Page 18 - Literacy Skills

MIDDLE MATCH

• Work with a partner - children spread their
bricks out; place an object in the middle of the desk.
• Partners take turns to instruct:
• Fix your eyes on the object in the middle.
• Touch a yellow brick … green / red / blue / orange / etc.
without taking your eyes off the object in the middle.

Variations:
• Spread the 12 bricks wider - fix your eyes on the object
in the middle and find the colours called out by your
partner.
• Take turns: No. 1 fixes eyes on object in the middle; No.
2 calls out the colours to touch.
• Use both hands at the same time to touch two bricks of
that colour called out.
• Join up with a third person and work with 18 bricks.

COOL COPIES

• Teacher prepares for herself a set of coloured
cardboard rectangles, the same colours as her
bricks.
• Teacher arranges a shape / pattern on the
chalkboard with her 2D bricks.

Variations:
• Children copy by building that 2D image using
their bricks.
• Teacher covers her 2D bricks once the children
have looked at them for a while.
• Children see if they can build from memory.

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