Fish and Birds

Are they fish in the sea or birds in the sky?

2-stud bricks are animals with two big eyes.
Do you want them to be birds ? Make them fly, eyes at top.
Go for a fish? Make them swim, horizontally.

Goals

To understand the importance of the orientation of the brick.
To participate in own learning and in mastering the content.

The adult prepares

1 baseplate
8 equal sign bricks
10 letter bricks C in a bag

Make a horizontal separation line in the middle of the base plate with the equal sign bricks.

Make the child feel the line in the middle of the baseplate: these are the waves.
Above the waves is the sky, and below is the sea.

The children play

The child picks and feels a brick from the bowl: they are animals. The two studs are its eyes.
The child decides if the animal is a bird or a fish.

if it’s a bird, they place it vertically in the sky, with its eyes at the top, so that it flies up to the sun.

If they decide it’s a fish, they place it horizontally into the sea.

They can make it swim to the right or to the left.

Facilitation tips

Tell animals in the bag are only fish or only birds.
Ask about animals incorrectly positioned: Why is your bird upside down? Why is your fish trying to jump of out the sea?
Use 2 different letter bricks for birds and fish.