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MODEL BUILD

• Children pick up any two bricks.

Q: What is the purpose of the studs?
Q: How many different ways can you connect 2 bricks to
click together?
Q: Can you try it?

• Children use their 6 bricks to build any model.

Q: What have you built? Describe it.
Q: Does your model have a name?
Q: What can it do?
Q: What sound does it make?

SEQUENCE

SWOP

• Teacher prepares his / her bricks in a
certain order.
• Children copy.
• Children turn around while the teacher
re-arranges 2 of the bricks in his / her
sequence.
• Children compare the teacher’s sequence
with theirs and quickly change theirs to
match the teacher’s once again.
• Teacher changes 3 / 4 bricks.

Variations:
• Work with a partner.
• Take turns to change the arrangement and
spot the changes.
• Child No. 1 arranges the 6 bricks and
No. 2 looks at them and copies the exact
sequence.
• Child No. 1 removes 1 or 2 bricks; Child
No. 2 tries to spot which bricks have been
removed.

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