I can’t believe how excited the children get at the mention of Lego. My school has golden time on Friday afternoons, where the children get to pick activities to do such as using the laptops, building with Knex, playing boardgames, drawing and playing scrabble. So many children go for the option of building with Lego. They love sharing their new creations and feel deflated if asked to break them up ready for next time.
On their class page in our learning portal, the children tend to click on the links to reasonably clever kid safe website. They have the opportunity to create their own lego characters which they can save as jpg.
Due to the children’s enthusiasm for Lego, I am going to integrate its use into my teaching. We are currently studying one of the film versions of Treasure Island. One of the activities I have planned for the children is for the small groups to plan a scene from the film to re-enact with the Lego and take pictures in order to create an animation using Powerpoint. Captions and Speech will be added to enhance the animation.
