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When I worked on the preschool lesson plan I found the Duplo Patterns with Lego plastic blocks. I didn't know there were so many things you can do with these blocks. The age group I would work with is the 4-5 year olds children. This activity is very divers. You can do this with younger children by using bigger blocks and you can teach them their colors and help them practice their literacy skills by introducing their colors and numbers in a relaxing atmosphere like playing with blocks.

The developmentally appropriate activity I'd do is the Duplo Patterns with interlocking plastic blocks. Use Interlocking blocks for math skills and problem-solving. You can buy or you're your own note cards. If you make your own you will draw a pattern on large note cards and have the children match the pattern. You can do so many patterns, shapes, different colors. It is endless. You can let your children make their own up. To turn it into a math problem you would make a second set of cards and use subtraction or addition and have the children add or subtract from one set of blocks to the other card. If they are older you can do multiplication and division. By using these blocks it makes the problems more real and gives the children hands on learning.

The two main objectives this activity will focus on are problem-solving and mathematics skills. The children will develop fine motor skills, eye-hand coordination and small muscle movement. Other objectives the children can learn are exploring concepts like early math, geometry, cause and effect. Building blocks enhance children's problem-solving abilities and help build their self-esteem and feelings of success.

The two teaching strategies I would use are the indirect instruction and interactive instruction strategy. Indirect instruction involves the children in observation, investigation, inference, and hypothesis formation. And the interactive instruction strategy encourages students to learn from the teachers and their peers. This strategy is similar to the indirect instruction strategies. These two strategies gives the children freedom to learn and explore what the blocks can do and they sky is the limit.

Some of the open-ended questions I would ask the children area as follows:

1. Which one do youhave more/less of?
2. Describe to me how you got those numbers when you build the blocks that way?
3. What colors do you have more/less of?
4. What else patterns can you do?

Other props we can use are the large print note cards or trays. The large print note cards have the patterns on them that the children will line the blocks onto. We can use the trays and put the note cards into them. The trays can keep the blocks contained in it for easy clean and moving around. If space is an issue you can use the trays. This will help store the blocks easier. Also if there's a home daycare center that has multiple level children the trays maybe better so the small blocks don't get out for the younger children to get a hold of.