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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Linked with our concept plan

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? To extend this by growing more in our outdoor class area

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Kids were engaged and keen to learn about caring for and growing their own herbs and veges

“Fantastic learning opportunity!”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? We were able to link some of the information to the topics we have been looking at - e.g., our topic of Laudato Si (caring for our environment) and Keeping Ourselves Safe...

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? At the beginning of next year, we will be doing a topic called 'Healthy Lunchboxes'. We will be able to refer back to the learning they have done this year.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? They have seen that you can grow your on food from such a small source. It gave some of them the idea of where food actually comes from.

“The Little Garden League Club was a great resource to have in the classroom. The children were very excited to be part of the club.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? We use the little garden kit in our writing / phonics; as a starting point for further investigation into how plants grow, and lots of conversations about seasons, weather and now water (which is leading into the Beach Clean Up kit!) It also fitted very w

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? We are now moving on to the looking more closely at water, the water cycle, and the importance of keeping our water sources and oceans clean. All very exciting!

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Personifying the vegetables created interest and the code cracker helped children to be drawn into the characters - they loved it! We used this as a starting point to talk about vegetables, try new vegetables, and wealked alot about the vegetables we hadn

“A fantastic kit. We LOVED the LGL and all it came with, and it's relevance to our younger NE/ Yr 1 students. It has evolved into many more conversations and learning experiences - and we are continuing to watch as our plants grow, and hopefully provide! The children have loved it.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? We did reading and writing around the growing from a seed to the plant. Life’s did life cycles. Counted pots, seedsect

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Will definitief do it again next year. Hand on and easy. Amazing learning and great resource to use

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? We did a unit around healthy eating and veggies. We made soup and cooked veggies. Kids had to rate veggies from 1 - 5

“The kids loved the growing of the seeds and followed the growing daily. Thank you for giving us this change as we are a Decile 1 school and our kids don’t have these at home. The plants looks awesome and we used some of the great resources that was available. Excellent stories-written by students. Variety of plants. Some we had to research [inquiry based learning]. We are in the process of replanting and kids are excited to look after the new garden. It is a fun way to get the kids working together and they can see the outcome.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? We wrote stories about how our plants were growing and used Jack and the Beanstalk as a big book for shared reading.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Parents sent in plants-watermelon and cabbage trees and we have planted the around the school. As a class we also planted a citrus grove comprising lemon, mandarin, lime and tangelo trees.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? We made a yummy pumpkin soup during last term as well as cooking a vegetable curry.

“My class loved looking after their wee plants. Each day they would come in and see if their plant had grown overnight:)”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? maths, Key competencies

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Wanting to know more about how fruit and veges get to the supermarkets

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? They had the opportunity to try different fruit and veges that they may not have tried before at home. The influence of their friends trying new things was very helpful too.

“Amazing resources the children LOVED watching their plants grow and they were great guardians”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? We visited our local museum and looked at mara - Maori gardening and the tools they used is the past to garden with. We also planted some gourds, kamokamo and kaanga pirau (rotten corn) and pumpkin seeds. We also looked at the 5+ Day kits Growing plants

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? How a Seeds Grows - writing explanations and drawing illustrations Writing jokes and retelling to a buddy Maori - names for vegetables

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? The students were able to discuss what their favourite vegetables were and how they came to like some vegetables when initially they didn't like eg cauliflower. They also did some research on vegetables and herbs that they had never heard of or tried befo

“The kids were very engaged with the whole kit from planting the seeds and watching the observable growth of the plants. They enjoyed making up or researching and recording plant/flower jokes recording them on the letter and sharing the jokes with their peers. They also loved playing the vegie patch match game with the cards and identifying/naming the different plants and finding matching pairs.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? We drew pictures in art and created posters. We have also written about the instructions for planting etc

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? We might use it to collect data in maths,how tall the plants grow or counting how many tomatoes we collect etc.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? We talked about what food are healthy etc and talked about what we can get from the different veges

“I have some older children in my class so I didn't do the post box as I didn't think it would work for them all. We had great fun planting the veges and we also researched the veges before we planted them and linked it in with a healthy eating unit. It was awesome to see the children getting excited when the shoots started coming and how keen they all were to water them and look after them. Our little gardens are now in the big garden and hopefully they will continue growing well! (I don't have the best luck with plants)”

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