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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Maths..measurement as the seeds grow. Nice introduction into looking at the way our local environment is used tp produced foods

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? DT Technologies , and nutrition( Healthy eating)

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? The little gardens has been very helpful with our ";Packet to Plate"; Inquiry.

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Maths - Measuring how much the little gardens have grown. Writing - writing about the experience of planting them Health - Discussion around healthy foods

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Learning about new vegetables that some children had never heard of.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Discussion around eating healthy foods and the importance of it.

“Little Garden”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? We learnt to take turns and share garden equipment when doing this. We also incorporated measurement into this activity with measuring out soil, and measuring water to water the plants.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Measurement for growth - and lots of discussion about the weather and how it affects our plants,

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Children have learnt about a few more vegetables

“This kit was amazing - I was lucky enough to have assistance in my classroom this year who loved doing this project with my class. Unfortunately some of our plants got ruined during the 2 week holiday, but others we managed to put in the green house and are growing beautifully.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Science - learning about plants, Religious Education - creation and caring for it, English - reading about plants &; the coding cracking literacy skills, Maths - measurement

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Caring for our environment and sustainable living etc

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? They tried new vegetables at our tasting session as long as children even trying ones that they won't eat at home. Reinforced that they need to try things before they can say if they like them or not.

“This was an amazing and engaging resource for my New Entrant/Year 1 class. The concept of the Little Garden League was wonderful and the children wear their badges with pride. We have grown each seedling, plus repotted many and are now ready to put them in the garden. The resource enabled lots of teachable moments as well as activities for the children to do as individuals, with a partner, in a group or as the whole class. The resource opened up opportunities for a lot of our New Zealand curriculum learning areas as well as the key competencies. Thank you so much for this great resource.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Writing - instructional writing and keeping a diary of their growing plant. Reading - reading books to do with vegetables and growing plants. Maths - measuring our seedlings as they grow. Health - healthy and unhealthy foods

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? discussing recipes they could cook at home and where they will plant their seedlings.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? The children have more awareness of new vegetables and are even exploring recipes to cook using their seedlings when they have grown.

“A great resource and spark for integrated learning.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Great links to writing, reading and art opportunities.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? This could lead to further inquiries into food and wellbeing.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? This has really made children think about what they are eating and they started noticing when they had healthy or non-healthy food.

“This was a great program. It was a little tricky for us to incorporate, as it was really an inquiry unit of it's own and we had a school inquiry that needed doing as well, however the kids really enjoyed and it walk around the school with their badges proudly on! A lot of it was a bit tricky for our Year 1s and they needed a lot of support. We also left out some of the activities as they couldn't achieve them. The Year 2s in our school did it too and said it was perfect for their age however, I think a bit of it was too sophisticated for our level!”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? We were able to theme our LTP for 4 weeks around the garden and supplement with many fine and gross motor skills activities and even co-operative and emotional stations. We were able to build our writing and reading programme around the planting and relat

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Writing experiences for the tamariki. I will be able to use the online resources for other learning themese through to next year. I love how they are free and that you can use them for other purposes. Especially our te reo Māori programme.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Their knowledge on food there are to eat. I think adding in real food and recipes would provide tamariki with the instant front loading and experiencing these products. Some have never seen or heard of some of our mst basic and common vegetables.

“I love all the resources provided to supplement and add to the story. Our new entrants really thrived on this. The card matching game is used most days in our class for action stations. The tamariki sometimes play for purpose or sometimes add their own flavour. We left the seeds until term 4 because of the amount of changes and new starts we had to the class but this proved more difficult than thought. So we would have run it earlier (in retrospect).”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? We wrote stories about how our plants were growing and used Jack and the Beanstalk as a big book for shared reading.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Parents sent in plants-watermelon and cabbage trees and we have planted the around the school. As a class we also planted a citrus grove comprising lemon, mandarin, lime and tangelo trees.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? We made a yummy pumpkin soup during last term as well as cooking a vegetable curry.

“My class loved looking after their wee plants. Each day they would come in and see if their plant had grown overnight:)”

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