{"id":23706,"date":"2023-03-06T16:55:17","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T16:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/?p=23706"},"modified":"2023-03-06T16:55:17","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T16:55:17","slug":"froebelian-fun-with-block-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/2023\/03\/06\/froebelian-fun-with-block-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Froebelian Fun with block play"},"content":{"rendered":"

We have been continuing our exploration of our seven stages of block play in our Discovery room this month. This week, we have been looking at stage 5, \u201cpatterns and symmetry\u201d. Some of our children have been observed creating wonderful block builds using this stage without any adult intervention. This stage of block play encourages the children to use more blocks, incorporating balance and pattern as they become more intentional in their selection of the kinds of blocks they want to use.
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\nThe children are so pleased with the creations they built. This was was a \u201czoo\u201d.
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\nWe were able to make symmetrical builds and describe how they were the same. We were able to pick from our vast selection of wooden blocks which shape we required.
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\nWe all worked together today with our stage 5 builds. We created a \u201ccity centre.\u201d We had fun discussing with each other what type of buildings we need as part of the city centre.
\nTo further develop our stages of block play, we introduced the Froebel gifts. These were developed by a pioneer of early years from \u00a0the 1840s named Friedrich Froebel. Today in many nursery\/schools we still follow the principles outlined in the Froebelian Approach. \u00a0His theory is still highly regarded in education.
\nWe looked at gift 5 which was a selection of small wooden cubes and 3D triangles.<\/p>\n

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We were very curious about the shapes and sizes of the blocks. We discovered we could put two of the triangle blocks together to create a cube.
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\nOur stages of block play were evident here as some of our children were using stage 2 \u201cstacking\u201d with the blocks.
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\nWe have seen more spontaneous \u00a0stage 5 builds. \u201cPatterns and symmetry\u201d.<\/p>\n

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As the children were showing high levels of engagement in this learning experience, we introduced another one of the Froebel gifts.
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\nThe children were able to use their own creative thinking to use each of the different sizes of coloured wooden sticks to make something. We made patterns, fireworks, shapes, aliens, and even 3D houses.
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We even used our imagination to create \u201cchopsticks\u201d.
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We really enjoyed exploring the Froebel gifts. We will continue to explore our stages of block play and introduce more of the Froebel gifts into our play.<\/p>\n

Article 31 – \u201cyou have the right to play and relax by doing things such as sports, music and drama\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We have been continuing our exploration of our seven stages of block play in our Discovery room this month. This week, we have been looking at stage 5, \u201cpatterns and symmetry\u201d. Some of our children have been observed creating wonderful block builds using this stage without any adult intervention. This stage of block play encourages … Continue reading Froebelian Fun with block play<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36351,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2508],"tags":[288041,445983,447166,447156,383198],"class_list":["post-23706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-expressive-arts","tag-block-play","tag-froebel","tag-froebel-gifts","tag-stages-of-block-play","tag-wooden-blocks"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36351"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23706"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23763,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23706\/revisions\/23763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}