Page 16 - Perceptual skills development

BUILDING A TOWER

• Children use their 6 bricks to build a tower.

Q: How many different ways can you build a
tower?
Q: Can you balance your bricks end to end?
Q: Can you do this with your eyes closed?
Q: Is this taller than the other towers you
have built?
Q: Can you stack your bricks with your eyes
closed?

POSITIONAL

ORDER

• Children have their 6 bricks randomly spread
out in front of them.
• Teacher calls out one instruction first: E.g.
Place your red brick in front of you.
• Children carry out the instruction.
• Teacher then calls out 2 / 3 instructions.
Children listen first, and then react.
• E.g. Place the blue brick behind the red brick
and connect them with a yellow brick.
• Build a set of steps using red, yellow, blue; red
is the first step, yellow the 2nd and blue the
3rd.

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