For engaging children's hands, minds, and imaginations, no tool surpasses blocks. Engrossed in building with blocks, the child is a mathematician, scientist, architect, stage designer, and story teller. As children build together, they stretch and grow as problem solvers,and collaborators.
Potential Contributions to Early Childhood Learning
Social Emotional Growth: Feelings of competence, cooperation, clean up, respect for the work of others, autonomy, and initiative
Science: Trial and error, inductive thinking, discovery, inclined plane ramps, interaction of forces, balance, weight, stability, & gravity. Physical development: Visual perception, eye-hand coordination, hand manipulation. Mathematics: Patterns, shape, symmetry, mapping, inequality of size, (more than and less than). classification, fractions, depth, width, height, length, area, & measurement. Language Arts: Planning of building, naming of building, function of building, stories about building, exchange of ideas, questions and concepts, vocabulary development.
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