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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them I thought it would be too hard for me and I didn’t want to do any building but then I started and it was FUN.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Problem solving. Lots of discussion led to maths conversations. Visual awareness.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Planning and cooperating leads to success for those involved.

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How did the context of farming allow your learners to explore and develop literacy? Lots of new vocabulary

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In what ways did your supplement your classroom Bricks Farm? Reached out to local Countdown for surplus Bricks, Other school staff brought in Bricks from home

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“This kit had so many, diverse uses that challenged my 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 "We loved building the lego farm" "I liked creating our beehive that could count sheep"

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The STEM (thing, that, for) cards and the brick sets.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? The imaginative play - designing their creations and the imaginative play with the brick sets

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How did the context of farming allow your learners to explore and develop literacy? Constructing of setnences to describe what was happening in the countdown bricks scense that they had created - using colourful semantics to create sentences that made sense.

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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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“One of my favourite kits! Students love the STEM element and of course the bonus of Countdown Bricks. They loved the imaginative play with the Countdown Bricks set and enjoyed learning the Maori kupu and matching them to pieces within the Countdown Bricks set. Students loved creating and designing new objects/machines using the thing, that, for cards. They were so creative and could explain their designs and how they would work. The sets of bricks took a lot of resilience to put together and following of instructions. It wasn't as successful as I thought, but we persevered a couple of times then completed with out buddies.”

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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 1) Most students loved working in small groups for the game. Lots of requests for group work and co-construction of what being a good teammate looks like. In particular, students mentioned they felt they could be successful which was huge for the self est

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The striving for excellence and resilience needed for computational thinking activities was really intrinsically driven. For some students realising that reworking/editing/changing their thinking is a good thing was so impactful. This has provided a great

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? The striving for excellence and resilience needed for computational thinking activities was really intrinsically driven. For some students realising that reworking/editing/changing their thinking is a good thing was so impactful. This has provided a great

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How did the context of farming allow your learners to explore and develop literacy? My class has such a very diverse range of where students are in their literacy learning journey. This topic is so universal that chn had so many experiences to make connections with. There are also so many texts within this theme that there was something

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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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“Such a great kit! The children were so excited and engaged. So much opportunity for rich learning activities and it made our computational thinking mahi really meaningful for the children.”

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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 liked making the brick kit, it was great to figure out how to do it on our own. I thought it was fun to create a fence that delivered eggs, I had fun doing it.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The bricks, it allowed for problem solving and communication skills to build with our students and allowed for creative play.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? We had a farm theme later in the term that tied in well with the bricks and helped the students relate what they had learnt back to something concrete.

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How did the context of farming allow your learners to explore and develop literacy? We did not use it as a literacy tool, more from a maths, stem and problem solving tool.

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“My clas of year 3 & 4s loved the brick kit. There was huge excitement about creating the different items and heaps of problem solving happening. It was a great cooperative task. The thing+that+for task cards were a great addition that we used as a STEM challenge.”

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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 didn't realise farmers could make so many things" (products), was a common statement. Students also realised that there is a lot of equipment needed to farm various 'products'. Student's respected the roles others were taking and were serious about th

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Transportation - which vehicles stayed on the farm and which transported products away from the farm. Even the letter box evoked discussion of another vehicle. They agreed some vehicles needed to be shared e.g. the harvester - they learned that different

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Self Sustainability and collaborative learning

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How did the context of farming allow your learners to explore and develop literacy? Loads of talking, reasoning and specific vocabulary

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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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“We loved this resource. Students took different roles associated with farming and brainstormed what they would need to fulfill that role, developing that part of the farm - including what their product would be and how they would get it to market. On different days they swapped roles to get an understanding of the many products that farming could produce and the roles people play in the processing of products.”

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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 cow makes the milk, then the tanker takes it to the factory, then the factory puts it in the bottle and takes it to the supermarket for us to buy. Our brick farm has broccoli, lettuce and tomatoes in it just like our school vege garden!

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? My students really loved the farm vehicles and learning about what each machine is used for.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? A much deeper knowledge of what happens on a farm and where our food comes from.

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How did the context of farming allow your learners to explore and develop literacy? Using this kit with my new entrant students allowed us the opportunity to learn to sound out and spell animal names in a genuine context. We also loved reading stories about farms and farm animals.

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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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“My students have loved creating and exploring all about farms with our Brick Farm kit. This kit allowed students to learn about all aspects of farm life from learning about farm animals, fruit and vegetables, growing things, different types of farms (orchards/animal farms), farm transport and machines and where our food comes from. I can see our Farm kit being a hit for terms to come as there is always something new to explore.”

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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 ‘So cool to get the whole set’. ‘I liked putting the Lego together’.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Suggestion cards on what to make was enjoyed some some of the class. They enjoyed the challenge.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? This was the first time the kids had received anything like this. They thought they were the luckiest class in the school.

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How did the context of farming allow your learners to explore and develop literacy? A lot of discussion and problem solving g went into making and then playing with the Lego.

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“Class were very excited to open the box and see Lego inside. They loved working in small groups with TA support to complete. Some of the accompanying games were tricky for the kids to follow, so the class ended up playing with it instead.”

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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 “We loved making the Lego and putting our farm together. I love playing with it at lunch time”. “We had great ideas for the inventions. I hope our egg truck can come alive one day”

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? All of it!!! We used it all

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? They still play with the Lego daily and read the farming books suggested!

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How did the context of farming allow your learners to explore and develop literacy? We did some writing based around the farming unit. It was great to see some imagination come through the text

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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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“Wow. Our students loved this unit. We teamed up with 3 junior classes and took the opportunity to do lots of group work. We had some fabulous ideas and inventions on paper with the “thing for that” cards. We love these. We then worked in teams to make the different farm equipment. The conversations and talks were amazing and being a farming community we had lots of little “experts”. Thanks to school kit and countdown for another fabulous kit!!”

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Posted 2 years ago