Page 31 - Perceptual skills development

RHYTHM MANIA

• Children work in a group of 4, all bring their 6 bricks
to the play space.
• Teacher plays a rhythm, using body percussion,
e.g. click, clap, click, clap.
• Children in the group quickly discuss how they will
interpret that sound sequence with their bricks.

Variations:
• Same activity but increase the level of difficulty of
the pattern, e.g. click, click, clap; click, click, clap or
stamp, click, clap, etc.
• Teacher performs a movement series and asks the
class to copy her, e.g. hop to left, bend knees, jump
/ hop to left, bend knees, jump…
• Children discuss how they will show that movement
using bricks, e.g.

GROUP

SELECTION

• The teacher can use the 6 bricks to
determine in which group they will be
placed.
• Depending on the number of groups
required, use the children’s bricks to place
equal numbers of coloured bricks into a
bag.
• E.g: for a group of 30 children who must
be placed into 5 different groups - collect
5 different colours from some of the
children equalling 30 bricks.
• Each child dips into the bag and selects
a brick. The colour of their brick will
determine which group they are in.

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