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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? The children all enjoyed everything we did including plant labelling.

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In what ways has this kit improved student awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? We made dip and placed cut vegetables around the dip on plates and ate this together. Most children loved this activity. At couple of children were hesitant to try some of the vegetables but after seeing their peers love them, decided to try before they m

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Some children did not appear to know what some of the vegetable were and a few were not interested. Most were very interested to learn that there were more vegetables that they hadn't tried.

“Room 2 loved the kit and especially enjoyed seeing & exploring the 'top secret' box it arrived in our room in. They had a lot of fun trying to guess what was inside and why there was 'handle with care written on every side.”

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Posted 2 years ago

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Te whare tapa wha/health, science, writing, reading, ,aths, technology... such a great unit to intergrate!

How successful was this kit in building student recognition of vegetables?

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In what ways has this kit improved student awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Great impact, lots of veges coming in the lunch boxes since the unit. Lots of discussion about veges while eating.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Amazingly the children are super engaged with the vege patch match game.

“This kit was very popular with the children. They have loved learning about vegetables and plants, which linked really well to prior learning about the living world. The kit is also excellent to link to the ongoing Te Whare Tapa Wha focus within our classroom over the year. The children enjoyed the code cracker tasks and we did quite a lot of the videos and extra tasks added in. We will continue to revisit as our seedlings grow and turn into plants over Term 4. This is the second time I have done this kit and if offered again I would absolutely take it up for a third time.”

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Posted 2 years ago

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? This kit worked in well with out potato growing competition we are running at school and it gave the children great topics for our writing programme.

How successful was this kit in building student recognition of vegetables?

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In what ways has this kit improved student awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? I think it has been great, and they realize that growing their own vegetables is sustainable and can be cheaper than buying them. They now know how heathy eating can impact their behaviours.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Most children new many vegetables, there were a few that we did learn about which was great.

“We love the Little Garden school kit for our year 1s. The resources were great and there were lots of great items in this kit. This is the second time I have used this kit and it was fantastic. Due to limited time I was not able to make the cardboard "Mailbox" As we found this was quite fiddly last time. Overall a great kit.”

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Posted 2 years ago

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Kay competencies, health, living world.

How successful was this kit in building student recognition of vegetables?

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In what ways has this kit improved student awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? It is another tool and has given them an awareness - and reinforces what I have in my lunchbag! It was a good platform, to introduce and speak with them about healthy eating.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? It improved this - and exposed children to vegetables they weren't familiar with. The cards were very helpful.

“Little Garden Kit 22”

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Posted 2 years ago

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? So many cross curricular experiences - writing, language, maths, statistics, probability.

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In what ways has this kit improved student awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Children have been more likely to try some new vegetables, but still a few hesitant.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Using the game helped identify some more vegetables, but this is an area we will continue to work on. Common vegetables were identified, not so common were not.

“The entire contents of the Little Garden 22 Kit has been utilised by our classroom, and will continue to be used into the 2023 school year. We have learnt lots about what plants need to survive and even though we have had some plants not grow, we have figured out a possible why as to the reason for the plants not thriving. We have learnt lots of new rich vocabulary around seeds such as 'strike' and nurture. Learning about what flowers can and cannot be eaten is something we are going to look at later. We are thinking of a way to ensure our plants get watered over the long holiday break so the whole school can enjoy our garden's contents next year.”

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Posted 2 years ago

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? It helped with writing an expanding our sentences. It helped with maths as we could measure how big they were growing and with art.

How successful was this kit in building student recognition of vegetables?

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In what ways has this kit improved student awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? making connections between their food at home and their lunchboxes AND educated their families on healthy eating too

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? This was pretty great as my kids didn't know a lot except for the known ones. Now they know so many and have tasted a lot more

“This was a great unit! Had my kids interested from the start ! Made learning so much more fun”

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Posted 2 years ago

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Was great for our science unit, also ran concurrent to our writing as we ran plant diaries and kids could track their progress

How successful was this kit in building student recognition of vegetables?

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In what ways has this kit improved student awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Always a tentative topic - kids were definitely keen to eat their plants when they were/are at full growth

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? Kids began to make links between growth process and what we see in supermarkets

“The variety of the kit was excellent - it gave kids a chance to be exposed to new plants (our local area was fairy repetitive, they loved seeing the popcorn!) The kit was as usual comprehensive and all encompassing, clever use of the box to become a mailbox. I didn't fully understand the concept of applying for a plant when it was fairly lucky dip on what you got, easy fix to just look inside the boxes but it was just a thought.”

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Posted 2 years ago

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Measurement- Maths- growth each day Literacy- reading books on gardens

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In what ways has this kit improved student awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Taking ownership- proud to eat something they have personally helped to grow.

How successful was this kit in promoting student ability to identify vegetables? High impact- many students couldn't say the name of vegetables. Once they chose their seedling they learnt it and had the opportunity to take it home.

“Little Garden Wellsford School Room 18 Excellent kit- students particularly loved the cards as well as the planting the seedlings.”

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