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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them I liked playing with the truck. I liked the people because they look cool. I liked the farm animals.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Lego cartons, food and vehicles - pretend play and oral language. puzzle pieces - lots of collaboration to problem solve making puzzle.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? exposing types of lego to children who don't have access to any.

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How did the context of farming allow your learners to explore and develop literacy? making connections with local area and home life.

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In what ways did your supplement your classroom Bricks Farm? Brought in Bricks Farms pieces from home, Students brought in Bricks Farm pieces from home

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“Plenty of conversations around farming and lots of oral language through pretend play.”

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Posted 1 year ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them "I seen this at my house" making connections. "My mum shops at this shop" linking with their whanau.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Creating the countdown building and applying stickers.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Connection with their local community.

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How did the context of farming allow your learners to explore and develop literacy? Connection with our local growers, connecting with our school vegetable gardens and what we can grow.

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“I have a class of Year 1 tamariki and they absolutely loved interacting and creating with the lego. There were familiar kai and they all could recognise the Countdown Logo and were super excited. "I been there", "I seen that before", "my mum shops at Countdown".”

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Posted 1 year ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them This was so much fun, I can't believe it was learning. Can we do this every term!

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Creating spaces for the animals

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Hopefully that we need to think about other creatures that we share this earth with.

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How did the context of farming allow your learners to explore and develop literacy? Oral literacy - communication skills

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In what ways did your supplement your classroom Bricks Farm? Brought in Bricks Farms pieces from home, Students brought in Bricks Farm pieces from home

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“Great hands on opportunities that connected well with our respecting animals unit. Children were able to create spaces that showed they understood what animals needed to live and grow.”

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Posted 1 year ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them Student 1: "I really liked doing the thing when we did the farm with other people in a small team. We got to think about the team and who was doing the jobs.I got to be the builder and then I got to tell everyone else what to do too. I really liked the soil experiment - we made edible soil. It was so yum". Student 2 "I liked it best when we had made all the farm and then we got to write some stories about the farm and we got to do some pictures about the farm too. I liked learning all about the things. Miss M showed us some cool videos and we got to do some science stuff too like planting stuff and watching stuff."

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The teaching materials and the bricks themselves. We didn't use the cards as much- I passed the dice on to the Year 6 teacher, they were a bit hard for my learners.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? The teamwork element was amazing and the ease in which we were able to integrate various areas of the curriculum. It was so cool to be able to do some science and some art - all linked in to the kit. I was able to use it as a starting point and then extend and or scaffold as necessary.

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How did the context of farming allow your learners to explore and develop literacy? We didn't use the literacy element as much as the other components. We tried a couple of times and I altered the literacy element, but it was quite hard to do with the kit elements. We instead wrote some stories about what might be happening on the farm, who might live there etc.

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In what ways did your supplement your classroom Bricks Farm? Brought in Bricks Farms pieces from home

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“We had such a wonderful term with the kit. I based my science and art lessons around the video clips and teaching material provided. Then we also used the building kit to make it together. We used it as a reward system, as a team activity and as a free play option. We wrote stories about what was happening on the farm. Made pictures about it and added in some extra bricks to make it into a connecting town.”

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Posted 1 year ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them Learn te reo; increased oral lang

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? animals - captured the children's imagination

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? continue to discuss animals and farming life

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How did the context of farming allow your learners to explore and develop literacy? Promotion of oral language for all. Especially useful for ELL learner in our class.

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“Our Bricks Farm was really exciting for the children to unwrap to reveal the different farm animals and vehicles. It was too difficult for them to put together some of the vehicles but the children have loved playing with the animals and base mat.”

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Posted 1 year ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them I learnt to build a farm and I learnt how that a farm is important

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The theme

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Better fine motor skills and learning about farm to table process

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How did the context of farming allow your learners to explore and develop literacy? Gave great writing prompts

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In what ways did your supplement your classroom Bricks Farm? Other school staff brought in Bricks from home

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“Great for fine motor skills more suited to year 1/2 than new entrants. Lots of imaginative play though.”

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Posted 1 year ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them "It's fun." "I like playing with the lego."

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? We are using it for Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori so that was encouraging for them to try to put new sentences together

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? playing is learning and vice versa. It can be used for years to come in so many ways.

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How did the context of farming allow your learners to explore and develop literacy? Not only did it help with literacy, they learned where these items came from (rather than just the shops). There were some new words for some (eg ESOL) learners as well. It enhanced positional language and instructions which tied into some of our other work.

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In what ways did your supplement your classroom Bricks Farm? Brought in Bricks Farms pieces from home

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“This has been wonderful on so many levels. putting it together - resilience, problem-solving, communication It was particularly engaging for my ESOL students.”

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Posted 1 year ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them We can make lots of stuff to play with on the farm. I can make my own stuff and farm.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Discussion around what a farm has using the puzzle mat pieces. Lego for imaginative building (they created their own things to use on the farm).

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Thinking about farming.

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How did the context of farming allow your learners to explore and develop literacy? Discussion around different farm animals and how we get food.

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In what ways did your supplement your classroom Bricks Farm? Other school staff brought in Bricks from home

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“The building kits were great, especially having the puzzle pieces to create a farm on. The children found some of the instructions hard to follow but created their own. It would be great to have some simple worksheets that support learning for 5 year olds, simple activities that complement the short videos (which are great) or the farm to table concept.”

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Posted 1 year ago