LegoMania

The last week of November and the first week of December were spent learning through Legos.  We planned our first family theme park adventure to Legoland in Winter Haven, Florida at the end of the unit.  It was a nice break from our normal routine, and the boys had a blast with both the unit and the trip to Legoland (of course!).

Reading:

Cut and sort the Lego characters (this was a Sawyer activity)

Here I took sight words and found a worksheet that I could print out with the
spaces for each letter.  I put labels with letters onto separate Legos and Hayden
would connect them together to form his words.  Then he had to find the blanks
that matched his word.

Using Scrabble tiles to spell the colors of the Legos.

Sawyer assembling the letters of the alphabet

Hayden hunts for letters of the alphabet in one of his Lego magazines

Matching the minifigure to the correct sentence.

After matching the minifigure to the correct sentence, the boys were able
to figure out what each minifigure was called (i.e. viking, snowboarder, robot, etc.)

Writing:

Lego figures with sentences to describe them.  Hayden had to fill in the blank
with the words given at the top.  Sawyer had to trace the words.

Here, Hayden had to look at the Lego scene and describe in a sentence what
he saw.

Using Legos instead of playdoh to cover the letters in our sight words.

Math:

Here, we took a handful of Legos.  They had to sort and count the different
colors.  Then, we put them on a graphing chart.

Sawyer's Graph

Hayden's Graph

Seeing how well the boys can listen to and follow directions.  After a pile of
Legos was put in front of them, they had to choose the color Legos I told them
to get and put them either on top of, in front of, behind, or underneath another
Lego.

Ordinal positions:  He had to tell me which Lego was first, second, third, last, etc.

I put a handful of Legos on the sheet of paper.  The boys had
to close their eyes while I took a certain number of them away.  Then they
opened their eyes and had to figure out how many I took.  We also did the
reverse where I added to the amount rather than take away.

Other Fun Activities:

We found a Lego online game through Zoodles.com

One of the games on Zoodles.

They had a building challenge each day.  This day was to build a favorite animal.

Roll-a-Minifigure activity.  We took turns rolling the die.  Depending on the
number rolled, we got to choose a head, torso, accessory, legs, etc.  The first one
to get all the parts won the game.

Finished minifigures that the boys built.

Thus ends our Lego Unit.  

Pictures from our trip to Legoland will be in a separate post.