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Finish the Road

Caution, road works! Finish the road so that people and cars can get through.

Pre-braille Activity

  • Brick orientation
  • Fine motor skills
  • Pretend play
  • Spatial concepts

Level: 1

Number of players: 1

Duration: 10 min

Skills:

  • Build a construction

  • Know the characteristics of shapes and objects

  • Engage in pretend-play sequences

  • Accept rules

Do you want to drive your car across the baseplate? Make a line of bricks to build a good road and off you go!

Goals

To learn left to right reading direction.
Use notions of alignment to complete and follow a line of bricks.

The adult prepares

  • 1 baseplate

  • 8 random bricks

  • 1 bowl

  • A mini car or a mini figure.


Place one brick horizontally on the baseplate at the top left corner, to begin the road.

The children play

1

Show the child the beginning of the road.
Ask them to finish the road by putting more bricks in a line on the baseplate

2

When the road is finished, give the child a mini figure or a car to walk or drive along the road.

For the car to be able to drive, it needs a road.
And here it’s not really a road.
It’s just a big baseplate.
That’s only the beginning of the road. Can you finish it?
So we take one brick and we attach it here.
So we continue the road. Good, that’s amazing.
Really great. You are a builder.
Okay. I’m building the car.
Okay, look, look.
It’s not…
Okay.
We need to change the orientation of the brick
so it can go with the road. Yes.
So we have two hands, it will be easier. Yes.
And look at what’s happening here.
Did you finish the road?
Yes.
Yes you did. Good.
So now, show me what you can do on the road with the car.

Facilitation tips

  • Begin the road with 2 or 3 bricks to make the activity easier.

  • Ask the child to follow the road with their index finger.

  • Affix the base plate to the wall for a change of perspective.

  • Add more roads, create a vertical road, a road with turns, a twisty road.