Page 7 - Literacy Skills

PEG IT!

For this exercise the teacher will have to bring clothes
pegs to the class.

• Each child spreads their 6 bricks randomly in front of them.
• Each child has a clothes peg.

Q: Can you pick up the light blue brick and place it in front
of you, using your peg in your dominant / non-dominant
hand?
Q: How quickly can you balance the rest of the bricks on
top of that light blue brick - using the peg?
Q: Can you build it vertically?

HORIZONTAL

AND

VERTICAL

• Children work individually with their 6 bricks.
• Teach the children about vertical lines and
horizontal lines.
• Children build a horizontal line using all 6 bricks.
• Children build a vertical line using all 6
bricks - flat on their desk / floor.
• Children build a vertical column by:
- clicking bricks on top of each other
- placing the bricks on top of each other using
the small / long side of the brick. (Children
will have to place the bricks carefully -
should be able to build 4 bricks easily but
building 5 or 6 bricks will be more difficult.)

Variations:
• Children build a pattern using their bricks
in either vertical or horizontal position.
• Work in groups of 4 to make
larger patterns using
vertical and horizontal
positions.

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