Over the last few weeks, we have spent lots of time in our construction and block play area. We are so lucky to have a large selection of block play and construction materials to choose from here at Cart Mill. This gives us the opportunity to explore our creativity through designing and building our own models.
Using one of our house plans as a guide, we chose various sizes of wooden blocks to recreate our own houses! Using our knowledge of shapes, positional language and by working together, we created a living room, dining room, kitchen and bedroom! Ā By adding loose parts, we were able to add some extra special features!
āThereās a kitchen. This is the living room. Weāre going to make a dining roomā.
āThe kitchen is next to the living room. Ā The bathroom is behind the kitchen.ā
āItās got 2 toiletsā.
āThese are the statues. My mummy has statues in the bathroomā.
āIt has a chimney. Steam comes out of it and the bad guys canāt come in!ā Ā āThis is my bedroom. Ā Iām putting a cushion in to lie onā.
Using smaller blocks gives us the opportunity to develop both our fine motor and problem solving skills by discovering how to connect the blocks together to build our models.
We all love playing with our stickle bricks and Lego. Ā Sometimes it can be really tricky to fit the blocks together. With a bit of patience, perseverance and using our fantastic imaginations, we have created some fantastic models!
āItās a birthday cake with candles on itā.
āItās a Tā.
āI made a play park. Ā It has a climbing frame, a slide and a swimming poolā.
Working together and sharing our ideas, we were able to create our very own Cart Mill Lego city! Isnāt it fabulous! We think we would have lots of fun living there! Ā Can you recognise the special people who live there?
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āThe swimming pool looks like so much fun. It has a bit to jump off into the water and you go up the stairs and through the door to get to the slide. Ā Itās got a cafe if we are hungry!ā.
To challenge ourselves further, we decided to take our block building Ā outside! It was so much fun! Working together, we placed the blocks carefully in front and behind each other to create a path all round the Cart Ā Mill garden! It was sooooo big and meant we were able to walk all round the garden without our feet touching the ground (the floor is lava after all!).
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