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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them My farmer can care for all the animals by growing his own food. Girl 6. We can work as a team to create lots of fun things to play with. Girl 5.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The variety and close association to creating real discussions about food and feeding.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Ongoing fun

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How did the context of farming allow your learners to explore and develop literacy? Oral language engagement was the most successful component.

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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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“What a fantastic resource, with so much depth.”

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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 "WOW this is so cool. Now I can harvest the corn myself. Maybe I could do this when I grow up' ' I need to put on the helmet before I go on the quad bike. ' 'Can I join in with the farm work." - from a student who is not good at sharing.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The bricks. The students are able to have hand on.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? It will be ongoing. We have got a place in the classroom permanently for the kit. Construction and drama work and cooperative play.

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How did the context of farming allow your learners to explore and develop literacy? As we are a farming community, the students bought their proir knowledge to the work we were doing as well. So the farm just bought all of that into the classroom and ignited the students imagination and interests.

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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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“Our class found this kit very motivating and naturally led to cooperative play, oral language work and design work. We had the older students waiting to help us build the brick kits and it will be an ongoing experience, as it is permanently set up in our class.”

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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 super fun" "I loved being able to make my farm better and better"

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? pieces, cards - thing, that, for - provided so many cool ideas and creativity

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? constant use following unit in class, learners often refer back to activities we have done, broadened their thoughts on farming - even in a farming community!

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How did the context of farming allow your learners to explore and develop literacy? Students really enjoyed being given a blind bag to open and had to write something with that item in it - some really creative work from Y2 and 3 for some items i would have struggled with! Labelling places, sign on their farms ...

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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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“Although initially I got a little confused with the directions/sequence of activities, there were many interesting and varied ideas to launch into. Tamariki were super engaged and the kit provided lots of catalysts for further learning.”

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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 Wow! This is great! Look I have put all the pigs in the same paddock. I have put the baby pigs with the mother.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The animals and produce. Trailers were a great item as they could be loaded with both the animals and produce.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Fun. Able to build the models by themselves; working together.

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How did the context of farming allow your learners to explore and develop literacy? Related well to our theme of "Our People Our Place." Books were borrowed from our local library which the students loved to hear read to them. They also chose to read and look through them during our Literacy options.

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

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“What an awesome kit! The tamariki loved it from the moment it arrived in our room. They set about building the models; great for cooperative group activities with lots of negotiating and sharing knowledge of how to put the kits together. They set up the farm on our Lego table and during our Play Make and Create sessions they play and rearrange the farm. The trailers are (piled high) filled with crates of produce and driven around the table to where they have built a market. As our theme for the year is "Our People, Our Place" this kit works well to support this theme as our rural community is made up of both sheep and dairy farms, a few large gardens where the owners grow to sell the produce, and the rest is made up of houses and gardens. We often have older students work in class with the tamariki (Tuakana Teina) so these kits have been a bonus here. The older tamariki have worked well with the younger tamariki coaching them when building the more complicated models. Again an excellent kit. thank you so much for this opportunity.”

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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 "When are we doing the bricks class next, when do we get to come back to your class". "This is so much fun, i loved this at home, now we get to do it at school"

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The innovative and te reo component. Exposed them to think metacognitively- thinking outside the box. Also exposed kids to new kupu.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Our time spent togather building, designing and making a stop motion.

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How did the context of farming allow your learners to explore and develop literacy? There were many components that enabled literacy learning, and the children didn't even realise they were doing it.

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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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“My mahi tahi class and I completed this kit collaboratively. It provided so much opportunity for ako. We adjusted the kit to meet the needs of our kids and did them based as challenges. The creativity that came from this, the kids looked forward to coming together each week.”

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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 found putting together the lego really tricky and had to work with my friends to get them finished. It was fun to achieve the goal. I was excited to use the toys and learn about farming

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The lego toys were the most effective as they were very motivating for the students.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Play based learning ties nicely with language development

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How did the context of farming allow your learners to explore and develop literacy? Yes, we tied in oral language and read stories about farms ( especially ones effected by floods as this was topical at the time)

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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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“The resources were fun and motivated the students to work together with others to create the models. They helped with the language development of my ESOL students.”

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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 was excited that we got the dog because they were really rare and hard to get from Countdown." Harry "I liked the trucks and tractors the best because we don't have any of those at home." Tynan

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The animals and the vehicles as they tied in with our chapter chat book.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? It helped to reinforce our chapter chat book, plus it inspired so much imaginative and group play.

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How did the context of farming allow your learners to explore and develop literacy? As I mentioned above, we were reading The Wild Robot Returns and in the story Roz the robot lives and works on a farm. This was such a perfect link as the children would incorporate Roz and the family from the book into their play with the bricks.

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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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“The children in our class have loved creating and playing with the Bricks Farm 23 kit. Creating the vehicles was fantastic for following instructions and working as a team. The pretend play has been awesome and it is still one of the favourite activities in our class. It also tied in perfectly with our chapter chat book, The Wild Robot Returns, as Roz the robot lives and works on a farm.”

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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 really hard building the harvester, but I didn't give up". "I love the invent it cards, this is a tractor that can count sheep for visitors at the farm because it has a drone that flies over and can spot the white sheep and counts them, and the v

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? All components - one thing that really grabbed their attention was the cute animals and

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Throughout the year is a favoured choice for kowhiri takaro, our free play option on a Friday

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How did the context of farming allow your learners to explore and develop literacy? Lots of the children in the class live on lifestyle blocks or are farmers, so it connected to their real life contexts. For the city kids it gave them a chance for imaginative play and enjoyment. Lots of kids love the vehicles.

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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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“The farm kit just keeps on giving in our classroom - we use it for a free play resource each week and the students just love it. It really suits kids who love imaginative play. I just love sitting with them and listening to them co-operate and share ideas. I've been intrigued by the interesting ways they use some of the support resources - from trading/bartering type play with the tokens and spontaneous use of te reo. Some kids took it upon themselves to re-create farm vehicles and other kids re-constructed them the next week using the instructions. There has been a little bit of social problem solving neccessary as a result and some work towards creating fair rules for all after the 'breaking' debacles. All great learning that I never anticipated!”

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Posted 2 years ago