How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Linked to our inquiry, health, P.E, reading about different vegetables, sharing stories, writing, maths graphing.

How successful was this kit in building student recognition of vegetables?

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In what ways has this kit improved student awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Students can share different recipes they want to try.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Massive increase in amount they knew and could recognise.

“Kids loved the mystery element around this as well as planting and taking care of their own seed. Students now know lots more about vegetables than they did before.”

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Posted 2 years ago

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Great cross-curricular learning between English, Learning languages (Te reo Maori), Science and Health

How successful was this kit in building student recognition of vegetables?

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy eating in your classroom?

In what ways has this kit improved student awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? First of all healthy eating was improved by the students learning a greater range of available vegetables, we hold a daily healthy munch and I started to see vegetables such as carrot or celery being brought along too. This has been a fantastic kit for te

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Some of the children had not heard of some of the vegetables so we did some further research on our cromebooks and we are going to have a tasting party next term.

“Miro Room Children have really enjoyed planting and caring for their plants. They have been keen to help with watering and the vege patch match is fun! The children are all interested in learning the Te Reo names of the veges and have gone on to create a menu in Te reo. Our badges arrived today and all have pledged their allegiance to the vege!”

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Posted 2 years ago

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Maths decoding, writing about the planting, health about what our bodies need, Reading the stories and info.

How successful was this kit in building student recognition of vegetables?

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy eating in your classroom?

In what ways has this kit improved student awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Growing vegetables and eating them with their peers alway makes them more open to trying new things even if it's just a bite. Discussions about 5 plus a day etc and healthy bodies and what we need that often gets missed out in a busy curriculum.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? They learnt what the seeds, seedlings and full grown plant for each vege look like. Many they didn't know or havent grown before.

“The tamariki really enjoyed the code cracking and planting and looking after the seedlings. It was pitched to the perfect level for my year 2 and 3 class.”

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Posted 2 years ago

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? We used the amount of vegetables for statistics, we based our reading programme around vegetables too with texts about gardens.

How successful was this kit in building student recognition of vegetables?

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy eating in your classroom?

In what ways has this kit improved student awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? The children were introduced to vegetables they had not heard of before.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? The children were introduced to vegetables they had not heard of before. They enjoyed the surprise of seeing what the vegetables looked like.

“Thank you for providing such a wonderful kit. The children have LOVED making up the seedling kits and watching these grow. The extra resources have been wonderful too. As I have done this with a New Entrant class, the code cracking/envelopes were not able to be done independently. Thanks again.”

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Posted 2 years ago

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? We wrote stories and make artworks.

How successful was this kit in building student recognition of vegetables?

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy eating in your classroom?

In what ways has this kit improved student awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? This unit has encouraged healthy eating.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? The children knew what most of the vegetables were but didn't know the herbs and loved that they were growing popcorn.

“The children in my class (new entrants) loved planting the mini gardens. They were excited to open them and loved having turns at watering them and watching them grow.”

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Posted 2 years ago

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Measurement - we discussed area/perimeter needed for planting the little gardens into a pot. We monitored the growth of the seedlings. Writing - We took photos and wrote about the experience of planting.

How successful was this kit in building student recognition of vegetables?

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy eating in your classroom?

In what ways has this kit improved student awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? They are more excited to try different things and understand the importance of healthy eating.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Children have been exposed to a much bigger range of vegetables. Children are excited to grow and eat what they have planted.

“Children loved the hands on experience of planting the little garden pots.”

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Posted 2 years ago

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? We used the kit to extend our te reo around asking questions about who has what vegetable and what is the vegetable. We also used it for maths as we had been looking at arrays for multiplication and division so designing gardens with planting rows was a r

How successful was this kit in building student recognition of vegetables?

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy eating in your classroom?

In what ways has this kit improved student awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Through discussions with the students they have built up a much bigger nderstanding about why we should nourish our bodies and eat healty food like veggies. Lots of students stared talking about and bringing in chopped raw veggies as a brain food snack an

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? The kit was a really useful tool to expand students knowledge of vegetables and herbs - lots of the students didn't know what some of the veggies and herbs were so were interested in learning more and finding out how to cook and eat them.

“The little Garden kit was awesome! My class were excited from the moment it arrived and were keen to get going as soon as possible. They were all asking questions about who would have which pot and sparked many conversations about favourite vegetables and who grew veggies at home. They have taken great care in looking after, watering and watching their pots as they have grown and were so pleased to transplant them into bigger pots. Overall..a really engaging kit.”

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Posted 2 years ago

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? We have taken the theme "plant systems" and used it in literacy, numeracy, science, art, STEAM, as well as prt of our play-based curriculum.

How successful was this kit in building student recognition of vegetables?

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy eating in your classroom?

In what ways has this kit improved student awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? It has encouraged our tamariki to bring more vegetables into their lunchboxes!

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? I'm sure as the plants continue to grow, we will get some genuine understanding of what vegetables look like and how they grow.

“We have thoroughly enjoyed using the resources you have kindly donated to us to explore plant systems in my play-based year 1 classroom. We have made a role-play cafe, made models of plants with up cycled materials, looked at how insects, humans and plants work together in a system in our science, used literature to promote reading and writing around the topic, measured and compared growth in our maths, and have made a beautiful garden out of pallets to house our growing garden and observational artwork has been blossoming almost as much as the plants themselves! Ngā mini Nui!”

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Posted 2 years ago

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