LEGOS

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Quite a few years ago, we attended a birthday party for a little boy my daughter’s age.  
When I asked the boy’s mom what things he liked, so I could purchase him a gift, she told me LEGOS.  It was his obsession and how he spent every free minute he had. She went on to explain how irritated she’d get with him because he would constantly sneak into his room during “school time” if she didn’t pay constant attention to him.  His obsession with LEGOS was destroying her homeschool schedule.

I couldn’t stop thinking about her dilemma, long after I left her house.  “Why not incorporate LEGOS into your homeschool?” I asked her the next time I saw her.  She looked at me like I was insane and laughed it off.

Well, I decided it was something I would implement in my homeschool life.  

Legos are so much more than just some frivolous toy.  
Playing with legos can:

• Encourage creativity
• Promote problem-solving skills
• Refine fine motor skills
• Teach persistence
• Enhance determination and concentration abilities
• Provide a sense of pride and accomplishment

There are so many different ways to incorporate LEGOS into your homeschooling day.

• Toddlers:
• Use them to introduce and practice counting and colors
• Use them to build simple animals and introduce animal sounds

• Preschoolers:
• Reinforce counting and color skills.
• Learn to make simple objects or simple shapes
• Use them to form letters and introduce their sounds

• Elementary Aged/Middle Schoolers:
• Use them to reinforce basic math skills.
• Weekly Lego Club.
• Architectural designs.
• Story Telling
• Construct Story Scenes
• Create continents
• Creative Writing: write a story about your creation
• Bridges
• Pulleys
• Vehicles
• History–recreating places
• Spelling out words

I encourage you to allow your child to play with Legos. Encourage their creativity and let their imaginations go wild!
4H even has a Lego project that can inspire your child even more.
We are fortunate enough to have a local public library that offers a Lego club. Yours may too!
Check out my earlier blog post on public libraries here for more library ideas:https://learningisawayoflife.com/public-libraries/

A fun field trip would be to LEGOLAND! We went to the one at Mall of America, but I know there are more around the country too. Check out which is closest to you and make a day trip out of it.

My teen boys love playing with Legos and I’ve even caught my husband caught up re-creating different scenes with my youngest.

When you find something that you feel is hindering your “homeschool”, I encourage you to find ways to embrace and incorporate it.
Learning is a way of life and comes in so many different shapes and sizes. You may just find out that you can learn to love LEGOS as much as your child does.

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