with the students so they can sent us progress of how they grow.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? The student understand the important of eating vegetables. Some even went home and tried new vergetables.

“This School kit was fantastic. The student enjoyed watching the plants grow, receiving the badges and deciphering the codes.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? We have focussed on doing the kit as it is but we are going into living world in term 4 which will branch out across all curriculum areas

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? We are going to plant out our school garden and continue to learn about growing things, from veges to trees and plants

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Children have been talking about trying new veges at home!

“We are so impressed with the little garden league kit. The children were really engaged and have thoroughly enjoyed all the aspects of the kit. It leads nicely into our term 4 focus on the living world so wee will continue it then. Thanks school kit!”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Maths-Measuring, Ratio, counting Science-life cycle of a plant literacy-recount writing Health-what do plants need to grow. ART-sketching sprouting plants.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Planting process, how students can plant other things not just vegetables. Recording progress, taking care of something. Being kind and nurturing. Producing something that everyone can take part in. Art-sketching and class projects about plants, how they

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Students are more aware of what goodness vegetables provide for them and their bodies. We have learnt that there are many ways that vegetables can be cooked and consumed. For those that do not like vegetables some can make smoothies or blend them into fri

“THANK YOU FOR THIS VERY AMAZING RESOURCE! R10 have enjoyed the experience of planting their vegetables and being part of a club, the badge they get to wear. Being able to record and grow their vegetables has been a very fulfilling learning experience for all my students.”

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