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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? We used this as a motivation for Writing, Read about taking care of plants, and used the plants as a context for rich tasks in Maths.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Opportunity for children to grow their own plants, educate others about healthy eating.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? The discussions around vegetables and the fact that they were growing their own, encouraged some children to bring more vegetables and fruit in their school lunches. Some children came to school and talked about the vegetables they had at dinner time and

“Thank you for providing Team 13 at College Street Normal School with a Little Garden kit. The children were so excited to become a LGL Member and learnt lots about growing plants and the different types of herbs and vegetables. Our LGL members loved growing their plants and took their job of caring for their plant very seriously! It was a great day when their plants showed started sprouting!! The card game was great fun and provoked a lot of discussion and was an excellent way for children to be prompted to share their prior knowledge and experiences. We really enjoyed growing our little gardens and now we are looking forward to potting them and hopefully eating them!”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? We had a unit going called ";Lets Dig it!"; All about plants and growing this tied in well with this. Gave the opportunity for writing experiences also.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Future opportunities to help with our school gardens, looking after the community. Sustainability.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Exploring some new vegetables that students have not heard of. Showing children about how they grow by cracking codes, this encouraged them to try new vegetables because they were a part of the ";Little garden league"; they knew it was an important job as

“This school kit was fantastic. It integrated well into our topic unit that we were also doing. The process of planting the plants and watching them grow the children were mind blown! Some have never seen or watched anything grow before. They loved cracking the codes and proudly wearing their badges. Overall we had great success and have now planted our little gardens into our school garden. the children will know be able to watch their plants grow long term”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? We have made it work across the curriculum where possible, technology - building houses to keep our plants safe, maths - graphing favourites, literacy, science - it has been a wonderful experience.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Next term we will be cooking, harvesting and continue to watch our garden grow in the school garden.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? All the children are talking about vegetables and trying new foods at home.

“This was an amazing kit. As my first experience I was not sure what to expect but the buy in from my class was amazing and we have made it work across the curriculum where possible, technology - building houses to keep our plants safe, maths - graphing favourites, literacy, science - it has been a wonderful experience.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Students were able to write about the project and track the progress of their plants through writing. Children were also able to write information reports. As a class, we were also able to tie this into healthy eating and what this looks like.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Learning about how long seedlings take to fully develop once in the garden and children were able to learn about what it takes to plant and grow something.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Encourage students to grow their own vegetables at home and share with their families what they have been learning.

“Little Garden was a great project for my children to learn about growing and planting vegetables and what it means to look after and care for these growing plants. Children were very engaged in the project and were always looking after and caring for their seedling.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Visual perception skills were developed with the cool game. Literacy skills of decoding were enhanced by the letters. Health and safety were encompassed in the discussions on ‘ we are learning why we should eat vegetables. We are learning how to grow vege

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? The learning kit has developed language for us to discuss and explore other growing plants. This will also lead to research into insects and their affect on plants, positive and negative.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? By growing and nurturing their plants kids became aware of how we get our vegetables and why we need vegetables. In these discussions we made comparisons to humans needs and vegetables needs.

“The children loved the opportunity to participate in this activity. They enjoyed planting and watching them sprout. The coded letters were great for the kids and they were very proud of their much improved expertise by number 3. The game was wonderful visual processing activity. Covid lockdowns impacted on our ability to fully participate and has impacted on our ability to measure their growth. The language used for the ‘league’ did not seem quite appropriate for Kiwi Kids, it was difficult to get them fully engaged in the ‘league’ as it was a unknown term. The activities were very well set at Year 2 but they found it difficult to get them enthused about badges and ‘belonging to a league. We will try vegetables to eat next term.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? There's lots of conversation going on definitely. It was a great opportunity for my class to engage in literacy and numeracy activities. We wrote a funny about our vegetables and plants. What a great amazing kit!

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? We are going to grow our garden for our school. I am pretty sure the kids can't wait to taste it.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Yes definitely the kit helped us to extend awareness of nutrition and healthy eating. We did a bar graph about what the most favourite and least favourite vegetables and plants

“What a great amazing Little Garden kit from School Kit and New World! Thank you so much! Me and my class were extremely excited about the kit and there's lots of learning going on developmentally. We talked about GROW, PROTECT and TASTE! Absolutely a useful education tool for me to educate my class about what is healthy eating. Thank you!”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Lots of links to literacy and numeracy especially with new entrant students. Lots of counting and oral language discussions.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? We are developing a school vegetable garden which we are going to continue to add to and involve the greater community.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? We have tried lots of new recipes in class. Students have then tried them at home with their families. Lots of discussion around food in lunchboxes also.

“Amazing resource! Great to see the students engaged, trying new vegetables and enjoying the music and fun activities.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Since, our focus was Science, it really incorporated within this learning area.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Educating learners to be excited about healthy eating and encouraging them to grow their own vegetable garden.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? The learners observed their plants sprouting and growing in different stages, showing great determination in wanting to eat the vegetable.

“The learners showed incredible engagement during the whole process. They had an authentic and enjoyable experience when learning about plants and healthy eating.”

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