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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Science - what plants need to grow. Literacy - food stories, planning a garden, reading books about plants Maths - graphing favourite fruit and vegies. Planning a garden Art - Vegetable garden collage

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Making a community garden at our school. Selling the produce we grow as a fundraiser.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Lots of talk about 5 a day. The importance of fruit and vegies in our diet and how if we grow them at home we know they are fresh.

“Great fun and just the right time of year to grow the seeds and plant in the school gardens.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Students have been writing recipes, describing vegetables, persuading people to eat different vegetables multiplying recipe ingredients to cater for bigger groups, looking at cause and effect when we leave plants outside in the sun/rain/if the birds get t

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Baking, creating a vegetable feast, exploring groups of vegetables (e.g. nightshade family).

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? We have worked to hide vegetables in different ";treat"; foods, and tasted new vegetables! We also wrote about how we were trying to camouflage the vegetables. One student wrote: ";Camouflage is when you hide things. My Dad hid capsicum in the mince and

“This kit is incredible! It has provided opportunities for students to challenge themselves in a range of different ways, from creating their own codes, to making up different recipes, and trying new food. I will definitely be recreating this kit again next year with our own seeds! It has also promoted collaboration in my class as students have had to work together to look after the seeds and make different food for the vegetable feast!”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Writing - wrote letters to favourite veges and used the kit letterbox to post them to the veges. Art - created our own ";vege characters";. Maths - graphed our fav veges.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Love the Little Garden donated to our kura by our local New World. Kids super excitedto take care of it and watch it grow. Thank you.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Student voice ";Broccoli is super yum and it grows big muscles. Just like the broccoli guy in the photo. I love broccoli.";

“Fantastic kit! Motivating and engaging, kids super excited to arrive at school and check in on their plants. Learners feel empowered.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Researching different veggies and fruits Writing about characters and experiences. Maths - comparing size, graphs.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? I look forward to doing cooking with veggies and exposing children to other options for healthy eating. Creating menus for whanau.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Broadened understanding and awareness of different types of veggies.

“I have a year 1 class. They thoroughly enjoyed the planting and learning about new vegetables. They found the codes quite hard to crack and therefore lost interest in doing them unfortunately. My school has had an incredibly busy last few weeks which has had a flow on effect to my commitment to the kit unfortunately.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Maths, science, writing, reading, the class are loving it. Drama as well.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? There are plenty, not all of which we will do. We've been relating plants to human life cycles and other living creatures such as butterflies. This has led to grandparent interviews and baby photo guess who? It links to swimming next term and self care. A

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? There is more conversation about what healthy food is but this has not transferred over to the contents of their lunchboxes. I will continue the unit of healthy eating and growing things into Term 4.

“The class love their little garden kits and are becoming far more knowledgeable not only about the names of vegetables and edible plants, but also in how to grow and care for living things.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? We used this kit during literacy and numeracy times in our class. Lots of predicting, measuring, observing, and describing. It gave many learning opportunities for inquiry, especially being able to relate back to our green gold enviro school status.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Being able to teach life skills of planting, growing and harvesting. How to look after things and treat them well.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Them being able to identify the good food choices that help their brains grow has become very evident in my room.

“The little garden league kit has been absolutely amazing in my class. Students have learnt so much from this kit and are SO EXCITED when they get their own seedling to plant while doing the grocery shopping. Such a serious, but fun kit! We LOVE it!”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Litearcy, alphabet recognition, oral language, science - how things grow and what they need etc..Maths- measurement of plants etc.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? How things grow, Healthy eating, worm farms, co0king, literacy

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Introduced them to vegetables they hadn't heard of or tried before.

“Fantastic kit, kids were engrossed, keen and loved getting their hands dirty and involved in the planting.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? We have had many opportunities to develop this kit through inquiry. We have had some amazing writing and reading opportunities as well as the ability to teach children a new skill, and for some a new passion of growing plants.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Students were able to go home and educate their families and whanau about making healthy choices. They learnt about how plants grow and what they need to keep alive. Our students are very excited then to use a range of ingredients including what has been

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Students have had a chance to try new foods that they may not have been exposed to in the past, and they are aware that all food is good food, there are just some that help us more ways than others.

“This kit is so engaging for the students. There are so many ways that it can be used. They have loved watching their plants grow and learning more about different vegetables that they may not be exposed to at home.”

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