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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them "We loved building different types of farms" "I was so excited to put the sets together"

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? N/A

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Having manipulatives like the bricks engaged learners and helped them understand concepts better.

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How did the context of farming allow your learners to explore and develop literacy? We could write about what we saw and describe farm layouts and features much easier.

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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 class were super excited to work with the Countdown farm bricks and this fit in perfectly with our 'Farmer Time' programme that we did at the time.”

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Posted 1 year ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them "It makes maths fun - If I have 2 rows of 4 animals then I have 8 animals".

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The animals were great for counting in rows.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? We have combined the kit with another kits of basic pieces and it has been used regularly for maths arrays and some fractions work.

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How did the context of farming allow your learners to explore and develop literacy? This kit tied in really well when we learned and wrote about Matariki, planting and harvesting. It fit perfectly with the focus for the week

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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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“This was an engaging and versatile kit that we will find lots of uses for in the future.”

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Posted 1 year ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them "It was great" " you can make a cool animal city"

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? the farm role play

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Next years learners also get to enjoy it

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How did the context of farming allow your learners to explore and develop literacy? We didn't really use it for this.

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

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“The children had a wonderful creative time with the lego kit.”

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Posted 1 year ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them Aila age 6 - all the kids wanted to build different things, and had different ideas. Bastian - I liked how they had lots of different stuff, the vegetables, the tractor, and all the fruit. It was super fun that you could stack the animals and make families.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Animals!

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Working together to achieve

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

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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 class loved this kit. They have been engaged with it on an ongoing basis all year. A great kit for expanding language and providing for lots of collaboration.”

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Posted 1 year ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them I didn’t know what an aubergine was. I liked learning about the farm machines.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The lego. The kids made it and played with it and there was so much chatter about what the parts of things were and veges etc. esp for my special needs kids.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Know where food comes from. We are a town school. Some kids have never been to an orchard or farm.

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How did the context of farming allow your learners to explore and develop literacy? The oral language was massive! Also the key competencies.

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

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“One of the best kits! The lego was the hit in the classroom. Great play based learning about farms, machines and food.”

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Posted 1 year ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them Student 1 - I liked building the truck with my big buddy. He helped me. He showed me how to do the tricky parts.Students 2 - I have some of these at home, not all of them. It was hard to make but I kept trying

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The Te Reo aspects was very helpful for me as I am early on in my te reo journey. They were easy to use and something that I will use with future classes.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? The oral language that come from all the discussions around who had these at home, while building the different things and through the play that continues everyday has been valuable. .

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How did the context of farming allow your learners to explore and develop literacy? As we are a Structured literacy school and follow a scope and sequence our literacy looks completely deferent now to what it has been in the past. We did not do any writing based off the bricks but we did do a lot of orally - we know that oral language is the stepping stone of literacy so it has played a vital part this way.

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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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“The Farm Bricks kit was a really engaging and age-appropriate kit for my class. The Te Reo aspect was at a level that our students even as New Entrants could attempt. Some of the building of the larger vehicles were a bit hard for my class but we got the help from some older students which was a great way to build relationships. We have used the materials in our class almost every day since completing the activities so the materials (lego) itself is something that is practical. The activities are well thought out and easy to follow.”

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Posted 1 year ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them Liked building with them, Enjoyed working cooperatively to build the farm vehicles to start with

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The vehicles, because they were the basis of what happens on the farm

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Copoperation - working together towards a common gaol

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How did the context of farming allow your learners to explore and develop literacy? For my classroom this was more oral language than that of written language. Provided them with a context and different vocabulary than that the might ordinarily have and or use.

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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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“I utilised the lego bricks as part of our morning discovery. The students loved engaging with each other, planning what was going to happen on the farm etc.”

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Posted 1 year ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them I liked making the truck. I enjoyed playing with the farm during class time

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The making of the farm itself, very hands on.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? They learnt all about a variety of farms and how each one operates differently

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How did the context of farming allow your learners to explore and develop literacy? We looked at farming books and read about farms during our time building the farm

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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 loved the brick farm and creating their own classroom farm by building it themselves. They liked the game but enjoyed making the farm more.”

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Posted 1 year ago