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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Yes

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? The wanted to know what we're

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Rawe rawa

“Kia ora ra rawe nga tipu ma nga tamariki he pangarau ine. Tuhituhi tuhinga putaiao. Toi imovie me te hangarau.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Some cross curricular opportunities, but we were unable to take it too far as we had another unit running alongside this unit.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Many future opportunities to go deeper into this unit, to look at our school garden more closely and link this unit into other enviro topics.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? The kit sparked their interest in vegetables again. Many of the children had a wide experience with vegetables, but hadn't tried them for a while.

“The class enjoyed signing up for the club and feeling like part of a team. They negotiated for the vegetable they would like to grow.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? The coding was a great example of a cross curricular activity. We have been learning Maori words for the parts of plants. We have been writing about plants and doing oral language activities around our plant topic.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? We will be continuing to develop our school garden next year - so this topic will remain part of the teaching and learning programme for the new Year 4's.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Students have become more aware of the variety of plants that they can eat and the parts of the plants they eat. When students cultivate their own crops (and later on add them to their cooking/baking) they are more likely to try new foods. This kit has al

“As always the Little Garden plant pots are a great success with students. This term our topic is focused on our school garden, so the school kit has been particularly relevant. Students enjoyed completing and earning their badge as part of the the LGL. They are still proudly wearing the badges. Each day, the first thing they did upon entering the class was to check the plants - a very motivating topic.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Art, reading, the opportunities were endless

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? We have planted the plants in the ground outside the classroom and now continuing to learn about different plants and how long they take to grow

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? You inspired them to care and want to eat healthily, they were excited when they had the vegetables in their lunchboxes

“WONDERFUL!!!! This was amazing from start to finish! The kids were so engaged right from the arrival of the package, to unpacking it, to each and every session that was planned for us. I have even got my learners wanting to do more cracking code activities. You inspired them to care and want to eat healthily, they were excited when they had the vegetables in their lunchboxes. Through a crazy year we have had, it was a bright, easy to follow school kit project. Thank you New World and School Kit”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Science - Living World: Plant life cycles Phys Ed &; Health: Healthy Eating Maths: Measurement (of plant growth) English: Reading names of plants, Writing applications to be members of the Little Garden Club, Oral language - discussing plants, gardens,

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Looking after things to ensure their survival. Planting other kinds of seeds and watching them grow e.g.beans, sunflowers Ways of preparing different vegetables Being brave and trying new foods

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Children have a healthy food snack at 10am every morning. The focus on fruit and vegetables has enabled them to make independent healthy food choices from their lunchboxes. One student who would not eat any fruit previously has tried some new fruits and w

“The children were extremely engaged in all phases of the Little Garden Project. They were very excited about being members of the Little Garden Club and once they had planted their pots eagerly checked the progress of their plants each morning upon arriving at school.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Measurement / maths: growth of vegetables over the weeks Writing: Writing stories on their vegetables and also procedural writing on planing the vegetables

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Students seemed to be more interested in the food that they were eating. They also decided (a lot of them) that they wanted to start to grow their own vegetables. We also have a bit planter outside the back of our class so we were wanting to make our own

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Giving characters / names to all of the vegetables - making heathy eating more 'fun' and relatable

“One thing that we found annoying was that the little vegetable name tags were made of paper so dissolved when watered. My mistake of not naming the vegetables on a popsicle stick though. The kids loved the secret codes to crack and ended up memorising a lot of the letters. At the end of the term, students all took their plants home and loved being able to plant them with the plants that their parents had received at home too. I was shocked that a few of my students weren't sure on all of the vegetables but it was cool to see by the end of it, students were giving their dinner / brain food vegetables names.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? We used it as a health topic and a science topic with germination and growth cycle of a plant but beyond that it really didn’t lend itself to any other topic.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? We talked about how the children could plant their own vegetable garden at home and they took their plant home with them before the holidays. We have a vegetable garden at school so now the children have a better understanding of what is happening as the

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? It opened up the discussion of what vegetables children had tried and ones they hadn’t. We talked about how important it was to try new things and then decide whether we liked it or not.

“I teach New Entrants (5 year olds) and they loved planting their seeds. It was a great learning topic for us as well. We learnt about what it took to make the plants grow and then we learnt about the stages a plant goes through when it is growing. The children loved watering the plants and then watching and looking for when the first signs of the plants coming through the soil. The only thing that created a challenge was the little signs that said what the name of the plant was became very soggy and ripped due to watering etc. I wonder if these could be made more durable.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Science and health and nutrition.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Self-sufficiency and creating gardens at home.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? We discussed different vegetables and cooked and ate vegetables in different ways, which was great for the kids.

“I found the premise great, and the idea of a club a huge draw for the kids but it would have been cool if there was more of a unit plan with clear follow up activities. I also found quite a few of the plans went mouldy and didn’t grow very well so had to toss these out.”

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