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Hi, I am a mum and a teacher and during this strange and uncertain times, I will be home with a 7, 4 and 2 year old. I teach 2 days a week at a Catholic Primary School. I thought i would start a blog to share some activities I will do with my kids as well as some advice wearing my teacher hat. Will I be going crazy at home with my children? Yes, but this is also a chance to bond with them and reassure them that they are loved and we will all be ok! As a teacher, normally when there is something big going on in the world, we are with our students, helping and guiding them as well as offering routine and stability. I think the fact that we aren't with our students during this time is the reason so many teachers are offering assistance and help to anyone they can. Please feel free to use anything on this Blog. i am by no means an expert or guru and a lot of the ideas and activities are not mine but have been shared with me by excellent, hard working teachers or fantastic, loving and real mothers.

Sunday, April 19, 2020

Lego Maths

Mr I's teachers have sent detail and easy to follow planners throughout the first week of remote learning. We haven't got through everything but to keep him engaged I have adapted some of his lessons. I found this excellent website of ideas for using Lego to teach Mathematics. They have some good ideas for our kinder children too.


Make the first half of a pattern and have your child complete it. Maths is full of patterns. 

Speaking of patterns. Write skip counting patterns on Lego blocks and have children break them apart and put them back together in the correct order.

The same activity can be done with the numbers 1 to 20 for younger children.

Any activity the requires a number line such as working out addition and subtraction equations can be done on this number line.

Lastly, place value is a really tricky concept. We used Lego. When you get to 10 blocks, you join them and move the tower to the tens column. Then record the number of 10s and 1s.

More activities can be found at

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