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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Counting Reading Writing Science Social Studies Health and PE

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Term 4 we will grow more of the seedlings. and we will track the seedlings that went home over the term break using the Seesaw app. Using code breakers Discussing digestion and food choices

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Children are making the link with the seedlings and the food on their plates at home. We will be doing more tasting next term.

“Following Alert Level 3 the children were slow to return to school. The excitement of this kit has linked the children back into the classroom. The growing seedings have created interest in the class. The set of books that we found in the library allowed us to extend our knowledge of vegetables and growing plants. The code cracking that I had thought would be too difficult for the lower children was meet with enthusiasm and perseverance. I will be giving them more code cracking tasks next term.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Health - healthy eating. Science - the growing of the plants. Literacy - writing their plant diaries. Reading - reading journal stories that are connected with the growing of their plants. Maths - measuring how much they had grown.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? We have a gardening club at school and a couple of teachers have their own little planters. It would be a great idea if we could get planters of fresh herbs that the children could eat.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? They were very excited about being able to eat their plants - many children have posted photos on our class dojo, showing how much care they are taking of them.

“I had a student teacher in my class for almost the whole of Term 3 - she did an amazing job of inspiring the children to join the little garden club, write their applications etc. All the children were very excited. This linked in well with our topic of life cycles, and my student teacher focused on the life cycles of plants. The children took their plants home and wrote a plant diary about how their plants were doing.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? We integrated in writing through writing about the founding members and recounts of what we did in class as we setup our clubhouse. We also covered science through looking at plants and how they grow. As we are a Catholic school we also incorporated and r

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Growing their own food and wanting to learn to cook for themselves and others.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? They have become more aware of a wider range of vegetables and herbs. They are excited to bring in vegetable snacks as part of their brain break options.

“The unit was fantastic, the children loved being part of a 'secret' and took this idea very seriously. They loved the story behind the members and how they were taking on a responsibility to teach others. They especially loved learning about vegetables and herbs and many didn't know more than a few basic vegetables. Over the course of the unit they learnt more about vegetables and plants and tried lots of new vegetables in class with their friends.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? We were able to write, read and go outside!

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? We are so excited to plant, nurture and then eat our vegetables! Using vegetables in baking is going to be exciting!

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Students would come up to me and tell me which new vegetable they tried at dinner the night before!

“Absolutely LOVED this Kit! favourite so far! So much buy in from students - they really were captivated!”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? This was so easy because we could take it in all sorts of directions. We were able to measure and compare the sizes of plants. Lots of writing prompts and oral language opportunities. Art ideas and of course the healthy eating etc.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? We are looking forward to harvesting our plants and cooking something for us all to try and eat.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? They have learnt about vegatbles that some children had never heard of. Planting their own has openend their eyes to possibly giving more thing a go.

“This has been fantastic learning for my new entrant/year one class and had so many opportunities to branch of into different directions. The plants were nice and easy to plant with a young ag group of children. We built a lot of oral language from all the videos on your site and the badges were a fantastic touch for our little ones. We are one of the school getting the free lunches next term so this was great to incorporate into what we were doing. Lots of talk about healthy foods and what we can make with the plants what we are growing. We are looking forward to continue to see our plants grow. Thank you!”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? We were able to transfer this into maths, reading, writing.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Integrating into science, social science.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Most discovered new vegetables.

“The setup was time consuming mainly the box cutting of the mailbox. The plants were great.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Prior to opening the kit we linked in the 5plus a day website and followed the lessons plans there. Kaitiakitanga - Learning to take care of our plants and environment through being protectors Writing- Recount of them planting their seed Science - Ger

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Once the seedlings started to grow and were ready for a new pot they were given their plant to take home and take care of.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Learning about new vegetables Wanting to try new vegetables Learning about why it is important to eat 5plus a day vegetables and fruit We found books in our library that helped to grow our awareness of they different types of mara kai.

“My tamariki in my akomanga LOVED the build up to what is in the box? Our inquiry is Change therefore this was complimentary to that learning. Capturing their excitement and willingness to learn about the life cycle of a plant brought out loads of discussion. We have a school garden so learning about how to care for our mara kai and being kaitiaki of papatuanuku helped the children to understand why it is important to care for her. We will continue to look at healthy eating and how we could prepare our mara kai for this in term 4.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? We created art works of sunflowers that we are growing. We measured the growth of our plants. We learnt scientific language around growing and cooking. They researched a vegetable and presented a poster that included information such as how long it took t

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? We will continue to grow some vegetables in our class vegetable garden and try new healthy ways of eating them in term 4.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? They have learnt new and different vegetables and the parts that you eat from different vegetables. They have given some new vegetables a try such as some micro greens we grew and kale chips. They have all looked forward to growing their own food at home

“Room 9 have thoroughly enjoyed the growing of their little gardens and checked on their plants everyday. They were so into growing that we also grew sunflowers and did another set of little garden plants that were donated by other teachers in our school. The children have learnt new vocabulary around how plants grow and learnt some new vegetables and tasted some new vegetables - we made kale chips at the end of the term. It has given the class something to look forward to each day. They loved cracking the code and made their own codes. They enjoyed the vegetables having characters.”

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