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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them " I love the bricks, its all about farms" other students are non verbal but point to the bricks and sign please.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? for my students it was the fine motor skills and focus in a format that they could associate with eg farming, animals and food

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? My students and their whanau would not be in a position tomaccess this if it wasnt at school so it was lovely to be able to provide this

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How did the context of farming allow your learners to explore and develop literacy? My students are pre level 1 so still exploring pre literacy eg oral vocabulary

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“Really enjoyed this kit, my students got so much out of it. A couple of my students ask to have this out every day, its a wonderful learning experience on so many levels.”

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Posted 2 years ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them "I loved building the farm, but especially the truck and tractors" "I loved the activities and learning about where our food comes from"

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? For the kids it was the bricks- being able to use them for imaginative play for me the whole kit- bricks, activities, links to readers/videos etc

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? huge- we are moving on to Matariki now and they are so disappointed. I will bring it back in term 4.

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How did the context of farming allow your learners to explore and develop literacy? Lots of writing opportunities, reading the text, responding orally to videos.

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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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“Oh my gosh, my class had so much fun with this kit. Not only all the bricks, but the activities and resources that go along with it.”

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Posted 2 years ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them “I managed to follow the instructions to make the tractor. I followed the steps. It was hard but I didn’t give up. “ Autumn 5. I learnt to count how many apples in the black apple container. We learnt it in Māori. There were Toru “ Jack 7

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The resources to support teaching were great. After lesson the children enjoyed use ing the resource for play based.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Use of te reo. We linked this to our healthy me inquiry and this l resource helped leave them with an incredible knowledge of where their food came from.

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How did the context of farming allow your learners to explore and develop literacy? Great for our oral language skills. Especially for ESOL learners.

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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 loved this resource. The use of te reo made it a fun and interesting way to teach new Kupu. It felt meaningful and children to use this with their whanau and their own bricks they collected from the supermarket at home.”

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Posted 2 years ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them it was useful to see our brick designs in actual materials - from paper to bricks. We don't have this at home, so this is cool to use.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Obviously the bricks themselves - so hands on and no matter the ability of students, all can partake.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? The manipulation of the materials - it is so open ended so we can link it to almost any learning - the children continue to go back to it.

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How did the context of farming allow your learners to explore and develop literacy? We used the concept of Communities and the garden design in them. We spent time discussing what is in our community garden and making design plans that we labelled.

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“Our class was super excited to open the kit and it was a fabulous team-building exercise - so much engagement (along with a bit of healthy competition) to create our garden for our concept based on Communities. It has also been an amazing resource to have available for a new child with very little English - he is very engaged and this has become his "safe" space to play/learn at.”

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Posted 2 years ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them The tractor and building were the high lights they said" 1 The tractor is so cool you can get it to go to all the parts of the farm as it has a job to do everywhere. Tractors and farming gear help the farmers ' 2 Tractors are needed on farms so people ca

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The game, the card sand of course making the bricks

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? That although it seem like lots of work and daunting that through collaboration, discussion and working as a group- ma te mahitahi - the wonderings happened

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How did the context of farming allow your learners to explore and develop literacy? The language that developed the thought processes deepening, the hands on approach helped the children stay engaged for longer &providing hands on materials is a bonus

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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, Other school staff brought in Bricks from home

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“Farm bricks were great, the children were so engaged and excited wanting to start. the instructions were good, but after a few months, the children went rogue and wanted to do their own games and creations. They lost focus and found some parts tricky.”

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Posted 2 years ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them Can I choice Lego table again please. Hey what if we build a whole town. I really like what max has made on the Lego. Can I change groups and play with him.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The actual hands on block were the best for my class. We used them for discovery, maths, writing and tech

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Anyone can play with Lego successfully and even the weirdest combination of kids grow strong relationships over the Lego table

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How did the context of farming allow your learners to explore and develop literacy? We related it to our Te Whenua topic and made connections with books and story writing

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In what ways did your supplement your classroom Bricks Farm? Brought in Bricks Farms pieces from home, Reached out to local Countdown for surplus Bricks

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“This was a great addition to our play table. Multiple levels of play developed with different groups interacting differently each day”

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Posted 2 years ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them "I love how we can pretend that we are farmers and planting our veges and then we get to take them to market." Theo, 6 "My favourite part is the little animals, I am pretending that I am a vet and I am looking after them." Bella, 6

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Everything - it all went together so well and every part has been used.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? My learners will remember this kit for a long time to come - for some many reasons. The amazingly made animals and other items, made pretend play so much fun and they have spent hours making farms and markets and communities.

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How did the context of farming allow your learners to explore and develop literacy? They have written about their communities and where they fit in them.

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

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“My class absolutely loved this set - our inquiry topic concept was community so we were able to talk about all the communities that we are a part of and we used the farm community as an example. We were able to talk about all the people involved in farming and the different roles they play. Also how things that come from farms impact our lives. This has been the best kit we have had and we will be using it for years to come. Thank you so much”

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Posted 2 years ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them I enjoyed making the lego tractor. I was good at reading the instructions - Corban (9years old) I liked learning the different Maori names for animals - Emmilene (8years old)

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? the create an draw cards

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Students willl be able to play with the lego and engage in the game in their free choice time

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How did the context of farming allow your learners to explore and develop literacy? It linked to many of our reading books

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In what ways did your supplement your classroom Bricks Farm? Reached out to local Countdown for surplus Bricks

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“The lego farm kit was fanastic. I used it as an independent activity for litracy for most of term 2. This was after an initial 3 afternoon teaching sessions.”

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Posted 2 years ago