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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them I make the farmer drive the tractor to get all the vegies. The animals have to go in the barn to be safe and they must get water and food or they don't grow big and we can't eat them.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? having the puzzle as well as the lego encouraged my sensory children to explore. The full range of vehicles and the clear zones on the puzzle supported the children to develop an understanding of the different elements that make up a farm quickly.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? A love for LEGO! And a healthy understanding of where food comes from. They don't now tell me that it only comes from the supermarket. They want to tell me how it was made/grown and who helped in the process. It led to us growing things too- so YAY!

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How did the context of farming allow your learners to explore and develop literacy? The huge growth in oral language came from developing our vocabulary and working to understand the relationships between the different elements. The kids wrote letters to the farmer telling him what they wanted him to do. We wrote shopping lists and th

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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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“OMG! The excitement in our room was AMAZING! As new entrants the fine motor skills and small group learning involved in building these amazing creations was such great learning. My class loved learning all about how farms worked and what each piece of equipment was. Having all the different vehicles and buildings meant they were able to identify and follow the process of farm to supermarket. Luckily I had a supermarket in the classroom and we set them up to drive their products to the supermarket as part of our learning. It is by far one of the most popular items to play with in our class now and our vocabulary around farms and supermarkets has grown dramatically.”

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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 working together to earn pieces to make up the milk truck." "I could help people build because I am good at doing lego."

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The Bricks farm itself - it has encouraged children to work collaboratively and cooperatively together and continues to do so.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? As I said above - it is now being used daily by children and they are creating wonderful stories/plays involving the farm animals etc.

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How did the context of farming allow your learners to explore and develop literacy? As we are doing a farm unit next term our class didn't go into that so much in term 1.

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

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“My class absolutely loved the Bricks Farm resources we received. They liked playing the game and earning pieces to make up the building and trucks etc. The Maori vocab we learned was great. There is now a table set up in our room permanently and every morning before school students are there talking to each other and making up creative games using this wonderful resource.”

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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 lego is the best lego in the world and you can make all kinds of stuff. The lego is so cool. I like the lego because it is so much fun.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The lego pieces and instructions because they had to work out how to put them together. The te reo cards because they could practise naming objects.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? A lot of enjoyment, technology and literacy learning.

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How did the context of farming allow your learners to explore and develop literacy? Most of my students live on farms so they were able to add their own knowledge and talk/write about their experiences.

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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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“It was very engaging for the students. They loved being able to make the lego and use it as part of the classroom learning through play.”

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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 “This is heaps of fun” “we are practicing working together when we do this” “ I like the drawing part the best”

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Having the whole countdown farm set was great and made the children feel special . The way the game and activities tied together learning in different curriculum areas was good.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? We can work together to achieve things

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How did the context of farming allow your learners to explore and develop literacy? We wrote about many of the experiences we had with the kit. A very motivating topic for writing

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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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“Excellent kit. Loved the suggested activities and class enjoyed doing the challenges to earn a brick set to make. Good links with many curriculum areas. Was great for team building and cooperation as we worked in small groups to build the kits.”

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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 'Where does meat come from? I didn't know bacon and pork came from pigs. Ew yuck!" "If the supermarkets have no food we could grow our own."

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? All of the Lego bricks were impacted as we could create a scenario of the impacts of flooding and how it effects the environment and community

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Growing food and where our food omes from.

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How did the context of farming allow your learners to explore and develop literacy? Expanding vocabulary and introducing specific vocabulary.

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“The students enjoyed learning about where our food comes from. All my students love Lego so making connections with this kit was fun and hands on.”

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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 farmer gives us food then we buy it and eat it

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Lego

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Importance of how effects us and our community

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How did the context of farming allow your learners to explore and develop literacy? Research what farms grow. Steps of how milk is made from farm to supermarket.

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

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“The students enjoyed building the bricks farms. We related this unit to the farms around our local area.”

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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 like the trailer and I can put it onto this vehicle and that vehicle. The cows and the pigs all have babies and they are cute. The tanker brings the milk to the factory and they make our milk that we drink.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The vegetables as the students learnt that they come from a farm and then they get packed up and taken to the shop and that is how we get them.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? That food has to come from other places than a supemarket. Fresh food (vegetables) are grown in the ground and picked and then we get them.

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How did the context of farming allow your learners to explore and develop literacy? We had lots of discussions about what farms are and what they have on them that help people in the community. They wrote about parts of a farm and the vehicles and labelled different vehicles. The vocab and the understanding of what farms are was great to

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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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“This kit was amazing! The students built up the farm and sorted all the buildings, vehicles, and people into their own areas. The farm was constantly changing in its layout. Lots of discussion was happening as to what the vehicles were for and how they could be used. The students loved the trailer that could be out onto a couple of the vehicles and that it could carry items in the back. I found this kit valuable for the students that had no idea what a farm was and where we got our food from other than a supermarket. The vocabulary that they built up with the discussion was awesome and the way they spoke to each other using the same vocab was great. It was a wonderful kit for the students to build on their fine motor skills and also on the creative way of building certain structures.”

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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 children in my class are 5/6 year olds and the impact for them from the kit was building on thier knowledge of farming and learning new kupu in a fun way.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The tasks were most impactful because they could investigatge, create and use thier developing knowledge

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? A lot of discussion happened around where our food comes from, our environment and the importance of taking care of our environment. The legacy left on my learners is to be inquisitive and that learning can be fun.

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How did the context of farming allow your learners to explore and develop literacy? The context of farming helped in developing vocabulary and word meaning especially for our ESOL students.ts.

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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, Reached out to local Countdown for surplus Bricks, Other school staff brought in Bricks from home

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“At Sacred Heart, we are a play-based learning environment that enjoys discovering. I found that the children in my class really enjoyed interacting with the Bricks Farm starting with the activities and then using the equipment (bricks) in role-playing. The only criticism I have is some of the vehicles and buildings were hard to make with complicated instructions.”

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Posted 2 years ago