Page 23 - Perceptual skills development

BRICK COLOURS

• Teacher calls out the names of the colours.
• Children arrange the bricks in that order, from left
to right.
• Now stack them from bottom to top, as the
teacher calls out the colours again.

Q: Did you get the correct colour sequence?

• Teacher calls out 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 colours at a time,
depending on the children’s ability.
• Try different ways: top to bottom / zig-zag left to
right / one up one down, etc.

KIM“S GAME

• Teacher arranges his / her 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 bricks
on an A4 card, and hides this in front of the
classroom so that the children cannot see
the layout. The bricks can be placed in
various sequences and different orientations.
• Groups of children take turns to come up to
Teacher’s desk and look at the arrangement
for a couple of seconds.
• They then return to their bricks and, also
working on an A4 piece of paper / card, see
if they can recall the layout and build it with
their bricks.
• Depending on the level of the class, Teacher
could allow them to return to Teacher’s desk
once or twice to check and then go back to
their models or they could only have one
turn to look before trying to build the layout.

Q: Who can remember everything on the
card?

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