Blocks are an early learning tool that helps young children develop their muscles and their minds. Through play, preschool children can learn concepts and skills as block activities are taken across the early childhood curriculum. AS children are actively engaged in experimenting with blocks, they are challenging their creativity and problem solving skills.
Students use blocks as a measuring tool. How tall can they stack their blocks? Are they taller or shorter than their tower? Comparing towers, who has the tallest/shortest? etc. All these questions are building math concepts as well as problem solving skills.
Students learn to respect each other when they are involved in cooperative construction projects. We really have to trust each other when working with blocks, because sometimes the temptation to knock it over is too much!
Of course, block play is also about eye-hand coordination and visual perception. Students are working with patterns, shapes/sizes, spatial awareness, balancing and counting. Students above replicated a pattern to create a fence around their playing area.
Make sure to check out more about block play HERE!
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