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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? As this was the end of term I used this kit as a stand alone

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Cooking

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Willingness to try vegetables in our provided school lunches

“Really motivating for the students. They loved the kit and were excited as they had seen the little gardens at new world before”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Maths-measuring growth Knowing colours/ shapes Lots of oral language Using ICT to record and talk about plants/ growth and vegetables

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Tasting veges, caring for plants, gardening, having healthy lunch boxes,

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? As the children are only 5 and 6 year olds they have learnt the names of and been enthusiastic about finding out about veges and plants. They will be more aware of nuitrition and healthy eating as we progress through the term.

“Loved the kit and the fabulous introduction activities. The kids loved making the treehouse, belonging to the Little League club and growing the new world pots. Healthy eating is our topic this term so the promotion has been a useful resource. The children have been finding out the names of vegetables and fruits. We have a visit from the Life Education caravan as well and hopefully the little garden plants will be ready for tasting before the end of the year.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? This kit worked really well with our learning through play environment. It was easy to incorporate our little garden learning into the play kitchen!

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? We are looking forward to seeing what the children do next with our garden!

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? We haven’t eaten our vegetables yet.. they are still growing. When we get to tasting our crop I think this will really help with student awareness of healthy eating and nutrition.

“The kids loved cracking the code, planting and caring for our vegetables. It was so nice that our local New World came and delivered our own vegetable garden. We have this right outside our classroom so the learning can happen all the time. We can’t wait to taste our crop!”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Tied into the following curriculums: - Inquiry of responsibility - which is one of our schools core values and well as healthy eating, writing. - Procedural writing - Writing the steps of how to take care of your plants. - Spelling -Spelling the veget

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? - Continuing growth in their own (home) communities, seeing what vegetables they could raise. - Cooking - what are different ways they could cook their vegetables.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? - Being able to identify more vegetables than what they started. - Seeing others try different vegetables gave other students the confidence to try vegetables they haven't tasted or maybe previously disliked. - Talking about the nutrients that vegetabl

“This was such an excellent project to engage my learners to understand the concept of how our vegetables grow and encourage healthy foods. Prior to starting this topic I had no students that we able to identify all of the vegetables. I now have 25 confident students who are able to recognise different vegetables at full maturity. I loved how hands on this project was and gave each student an opportunity to feel some sort of ownership over this project by growing their own plant, putting in their applications to become members, receiving their LGL badges and the weekly code crackers were an absolute hit. This project has linked beautifully into our inquiry of responsibility. My kids have been buzzing and are so excited to plant these in our school garden in the next few weeks. Thankyou Schoolkit and New World on behalf of Room 20!”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Maths - measuring and recording growth Science - Soil health with ph levels and nitrates English - reading and writing about the plants

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? We plan on transferring the plants into a school garden.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Some students have asked their parents to try some of the new vegetables from the kit at home.

“The children really loved having plants grow inside the class and are excited to try some of the vegetables that they haven't had before. They loved recoding the growth and looking after the plants, as well as, learning about how to grow plants. They found the club aspect of the kit to be upsetting as more students wanted to join than there were places and this upset some so we had to cancel this part. The secret messages were also not very interesting to the students after the first one.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? science and health and well-being

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? To teach a top of Inquiry on plants and plant growth in line with the NZ curriculum in the future.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Healthy eating and nutrition are often topics of discussion in class, even though it may not have been a learning focus this year. It is also in line with our school initiative to maintain a school garden. Skills gained at this age are valuable well into

“I'm a great fan of the Little Garden League Kit initiative and I believe that teaching children about the joys of gardening, growing food and flowers just for the joy of it, is a very valuable thing.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Our class looked at how vegetables grow and looked at the things that they need. We also had to do writing, so we could join the league, we had to decode the secret code. We measured the seedlings and saw how much they had grown.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? In the future learning we have got some food activities in mind. We are going to link this into the community hangi that is going to be happening next term. Some of the extra seedlings will be used to plant vegetables that will be used in the hangi, givin

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? They students were great at looking at the different vegetables. They learnt some different things about some new vegetables. This kit opened up talk about how healthy things were and how things grow. We never knew that some of those plants were edi

“What an awesome idea. The kids absolutely loved the fact they were planting little gardens. They also loved the secret codes that we were sent. New World Waitaki were great and we got a little garden brought to us by the owners. Unfortunately we planted out seedlings too early and some of them have not survived but this has opened up the children to get their parents to to go NW and get their own little gardens. The looks on their faces when they first sprouted was so good.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? We explored many areas of Literacy (reading, phonics and writing), Numeracy (counting days and weeks, measuring water and soil), Science (life cycle of plants) and technology (making pots for our vegetables to sit it).

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? We started to look more into where our food from the super market comes from (farms/ not just the shops), then we looked at insect life cycles and we do want to look at creating our very own school garden.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? This helped my 5 year olds understand that vegetables actually taste yummy and that they can be used in different recipes (not just eaten on their own).

“My classroom and myself absolutely LOVED this School Kit. They were so intrigued and everyday were ready to learn some more. The kit was so helpful and supported my teaching in every-way possible.”

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