What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? The website is great. Thanks.

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How effective was the kit in teaching and learning about farming in New Zealand?

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How did you find the open format of this kit? good.

How practical are the components of the Kit for Junior classrooms?

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“Unfortunately, our trip was cancelled due to lockdown. I teach new entrants/Year 1, so the kit was too hard for them to use. I like the website, and will continue to use it as a resource. Thank you for the links to other farming books, and the songs. I like the large mat, and the use of Te Reo Maori. The children enjoyed this mat most of all. I would have liked a more simple version. Just plain picture/photos of farm animals with English/Te Reo captions. We could then use them as a useful ongoing game for memory/bingo. I like the idea of the dice, but once again would have preferred pictures on the dice (farm animals/farmers/farm equipment) because then they could have been used as an independent game. Many thanks for the kit. It is a shame that Covid-19 disrupted our farm trip.”

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Posted 5 years ago

What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? It enabled a wide range of cross-curricular learning experiences. For example their green farm (art) became their motivation for writing. Their 'design a shed' (art) became extended by maths (length, size etc) to fit animals into their design.

How effective was this kit in providing opportunities for cross-curricular learning?

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How effective was the kit in teaching and learning about farming in New Zealand?

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How did you find the open format of this kit? There are many benefits to an open format. As a Beginning Teacher, it perhaps would have been even more beneficial to have a few example lessons on how to go about delivering some of the content.

How practical are the components of the Kit for Junior classrooms?

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“This is a good resource that provided a lot of learning opportunities for my students. Many of my students are from farming families, the activities enabled them to confidently use their knowledge while learning new skills for example, creating comic strips, or self evaluate and critically evaluate a creation. This kit also extended the knowledge of those students with a farming background, they made connections and learned why some practices take place on their farm.”

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Posted 5 years ago

What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? We did some writing and reading about this in Junior Journal activities.

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How effective was the kit in teaching and learning about farming in New Zealand?

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How did you find the open format of this kit? This was okay. I would have liked more structure.

How practical are the components of the Kit for Junior classrooms?

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“I found it tough to do after the lockdown as we worked more on emotional and social wellbeing units and lessons from te rito toi. Before lockdown, it was difficult as covid 19 was just starting and things like the farm/farmer trip was cancelled which would have been a brilliant hands on experience.”

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Posted 5 years ago

What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? animals always a fav for my kiddies

How effective was this kit in providing opportunities for cross-curricular learning?

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How effective was the kit in teaching and learning about farming in New Zealand?

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How did you find the open format of this kit? not very hands on

How practical are the components of the Kit for Junior classrooms?

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“bit over the heads of my 5 year olds.”

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Posted 5 years ago

What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? The website gave examples and there was also a variety of resources inside the kit

How effective was this kit in providing opportunities for cross-curricular learning?

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How effective was the kit in teaching and learning about farming in New Zealand?

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How did you find the open format of this kit? I think the it would have been a bit more helpful if it wasn’t so flexible and the planning was set up more in depth for what resources were in the kit

How practical are the components of the Kit for Junior classrooms?

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“I really liked the resources and the the online forum to follow was really handy. However, I did think it was really tricky concepts for my year group to understand even though some of them had farming back grounds. I did really like that there is a variety of resources to incorporate into the unit planning.”

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Posted 5 years ago

What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? You could make this learning fit in many different places of the curriculum. The kids loved the hands on side of it

How effective was this kit in providing opportunities for cross-curricular learning?

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How effective was the kit in teaching and learning about farming in New Zealand?

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How did you find the open format of this kit? It made it easily fit with our school vision of one size fits one! The interpretation element means we could use as we saw best for our learners

How practical are the components of the Kit for Junior classrooms?

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“Your resources are bright, colourful and totally engaging for our little ones. The learning is relevant and meaningful, it also provides learning that may otherwise not be easily accessible. Thanks School Kit!”

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Posted 5 years ago

What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? The songs were incorporated into our music program.

How effective was this kit in providing opportunities for cross-curricular learning?

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How effective was the kit in teaching and learning about farming in New Zealand?

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How did you find the open format of this kit? The guidance for this kt was very helpful.

How practical are the components of the Kit for Junior classrooms?

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“Fantastic unit used across the curriculum area.”

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Posted 5 years ago

What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? We used a lot of the literacy links to plan for our reading groups and it meant we had relevant reading material to link into our other learning areas. We enjoyed making connections between what we were learning about as a whole class and our small group

How effective was this kit in providing opportunities for cross-curricular learning?

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How effective was the kit in teaching and learning about farming in New Zealand?

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How did you find the open format of this kit? I really liked the open format, because it meant we could suit the learning to our children better. I love the recipe format of the kits so I don't have to think as much, but this was really great because I can see using the kit again, and if the cohort o

How practical are the components of the Kit for Junior classrooms?

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“This kit was really awesome. I loved the amount of links there were to literacy. The songs were really fun, and we enjoyed having topic related songs to sing during our assembly time. There were a variety of options and different ways we could go with the kit which was also nice to choose what suited us best.”

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Posted 5 years ago

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