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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Literacy - research - summarising / information report writing / explanations / Jack and the Beanstalk etc Maths - Statistics Investigations, Problem Solving cooperative groups, Visual Art Oral Language

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? As above

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? The students were more willing to taste something that they had grown - and in many cases surprised themselves with what they actually liked! We are planning to take the healthy eating aspect further this term.

“What a great learning context for a kit!! Motivation has been and continues to be very high and the students are also following up their interest at home with Little Gardens. The idea of a club with a motto was a definite hook in for all students and solving the coded messages each week was a highlight - the students all felt a sense of responsibility to Grow, Protect and Taste as well as spread this message to others.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Measurement, Science, Art, writing, reading!

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? We have some art lessons planned and more planting to be done.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Increased awareness of a larger variety of vegetables and fruits. Made kids aware of how to take care of their own plants.

“Our year 3-4 class loved learning about plants and planting their own little garden seedlings. The activities that came with the kit were age appropriate and fun. The students especially loved posting their letters and recieving their membership badege. A lot of our badges broke which was a tad prickly. Overall this was an excellent kit to have recieved.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? The kit was a starting point to promote Health and Exercise, Science concepts as well as introducing our 5 year olds to our school gardens and the promotion of a community of gardeners and sharing produce. We produced art works and learnt how to observe c

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Further Science investigations and delving further into keeping healthy and happy. We have the Life Eduction Trust (Harold) coming in 3 week to further promote thinking and learning about being Healthy and Happy. The tamariki have decided they want to g

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? They talk about what is in their lunch boxes and they are able to categorise healthy options and sometimes options.

“Fantastic resource for my young 5 year olds. Their interest was captured by the hands on activities and resources (especially their own badges). They were inspired to ask many questions and we investigated the answers. The links on the page were appropriate and the tamariki loved them.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Measuring the growth of plants, literacy for explaining the lifecycle of plants and the process of growing a plant.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? We have done some mini-inquiries into how plants actually grow, how compost works, and why we need to eat vegetables. We will be doing more on the lifecycle term 4.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Learning about and trying new vegetables helped kids learn about different vegetables, as well as promoting a positive view of vegetables and healthy eating.

“As we have a fledgling gardening club at school, this kit really promoted an interest and love of the plant lifecycle. Kids marvelled at how their seeds actually grew, and we have transplanted these in to the school garden. The kids loved discussing their favourite vegetables, and through trying some new vegetables, we now all (mostly) love spinach the best.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Science - The living world.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Maybe some resources around healthy lunch eating.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Wanting to grow veges. Not sure they were as encouraged to try new foods, but more on growing the veges.

“So good to encourage the kids to try new things and watch them excited to grow veges!”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? These experiences are truly real life, close to their hearts and families...offer opportunities in Maths, The Arts, Health, Science and writing

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? We are taking our learning into Term 4 with continuing efforts in our school gardens with planting...we have got our families collecting for us...some children are doing this at home as well,...it is a life skill all children need to learn - to understand

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Children understand the importance of vegetables in their nutritional needs and how important it is to try something new - or even re-visiting things they may not have liked in the past - we made things like pumpkin muffins and they all ate them!

“Children loved the kit, loved the secrecy...the Secret League and Codes - they felt special as we were the only class doing this...Loved the growing/ watching/looking after/measuring... we will continue on into Term 4”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? We used the kit as a prompt for writing on several days, we talked about time and measurement as the seedlings grew. The code crackers also fitted nicely into our phonics program as it is another way of decoding the alphabet.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? through the kit, we started talking about being brave and taking a leap of faith to try new things.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? The kit helped to encourage students to try new vegetables. I had students that had never tried any of the 24 seedlings and were adamant they were not going to. By the end, they had tried a large variety and decided they liked many of them.

“I found the pack was very well thought out, the students found it very engaging and were encouraged to try new things. The code crackers led into some great discussions with students excited to make up their own new codes with their own key. All of my students tried at least one new vegetable despite hesitation at the introduction of the kit.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? The kit is a great cross curricular tool, hangarau, putaiao, tuhituhi, pangarau, pānui me toi ataata. Loved this aspect.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Hangarau; making recyclable self watering plant pots, Putaiao; life cycle of a plant, tuhituhi; filling in forms, sequential writing, writing instructions..., pānui; reading instructions and much more.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Many tamariki in our kura have home maara, so they already knew a lot about healthy eating, fresh organic kai. For those that do not have home gardens and do not really eat many fresh veg, it was great to hear they were trying and wanted their whanau to

“TINO NUI TE PAI, TE RAUEMI O TE MAARA NEI. what an amazing and such engaging resource. the tamariki were totally in awe of it all and such great prior knowledge and making connections with home school life where gardening tips and cariing for the environment, and healthy eating were the hot topic in our class. thank you so very much. All tamariki got to take home a wee seedling to care for ove the holidays, I can't wait to hear and see all the feedback.”

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