Blocks are a wonderful tool to encourage creativity and imagination. Blocks are also a wonderful tool to teach basic lessons in a fun and engaging way. You will need Mega Blocks, Legos, or some other sort of blocks which fit together for the best results.
What You Need:
Mega Blocks (or the alike)
All Purpose Labels (a size that will fit across the side of your block but not touching where the block connects with other blocks)
Permanent Marker
What You Do:
On your labels you will want to write letters, words, numbers, and signs of operations. For the word matching game you will want to print the word on one and an image of the word on the other label. Stick the labels on the sides of the blocks. You will want the child to connect the blocks so be sure the label fits properly and does not hinder building. Your child will build the blocks to form a word, number sentence or match items.
Teaching ABCs: Label your blocks with the letters A through Z and have your child connect the blocks in the correct order.
Teaching Words: Have your child connect the blocks with letters to form a word. As your child learns more words you can make labels with words and have her connect the blocks to form sentences.
Teaching Number Order: Label your blocks with your number labels. The number you end with is up to you. You can also use this to teach skip counting. Have your child put the blocks together in proper number order. As the child puts the blocks together it will take as many blocks as the number so you child can also count the blocks and connect the number with the “how many”.
Teaching Math Skills: On several of the blocks put labels with signs of operations and simply have the child connect a number sentence and answer.
Word Matching: Have your child connect the word on a block and the image that corresponds on the block.
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