If you talk to any of the children Sonia Rova has ever taught they will tell you how they have hatched chickens and had farm animals in their classroom.
"If we don't teach kids to nurture animals, how to we expect them to nurture each other?" Rova said.
This is one of the many lessons the new entrant teacher at Stratford Primary School in Central Taranaki teaches in her sustainable, play-based, technology-free classroom.