Page 40 - Perceptual skills development

COLOUR SORT

• Teacher places one of each colour brick in a space
in the classroom.
• The children have to sort and place their bricks into
those colour areas as quickly as they can.

Q: Can you get rid of all your bricks before Teacher
rings the bell to stop?
Q: How many of each colour brick is there?

• Now see how quickly you can get your 6 bricks, one
of each colour, back again.

Q: Who can be the first to get back to their seats,
with their 6 bricks stacked / cubed / in any order
/ according to the order given by Teacher.

TACTILE

BUILD

• Work with a partner.
• Child No. 1 builds any model with his / her 6
bricks.
• Give the model to child No. 2 who must close
his / her eyes (don’t peep!) and feel the model
with his / her fingers.
• Child No. 2 then attempts to build that model
(disregarding the colours) after having felt it.
• Swop roles and repeat the exercise.

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