The Importance of Building Blocks in Teaching Children

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Hi I'm Pam on behalf of Expert Village and I'm going to teach you how to bring home fundamentals learned at school. Now many parents may think that a block center kids are just playing with blocks, but they're actually a lot of skills that are going to help them later in life. For instance, they're learning to negotiate over materials that they want to use. For instance, say you have two cars, and one kid has both of them another kid might come up and suggest that his favorite color's green. So maybe it's really nice if, you know, if he gave him the car. They're negotiating and learning how to get people to cooperate with them. Now when they carry and carefully place blocks in to a certain thing they're actually building small muscles. When they're balancing blocks they're developing small muscles. They're improving their hand eye coordination when they try to line blocks up. This also gives them the opportunity to use their brain and recreate things that they've seen in real life. For instance if you ask them to go build a house, many of them, however they get it to stay; they're going to make a pointed roof. They can recreate things that they've actually seen. Now, you may wonder how can I bring this home and play with my kids in the same way. Well, get them talking. Kids love to talk about what they're doing. So for instance if you see them building a road. You can come up to them and say "Hey, I see a stop sign here don't you see stop signs along the side of the road?" or "This, this is a turn signal. Would you put that up there?" and they'll go "Yeah yeah I saw one and I think they should stop right here and yeah he's going to ride on this side of the road." And he's going to be stopped at the stop sign. Kids will get talking once you get them started. This is great way to brings that they're learning in blocks and to share with you at home.

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