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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? We have been talking about healthy lunches and discussing what nutrients you get out of different types of foods.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Nutrition and understanding the importance of eating healthy. How easy it is to actually grow your own vegetables.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? So a lot of my students hadn't tried different the different veges. So I brought some in for them to try. It was brilliant for them to try things they didn't even know about.

“Wow, this was awesome for my year 2's. The discussion around how to grow things to oh my goodness this is how we have food to eat.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? We used growth charts to measure and also reading the table for showing how long germination and harvesting takes. Also, the language used was new learning for our year 3 students - germination, harvesting, growth, roots, shoots etc. We also talked abo

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? It was a shame that in Auckland, we had a lockdown so our term was cut short... but had we not sent our plants home for the holidays. We are having a competition to see who can look after their plant over the holiday and then share photos of our plant whe

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Children were interested in what parts of the plant they would be able to eat and if they were 'real' vegetables! We had also investigated bees the term earlier so it was great to look at how vegetables grow after we had looked at fruit and the pollinatio

“The Little Garden kit was presented in an interesting, engaging and creative way! What a wonderful story. Our class loved the extra elements of codes and letters as well as the learning from growing seeds. What a valuable resource - all presented beautifully! Many students then asked parents to shop at New World so they could also have other varieties of seedlings at home too - this shows how much they loved the planting and watching the growth!”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Incorporate mindfulness into the Little Garden project but discussing nurture, kindness and taking responsibility.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Incorporate into statisitics by creating graphs of 'how many days did each vegetable take to grow' etc. Writing- explanation on how to care for a plant.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Motivated them to incorporate more veges into their diet. Made them excited about vegetables and using what they grow themselves in their dishes.

“I liked how there were a lot of activities and resources in the kit which gave me a lot of inspiration. 'Cracking the code' was a fun, exciting process for the kids.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Maths - using arrays to multiply

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Preparing food, companion planting.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? The class were very surprised to find out they could eat some flowers. There knowledge of the types of edible plants has increased, especially herbs.

“Lots of enthusiasm from the class; planting, watering, watching in anticipation!”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Gardening (stem), counting maths - spelling veges

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Keep on gardening in school - inquiry

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Learning about new veges they didn't know of.

“Was really well planned out. Kids loved the activities. Easy to follow and set up. Well-paced lessons.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Literacy - making connections to self, text and world. Mathematics - sorting, classifying, coding, position and orientation, counting, seasons, time etc. Sciences and technology - what plants need and how to care for them, how to plant and nurture the see

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Exploring hauora and making connections to student wellbeing. Likewise, making connections to our inquiry theme Kaitiakitanga (looking after ourselves, our whanau, community, whenua and the wider world)

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? The students have a greater awareness of the variety of vegetables available and are keen to try new vegetables.

“Thank you School kit and New World! The students were engaged right from the start and loved the idea of being part of a secret group, complete with their LGL badges. This unit tied in beautifully with our inquiry' kaitiakitanga'. We have just planted our seedlings and can’t wait until we can harvest and cook the produce. The students have been excited to try new vegetables at home, and have adopted the mantra 'grow, protect, taste'.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Maths, science, writing, reading, the class are loving it. Drama as well.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? There are plenty, not all of which we will do. We've been relating plants to human life cycles and other living creatures such as butterflies. This has led to grandparent interviews and baby photo guess who? It links to swimming next term and self care. A

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? There is more conversation about what healthy food is but this has not transferred over to the contents of their lunchboxes. I will continue the unit of healthy eating and growing things into Term 4.

“The class love their little garden kits and are becoming far more knowledgeable not only about the names of vegetables and edible plants, but also in how to grow and care for living things.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? I was linking it to fairytales, as that is what were learning about in writing, so we talked about Jack and the Beanstalk etc. Obviously health and nutrition and guardianship of the land - being a kaitiaki. We also learnt about the seasons etc. This linke

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? We are moving into Keeping Ourselves Safe next term, and will probably keep aspects of this school kits running along that.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? I think the message was an important one. I really liked that it encouraged children to try new things, and we had lots of discussions in class about how not every thing had to be our favourite, but that it was really important to try.

“The kit has been incredible. The supporting resources have also made it so easy to incorporate into mu planning etc and have magnificent and engaging lessons without having to do a lot of the leg work. Giving the horrific workload at this time of year, that in itself has been a god sent. The kids LOVED the secret aspect to it, and I really this that, and the codes etc help get there buy in.”

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