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PASS ON

• Children have their bricks randomly placed on their
desk in front of them.
• One child in the class will be called on to start.
• The teacher gives the child a baseplate on which to
build.
• The child places any 2 of his / her bricks together in
any way, and then passes the baseplate to the child
behind him / her, who adds 2 bricks to the model.
• The plate is passed from child to child, each child
adding two bricks.
• The last child to build attempts to create a story /
explanation about the model created.

Variations:
• Increase the number of bricks that each child may add.
• To end the activity, reverse the game. Each child must
remove the bricks missing from their stack without
completely breaking the model as they do so.

COMMUNICATION

tALE 1

• Children work in groups of 4. Place all their
bricks together. One person is chosen as the
group communicator.
• The teacher builds a house or any model
using e.g. 3 red, blue and green bricks. This
model is placed outside the classroom where
the children cannot see it.
• The group communicator then goes outside
the class and looks carefully at the model.
He / She comes back to their group and
explains verbally how to build the model using
oral instructions only.
• The group communicator may not assist with
the building of the model. He / She may go
in and out of the classroom as many times as
required to get his / her group to complete the
model.
• The first group to finish correctly is the winner.

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