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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Maths - Counting the the plants, measuring their growth Writing - Writing letters, describing the plants growing, cracking codes Science - Living World

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? We plan on cooking the veges we grow. Children gained general life skills around growing and cooking our own food.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? The kit generated an interest in growing veges with will lead to an interest in trying to eat veges children haven't had before. Children became more aware of different veges - they had funny names too.

“The Kit is a great idea and is well put together. Children found it exciting to belong to a club and cracking codes. It was so exciting when the seeds started growing.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Gosh, where to start. This learning experience crossed over into so many different curriculums. Reading, Writing, Maths, Science, Music. We even had students using drama to portray how a seed grows. Very cute!

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? The options are limitless. We now want to create our own vege gardens at home and school using the seedlings from New World.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? It got kids excited and talking about the veges they love and different ways they eat and enjoy them!

“My Year 2 class absolutely loved the Little Garden League kit sponsored by New World. Growing seedlings and promoting healthy eating caused much fun and excitement in the classroom! Thanks New World for allowing School Kit to create these awesome kits.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Letter writing: following a format to write a letter to LGL as an application. Reading: we intergrated all our weeks reading books to be about plants and vegetables. Art: we painted plants. Science: we studied compost and got an expert in to help[ with th

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Composting, using the microscope, learning about our school garden.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? As the plants hadn't grown to the eating stage, kids didn't actually try new vegetables. That is something I could do as an extra however. They learnt the names of a few new vegetables, and may now consider trying them.

“This fittted in with our class writing and reading programme beautifully. It also helped us prepare for our upcoming pets day / ag day. Awesome that there was enough plants for one per child. Kids loved the coded clues to decipher, and the free badges. They felt like they were part of something”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? We transferred our new knowledge into writing and publishing and also within the arts. My tamariki were so excited to publish their stories to take home for weekend reading :) Term 4 we will be looking at some science experiments where I will take in some

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Each child took home, for the holidays, one of the vegetable pots. After the holidays our unit will move to healthy lunch boxes and how we can incorporate vegetables within our daily lunches. Within our Matariki studies for 2021 I will be looking at intro

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Student awareness grew within nutrition and healthy eating as they were able to physically touch and view the process of growing your own food. We discussed/researched all the benefits of this. Also we had a parent come in and discuss the difference betwe

“Thank you so much for this fabulous opportunity for my tamariki within my classroom to experience 'growing vegetables'. They loved the excitement of what may be in the box and then the fun of planting our seeds. We spent two weeks exploring the benefits of growing our own food and then utilised this within our writing, reading and art projects. I teach 5 year olds and they were all fully engaged and excited with this project. Thank you again.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? We wrote poems about vegetables. We measured our seedlings and graphed them. We solved the codes and will be writing our own codes next term. We learnt about the different parts of plants, what they are called, how plants germinate and grow. We will be co

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? We got the school garden up and running again after a couple of years of not having one. Learnt how to plant seeds and will be learning how to plant seedlings into the garden next term. Also will be learning how to prepare vegetables to eat in a variety o

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Improved their knowledge of different types of vegetables. They were asking for more veges in their lunchboxes so they could compare their vegetable to the seedling. We will continue to build on this next term when we do some cooking with vegetables.

“This was an amazing kit, had the children hooked from the start! They loved the idea of a secret league and having to apply to be members. The badges, are proudly worn on their school hats. Lots of discussions about vegetables, growing techniques, whose plant was growing fastest. They loved referring to the chart to see how long seeds took to sprout and be ready to eat. We will be continuing this kit next term, planting our seedlings in our school garden. The resources were great, the children enjoyed the letterbox and the codes were a huge hit. Our senior class enjoyed coming in each morning to see how the plants were growing and our class loved telling them about it. We are looking forward to cooking next term with some of our veges when they are ready. I was amazed by the vegetables that children weren't familiar with. We are going to have some interesting taste testing when our veges are ready! Now I just need to keep them alive through the holidays thanks very much for such an awesome kit.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Loved this as we did a mini inquiry based on vegetables and seeds. We did lots of literacy based activities on it.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? We are doing an engineering inquiry in Term 4. The students are going to use the garden and vegetable growing to inspire their engineering questions and ideas.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? We had great discussions based off of this resource. It was great to investigate what veges we had tried.

“Absolutely loved using this kit. The students were amazed and fascinated by all the planting and they enjoyed cracking codes. Also loved all the other resources that had been collated - Spotify playlist, videos etc.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? My kids loved cracking the codes - and were keen to design and write their own codes. We also used the vegetables to write persuasive writing pieces, which is better, which Miss Wills should never cook with her class again, why I should be allowed to be a

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? We are about to start our term in Garden to Table at our school so this led perfectly into this. The kids have learnt the names of vegetables that they hadn't had much contact with before (everything they didn't know was a cabbage to start with!!).

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? My kids were willing, and eager to try new foods - we made Kale chips, broccoli chips and beetroot sandwiches - all new foods for my kids. And while the sandwiches weren't a hit, they at least were willing to try them because they had seen the process (an

“School Kit has done it again with another engaging kit. My Year 2/3 students loved learning the names of the new vegetables that they had never heard of, and even better WANTED to taste them. Our seedlings have been transplanted for our wonderful caretaker to look after over the term break before we plant them in our school garden as part of our Garden to Table term - what amazing timing and perfect way to get the kids even more excited (if that could have even be possible). Thanks again for the Kit, School Kit and New World.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Literacy - codes, oral language

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Art- based on fruit / veggies Maths - Graphing - favourite veggies - eaten daily etc

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Learners were actively engaged with growing little gardens and discussing the different vegetables, what they have tried or not. There were children coming to school saying they had tried a new vegetable,

“The children were so excited to see they had little garnet in class. They took ownership of watering and monitoring these daily, taking ownership.”

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