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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Maths - measurement, time Science - Plant structures, needs English - Describing Senses, writing form the point of view of the plant (needs)

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Possibility of creating a school garden Ongoing planting and trying of new veges etc

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Being able to taste some veges and herbs and then wait for them to grow themselves at school and then eventually at home has promoted the healthiness and also environmental knowledge of all my learners - no plastic wrappers

“All students were fully engaged in this unit, we tasted 8 different veges and herbs that were growing with our LGL kit which promoted the excitement of waiting for our plants to sprout and then take them home to plant them.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Wonderful for cross-curricular learning, we did gardening and learnt about planting. Lots of art and writing opportunities as well. See photos. My class also became fascinated with Pitcher plants and Venus fly traps which I will continue on with next term

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? It sparked a real interest in gardening and lifecycles which has directed our inquiry for T4 towards ecology and an invertebrates focus.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? The area I teach in is fairly wealthy and most children knew their vegetables and had tried them. The timing of the kit didn't work for us. It needed to be at the start of the term so that we could plant them and then watch them grow and then eat them. We

“I loved using the kit. My year 2 class were more interested in the growing process and lifecycle of a plant so I used the kit to teach them about parts of a plant. The arrival of the kit meant that we didn't get to plant them in our enviro garden. It would be best if they were sent out at the start of a term so you have 10 weeks to learn about the whole process.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? We looked into different types of books of seeds and how they grow. This also made the kids interested in why plants grow how they get everywhere. Even led to life cycles of butterflies.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? As a school we are getting new planter boxes outside of our classrooms. We are waiting for after the holiday to plant all our seedlings. This is going to give us great teaching opportunities with how to care for plants, work out the right about of water/s

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Our class Learnt that there was more than one type of vegetable. They learnt all the names of the LGL and were excited to watch their own plant grow. There was a lot of talk around what is our favourite vegetable and would we try something new. Most said

“This was an amazing resource to use with the children. They were all so excited to see the LGL club house and write letters to the members to help complete our little garden. Every day they looked in the letter box hoping for a new delivery or code to solve. The package contained everything we needed and more. It was nice to have a few spare plants incase a child accidentally broke their pot. We were quite lucky that we had all 24 seedlings as I know some others were missing a few.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Our school wide topic was ‘change’. Growing a plant and sharing how it changes over time Linked in nicely to our topic.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? The idea of maybe being able To set Up our Own school gardens at some stage.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? The children were excited to set themselves a challenge to eat something new and grow their own plants.

“This was a great resource. The children loved the mystery behind it and were so proud of themselves being accepted into the Little Garden League.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Writing and reading.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Seeing the vegetables grow &; nurturing them.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? We eat the produce from our school vegetable gardens.

“Our tamariki at James Street School love growing vegetables.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Our unit this term was horticulture

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Continued horticulture and agriculrure learning in line with our school vision

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Understanding of some more obscure veges...eg kale and capsicum

“I loved it..the kids loved seeing the plants grow quickly”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Graphing growth of plants. Looking for recipes to use vegetables. Reading about the new plants.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? We are looking forward to cooking with our vegetables. We will look at grouping vegetables into families.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? The plants are still tiny so no tasting yet but we have talked about the plants we are willing to try when they grow.

“My class are enjoying watching the seeds grow.They like checking which ones are faster growing. We have discussed the tools needed to plant the garden. We are graphing our favourite vegetables and researching ones we don’t know.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? We read a range of texts that were related to vegetables, gardens and seeds during our Reading (Literacy) lessons. We also were able to link this kit to our writing as we wrote descriptive texts about vegetables.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? My learners now want to play more seeds and they also want to try and make some meals that have vegetables.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? This kit enabled my learners to talk more about vegetables and what vegetables they eat home and also vegetables that they had never heard of before. It made my learners more open to trying new vegetables and being brave! This was shown when we created sa

“Thank you School Kit, for sending a fantastic kit that my kids throughly enjoyed learning about. I loved that the kit allowed for our learners to do some hands on learning. We learnt a lot about how to protect our vegetables, grow our vegetables and we even got to taste a range of vegetables. A great kit to promote healthy eating!”

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