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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Lots of opportunities for learning about biodiversity

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Lots of opportunities for future learning around being kaitiaki, living things, biodiversity.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Nice to learn about the wide range of fruit and vegetables out there!

“We have really enjoyed our Little Gardens in class! Tamariki took good ownership of their plants, enjoyed the activities and were keen to see them grow. It was so neat that the packs arrived at school! Makes life that bit easier in terms of organisation and planning. What a great resource, thank you!”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? We used it to link into our writing and reading programmes. We also have a new school garden that links nicely in. Next term we are looking school wide at sustainability so this is a great intro into it for our students.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? See note above about sustainability unit

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? The students learnt about new vegetables and we tried some different ones in class together. They could recognize a lot more vegetables by the end of our learning compared to the start.

“WOW! What an amazing resource for our class. Our students loved learning a out the different plants and how long it takes for the to sprout. The pledge, badges, mystery codes really hooked them in and they just wanted to learn more and share their learning with others. The website was a great resource for teachers and we used the stories and songs that were linked here. Thank you so much for providing these kits to us and also making them free of charge. Each of our students took home their seedling and are very keen to start their own garden at home. Most of them were also collecting them at home.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? technology - designed our new classroom garden beds

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Using our school values along with The health curriculum on healthy eating by grand preparing our food and caring for our body.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? We have this as the focus for the beginning of term four. I have a classroom display for seeds from packet to table. We will be growing a variety of foods for them to eat

“My class are hooked on the idea of growing their own little garden. We completed this in class and I appreciated having enough plants for each of my students. Each germinated except one. On the last day of the term I bagged them up for each student to take home. Thank you for kick starting the love of growing your own food fit my students”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Huge links to science and how seeds grow into plants. Wonderful for maths counting the days it takes for the seeds to germinate.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? It has introduced healthy eating and the growth of plants and nuturing of plants beautifully. Perhaps it has encouraged family gardening. My children knew very little about plants and seeds, and the experience of planting each seed container out was hugel

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? It has certainly highlighted what vegies are, and has encouraged pupils to think about eating vegies as a positive food choice.

“The kids really loved the letterbox idea and enjoyed the ";fun"; interview to become a member of the Little Garden League. I teach Year 0-1 and the little videos were engaging, however the codes were too long and tricky for them. Planting and watching the seeds grow has been very engaging, and has promoted great curiosity for how plants grow.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? The planting of the seeds linked nicely with our maths strand volume and capacity as well as measurement as students had to use 50 mls initially added to the soil. Also linked to our procedural writing as students wrote instructions as to how to plant and

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Sustainability.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Kit didn’t really promote healthy eating or nutrition. Focus was on planting and what seeds, seedlings and plants need in order to grow.

“Students were excited to receive their own little pot with seeds and were familiar with the little gardens from the previous New World promotion. The students were keen to look after their plants to ensure they survived.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? cracking the codes for literacy. talking about and learning what some of the unknown vegetables were finding books in the library and reading them (the hungry caterpillar) two groups read Greedy Cat which they buddy read with others.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? some of the clips will be used again next year for our learning (carrots in winter) Now that I've done this process, I will use the ideas from this resource again. I will incorporate it into seasons, and what grows at different times of the year. we did

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? I think that once our students are able to eat what they've been growing there will be more awareness and willingness to try new things to eat that are healthy.

“Great resource. The kids loved sowing their seeds and watching them grow - which they did very, very quickly so that made it way more exciting.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Loved being able to integrate this with our Wa Kitea program and how the kit covered digital technology following steps (algorithms), literacy Reading and writing (loved the code cracking), Maths (measuring the plants as they grew) Art getting creative an

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? This will now be a stepping stone to exploring healthy eating more and these experiences were authentic to the kids so they will now have many great memories and will remember more. It also links well with other school programs we have running here alread

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? We managed to have many great conversations about what we should be eating lots of and why we should be. Many kids were inspired to share their ways they eat their favourite vegetables which also inspired others to try things out.

“We loved this little garden league kit. Thanks new world for sponsoring it. It allowed us to facilitate many great discussions about the importance of vegetables and how they are good for us. Thank you school kit again for another amazing resource which had a great selection of activities that we could choose from and integrate with what we were doing in class. We managed to integrate it with our space theme where the kids looked at how the astronauts in the international space station are experimenting with growing fresh vegetables in space. Which lead beautifully to what plants need to grow. We loved watching our plants grow and looking after them. Having the little garden league club was a great way to hook them all in. And we had fun doing the code cracking and taste testing through fear factor. It even sparked a huge interest with my own children who enjoyed the behind the scenes planning and are hooked too.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? In many ways! The students did a lot of talking, listening and writing about plants, what plants need to thrive, how to look after plants, what happens when a seed is planted and how plants are good for people and their health.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? We will plant some of our plants from the kit in our school garden. At the school we have a Garden Club and we hope that we can make food from 'garden to table' in Term 4 integrating this with food technology involving the Senior School as well.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? The students were curious to find out what type of new foods every one had tried. They enjoyed all the creative ways others ate vegetables they don't necessarily like eating and even expressing they would try it that way too. e.g. tomato soup was now 'spi

“The Little Garden League Kit was just brilliant! It couldn't have been more suitable for our inquiry topic this last term 'Looking After'. Our Junior class (yr 0-3) studied how and why we look after people, pets and plants. We covered looking after plants at around the same time the kit arrived at school. By that time, we had already started the germination process of broad beans in our classroom. And now that the little garden plants are also available at the supermarkets, the students are really enjoying how this inquiry has made connections between school and their home life. In particular, the kids enjoyed the application letter and tasks to be part of the league, the pledge and the badges. It was almost like assembly time; so official and important! The students have been following the growth of the little plants with a weekly growth diary. The students enjoyed classifying healthy foods from not so healthy foods and how this also linked to looking after ourselves. Coincidently, we had a Colgate Tooth pack to hand out and discuss alongside it. The kit has been the topic of our students' daily conversations, writing, art and maths (measurement). A very successful kit, thank you!”

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