The Block and Construction Centre provides many learning opportunities for our students.
They learn to:
- experiment with building using a variety of different types of blocks
- fosters co-operative play (planning and problem solving)
- develops gross and fine motor control
- extend imaginative role-play and oral language
- explores math concepts (counting, comparing, estimating, sorting, height, area, measuring space)
- explore scientific concepts (balance, simple machines, structures, design process)
Students bring in a variety of materials and manipulatives into their designs and creations.
- Students have been building baby nurseries, houses, beauty parlors, stoves, garages, helicopters, bridges, transformers, motorcycles, dog houses and the list goes on.