“Gosh it’s been a crazy year so far! We’ve been so busy we’ve only just been able to start our Grass Roots kit today but the kids loved reading the letters and tomorrow we make a start on mapping the farms!”
“Thanks for giving us the opportunity to do the 'Grass Roots' School Kit. Only half the class did it as the rest were at a Sports Tournament, but we loved the chance to do something different. We thought that you learn great values growing up on a farm.”
“Our class is using the Grass Roots kit. We were able to connect all of us to a farm. Some of us live on a farm so it was easy! We displayed our written description of our connection with coloured pins showing how many ‘degrees of separation’ we are from a farm.”
“Henderson Primary started Grassroots kit in Term 3 and we loved it! Had some special guests come to our class to talk about growing up on a farm. Over the school holidays students were given their own challenge to interview an individual. We will add to our display in Term 4. We loved reading the letters and finding out what questions all farmers were asked. Thank you school kit.”
“Our class really engaged in trying to work out the questions, after we had discussed the claim that everyone had a link to a farm and identified values we knew and values in the letters we turned the letters questions into a game with the winner choosing the colour to highlight, the next game was finding where in NZ the letter had come from.
We finished the term with approx 70% knowing they link to a farm and a bunch of children taking the interview questions/sheet home over the holidays to see if there is a link.”
What were some of the values that the people your students interviewed talked about?
to work hard and never give up, to care for the environment, if you put in the effort you will be rewarded, family is important, animal welfare is important,
“The children really enjoyed going through the letters and then loved the fact they were going to interview someone. The interview cards were great support for this. Being from a rural community the children were engaged from the start.”
“An awesome kit. We started with exploring photo stories etc to do with farming and that sparked an interest. The children enjoyed reading the letters. And got them thinking for their interview questions were!”
