Page 22 - Numeracy Skills

COLOUR CAPERS

• Work with a partner; both children have their 6
bricks randomly spread in front of them.
• Look at the colours your friend is wearing. Build a
tower of colours according to your friend’s clothes
- start at the feet and work your way up.
• Describe the tower to your friend, e.g. blue shoes,
red pants, yellow t-shirt, etc.
• Swop over.

Variations:
• Extend to a group activity in which children work
in groups of 4 - 6. All pile the 6 bricks into the
middle.
• Build a graph of colours being worn on any 3
members of that group.
• Leader controls the count - let’s see how many
times red is being worn? Children count and
collect the number of red bricks needed, etc. until
all the colours have been dealt with.
• Collect and place the bricks so as to create a
graph.

COUNT IN
Q: Which colour is the most / least
prominent today in those 3 children? TWOs

• Teacher instructs the children to place any 1
brick in front of them.
• Now build a shape covering firstly, any 2
studs.
• Next cover any 4 studs (keeping the model
stable at all times).
• Then cover any 6 studs; then 8 studs.

Variations:
• Work with a partner and take turns to build in
2s, as above, this time with 12 bricks.
• As you reach the numbers past 8, you will
need 2 bricks to cover, e.g. 10, 12, 14.
• Work in 3s -16, 18, etc.
• Work in 4s - 20, 22, etc.
• Variations of this activity - cover 3, 6, 9 studs.

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