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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? We used the codes as part of our literacy programme. We also planted some of the plants in our school garden as part of our enviro programme.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? We will harvest the vegetables from our school garden and have a shared picnic using the vegetables.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? It helped them to identify vegetables they otherwise didn't know about and also to plant more vegetables at home.

“The children very much enjoyed caring for their own plants and planting them at home and in our school garden.”

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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 kit gave lots of opportunities for talk, motivation for writing and choice of topic for reading.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? We are going to set up a planter box in our school environment for all the children to take ownership of.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? We have talked about vegetables and fruit and the children are more aware of what is in their lunchboxes.

“My only issue was the kit was pitched a little bit high for my New Entrant class. They really enjoyed the planting.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Living world, science, health and well-being - linking vegetables to providing energy.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Garden to table with our community gardens.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Children were able to see link from the seed, plant and then vegetables that they recognise on their sandwiches and dinner plates at home.

“The children were very excited to grow their little gardens. They rushed to look each day to see if they had grown. The code was appropriate for some of the children but many needed support to complete and then help to read the message. They had an opportunity some weeks later to grow more seeds and as part of the garden to table programme have become a lot more engaged with our school garden and what is growing.”

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

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Set us up for KEGS

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Ate a few things we never have before. That was interesting!

“We loved it but unfortunately it came too close to the holidays and the plants went home. We are currently on a kegs term and I wish I had held over to this term. But we had fun and learnt heaps.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Maths: Measuring the plants growth, amount of water given each day. Art: pictures of how they thought their vegetables would look when fully grown. Writing: Instructions on how to plant their seeds and look after them.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Making connections to other living things, putting mathematical ideas into context, finding out what areas of this topic interested the children.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? It gave us the opportunity to talk about the wide variety of healthy foods available. Growing the vegetables themselves made the children very keen to taste them even if they were unfamiliar vegetables or ones they said they didn't like.

“The children really loved growing the Little Garden themselves and being responsible for taking care of them. Due to Lockdown, our time was a bit limited so we didn't go into as much depth as I would have liked to. The coded messages were a great way to increase the engagement and excitement too.”

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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? 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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