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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Courting during Math and measurement of growth and time it takes for the different plants to grow. Science how plants need water, sun and air to grow.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Future learning is from process of growing the vegetables to product where we will be making our own vegetable soup form what we grew.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Our students do cooking on a regular basis and we always encourage the use of vegetables in the cooking process.

“Great selection of plants. The students will wear their pledge to the vege badges with pride.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Lots of oral language and literacy opportunities. As we do the bulk of our planning at the end of the previous term, it would be great to have the the kits and lesson resources even earlier. With the current schedule we have usually already done most of

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? This term our team will be focusing on NZ Native animals and caring for the environment. Will be able to make lots of links to the Little Garden project.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Students love eating things that they have grown and cared for themselves. As the plants will finish growing at home (we don't have a suitable spot in the school to grow them) I can't quite comment on successfulness yet.

“As we do the bulk of our planning at the end of the previous term, it would be great to have the the kits and lesson resources even earlier. With the current schedule we have usually already done most of our planning and then need to squeeze in the school kit activities. I would really like to be able to dedicate more time and energy to the school projects because they are so awesome.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Literacy, maths, health, technology, religious education, art

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Perseverance (school value) , art, health (continue new foods, gardening at school, cooking), re

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Keen to try new foods, tied the learning into school garden. So eating the Vegas from school garden that they have planted. Good home school links with family, kids doing gardens at home now too.

“Thanks really enjoyed working with the class on this kit! Lots of fun, great links to curriculum and easy to relate to real life learning and super easy to link to home learning!”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Examples include: Maths - measuring plants, rates of growth etc Literacy - Writing instructions, reading and researching their plant seedling, books and stories, code cracking, Oral language discussions, Te Reo - We played fruit salad for fitness each

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Will grow more plants in Term 4 in our classroom - daily observations, longer time frame etc Continue with our Edible Garden Programme - link to our cultural diversity inquiry about where plants and trees come from. Continue spending time in school gar

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? The kit linked in perfectly with our Edible Garden Programme that we run at Year 2 level. The kit supported children's knowledge of different plants that we grow in the garden. The card game also helped children to learn about all the different varieti

“Amazing resource that engaged every student. Made extra special with the badges, cards and seedling pots. Positive feedback from parents - received photos from parents of children gardening at home as well. Timing worked well. Students loved cracking the codes and working out the secret messages. Created a buzz every day with children coming in to observe, water and measure their plants. Thank you for this Resource.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Writing - stories about the different characters, writing instructions about how to plant seeds and look after seedlings. Reading - reading about seeds, vegetables. Science - growing seeds - what seeds need, noticing changes Maths - codes, measuring

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? It would have been great to have planted the seedlings into the school gardens (we sent them home as it was the school holidays) and continued looking after them and hopefully harvesting the vegetables and tasting them.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Students developed a greater understanding of where their fruit and vegetables came from. They were excited to be growing their own vegetables and to learn more about each of the vegetables.

“The children were so engaged with the Little Growers Secret Club, their pledge, the badges, receiving their own seed to grow, the codes. They could not wait to receive their next message or secret code to decipher. The children loved having their own seedling to look after. There was so much learning that could be linked to the kit - reading, writing, maths, science etc.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Cracking codes and reading them them with their reading buddy. Writing about their experience of planting and about which vegetables were growing the fastest. Linked it into our digital learning and some students made acrostic name vegetable posters using

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Great link to our current garden to table programme and encouraging them to be brave and try new vegetables they haven't tried before.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? They loved the naming vegetables game and were all keen to try new vegetables during our garden to table programme - kale and carrot chips were very popular!

“This school kit was great! The kids loved planting their seeds and watching the plants grow. They enjoyed cracking the codes each week too. Such a great link in with our garden to table programme too.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Reading and writing - solving mystery messages, written recounts, labelling, reading on topic Oral language - conversations on topic, exploring and extending vocabulary Maths - initial measuring of water to moisten the soil pod, observations, estimation

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Maths - time &; temperature (cooking) in relation to ";garden to table"; Coding and solving puzzles Reading &; writing - recipes, how to..., labels, letters, menu boards, observational drawings &; notes

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Learning about new vegetables Focusing on favourite vegetables Willingness to try new vegetables Exploring different foods/ recipes using vegetables Increased confidence talking about healthy eating

“The little garden kit has been an amazing resource for my Y0-Y1 class. They have enjoyed getting their hands dirty to plant the seeds and have especially loved watching the plants sprout and grow. Having the added excitement of passing a little test and posting a form into the little mailbox to become a member of the league was a great touch. They have proudly sported their membership badges and looked after their membership cards so that they could solve the mystery messages. Their conversations have been that much more rich and meaningful through their experiences that were enhanced by having the little garden kit in the classroom. Thank you so much for making this resource available for free. We really appreciate it!”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? We were able go compare the different heights of the plants linking to maths. For writing we wrote about the steps that needed to be followed to ensure we were looking after our plants correctly.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Using these vegetables in cooking, how to prepare and measure out the correct amount of vegetables for a meal.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? They became aware of the variety of vegetables available and the importance of eating vegetables each day.

“My students and myself LOVED our little league garden kit! We really enjoyed being able to plan our own vegetables and herbs and watching them grow. We were very interested by mint as lots of us had never tried it. This got the students talking and trying new vegetables at home, then coming to school the next day excited to tell me what they thought about the flavour.”

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