For Teachers - Parents - Fans of Children:
Block play with any materials that can safely be stacked, layered, lined up, built up, and built outward can foster rich mathematical language as well as dramatic storytelling abilities.
Children are naturals at identifying unexpected building toys, and if you’ve ever noticed a little one in a restaurant busily arranging salt shakers, sugar packets, and silverware into buildings, barnyards, and busy highway systems, you’ll know what I mean.....
Head on over to Tweetspeak Poetry to read the whole piece! Building Minds: Block Play as a Writing, Thinking, and Math Tool, originally published there on December 18, 2015.
Children are naturals at identifying unexpected building toys, and if you’ve ever noticed a little one in a restaurant busily arranging salt shakers, sugar packets, and silverware into buildings, barnyards, and busy highway systems, you’ll know what I mean.....
Head on over to Tweetspeak Poetry to read the whole piece! Building Minds: Block Play as a Writing, Thinking, and Math Tool, originally published there on December 18, 2015.
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