Optional Opening Game

Let’s play a fun game that will get us up and moving around to begin today’s lesson. In this game, you will work together to build a tower with the blocks.

Have children form a line next to the pile of blocks. One child at a time will pick up a block and travel (see options below) to the table to build a tower. Once a block is placed for the tower, the next child takes a turn and carefully places a block on top of the first block until all the children have taken a turn. If the tower falls before it is completed, you can assist the child at the table to reconstruct it.

Optional: Announce how each child will travel to the table with a block: skip, hop on one leg, hop on two legs, tiptoe, walk backward, walk sideways, balance the block on two fingers or on top of the head, etc.

When the tower is complete, the children can celebrate together. Then, tell the children that you are going to knock the tower down. Ask the children how it felt to see the tower grow taller, and then ask how it felt to see it knocked down.

If time permits, have the children return the blocks to the pile. Repeat the game with children carrying two blocks to the table to build a tower with blocks side by side and continue as high as it can go before toppling.

Conclusion: You worked together to build an awesome, tall tower. Then I knocked it down. In our video today, Miss Tina will talk about making choices to build up or tear down. For now, it’s time to see what the Object to Go is for today.