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Learning with LEGo - junior version Pages 2-3: Color Words Use letter tiles to build the words. Page 4: Maze Page 5: Lego Graphing Grab a scoop of LEGO bricks and graph them by color. Page 6: Roll a Minifigure Game Gather all your minifigure pieces and play this fun game! Pages 7-8: Math Concepts (addition, subtraction, memory) Place a few bricks on the mat; let your child see/count them. Have your child close his eyes. Add or remove a few more bricks (add for the dump truck, remove for the loader). Can your child figure out how many more (or less) bricks there are? Page 9: Building Challenges Cut the strips apart and put them in a cup. Let your student pull one strip from the cup each day and work on her challenge! Page 10: Hundred Chart Here are a few suggestions for this chart: 1. Play race to one hundred. Each player gets a Lego to move around the board. Roll the dice and go! Who will win? 2. Number recognition Call out a number and let your student find it and cover it with a brick. For a more advanced version of this game, call out a number and tell your student to cover the number that comes before (or after) the number you called out. 3. Practice counting by 1s or 10s. Pages 11-12: Lego Patterns Put LEGO bricks on the pattern sheets. Discuss and continue the patterns. Use page 12 to make your own patterns. Page 13: Knock-Out Game Laminate, if desired. Cut into strips and tape the two strips together (numbers should be in order). You will need a pair of dice for this game. Let your student roll the dice. Add the sum and place a LEGO on the number. Try to knock out all the numbers! Page 14: LEGO Measurements Guess how many LEGO bricks tall each item is. Record your guess. Use LEGO bricks to measure the items and record the actual heights. Page 15: Measuring Up (LEGO Towers!) Ask your student to make a tall tower. Measure it (in inches) and record the measurement on the chart. Let him draw a picture of the tower (above the measurement). Ask him to try to build a second tower that is even TALLER than the first. Record meas- urement and draw. Ask him to build a third tower that is the TALLEST he can possibly build! Record measurement and draw. Page 16: Dump Truck Math Mat Laminate the math mat. Write a number in the square (with a dry erase marker) and have your student place the correct num- ber of LEGO bricks on the math mat. Erase the number, write another number on the mat, and continue. Page 17: Positional Words & Ordinal Numbers (ideas) Page 18: LEGO Magazine ABC Let your student hunt through his old LEGO magazines* and cut out letters of the alphabet. Glue the letters to the appropriate places on the ABC page. *it’s a FREE subscription! www.walkingbytheway.com Please do not hotlink to this document.

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Page 1: Learning with LEGo - junior version · Call out a number and let your student find it and cover it with a brick For a more advanced version of this game call out a number and tell

Learning with LEGo - junior version Pages 2-3: Color Words

Use letter tiles to build the words.

Page 4: Maze

Page 5: Lego Graphing

Grab a scoop of LEGO bricks and graph them by color.

Page 6: Roll a Minifigure Game

Gather all your minifigure pieces and play this fun game!

Pages 7-8: Math Concepts (addition, subtraction, memory)

Place a few bricks on the mat; let your child see/count them. Have your child close his eyes. Add or remove a few more bricks

(add for the dump truck, remove for the loader). Can your child figure out how many more (or less) bricks there are?

Page 9: Building Challenges

Cut the strips apart and put them in a cup. Let your student pull one strip from the cup each day and work on her challenge!

Page 10: Hundred Chart

Here are a few suggestions for this chart:

1. Play race to one hundred. Each player gets a Lego to move around the board. Roll the dice and go! Who will win?

2. Number recognition

Call out a number and let your student find it and cover it with a brick. For a more advanced version of this game, call out a

number and tell your student to cover the number that comes before (or after) the number you called out.

3. Practice counting by 1s or 10s.

Pages 11-12: Lego Patterns

Put LEGO bricks on the pattern sheets. Discuss and continue the patterns. Use page 12 to make your own patterns.

Page 13: Knock-Out Game

Laminate, if desired. Cut into strips and tape the two strips together (numbers should be in order). You will need a pair of dice

for this game. Let your student roll the dice. Add the sum and place a LEGO on the number. Try to knock out all the numbers!

Page 14: LEGO Measurements

Guess how many LEGO bricks tall each item is. Record your guess. Use LEGO bricks to measure the items and record the actual

heights.

Page 15: Measuring Up (LEGO Towers!)

Ask your student to make a tall tower. Measure it (in inches) and record the measurement on the chart. Let him draw a picture

of the tower (above the measurement). Ask him to try to build a second tower that is even TALLER than the first. Record meas-

urement and draw. Ask him to build a third tower that is the TALLEST he can possibly build! Record measurement and draw.

Page 16: Dump Truck Math Mat

Laminate the math mat. Write a number in the square (with a dry erase marker) and have your student place the correct num-

ber of LEGO bricks on the math mat. Erase the number, write another number on the mat, and continue.

Page 17: Positional Words & Ordinal Numbers (ideas)

Page 18: LEGO Magazine ABC

Let your student hunt through his old LEGO magazines* and cut out letters of the alphabet. Glue the letters to the appropriate

places on the ABC page. *it’s a FREE subscription!

www.walkingbytheway.com

Please do not hotlink to this document.

Page 2: Learning with LEGo - junior version · Call out a number and let your student find it and cover it with a brick For a more advanced version of this game call out a number and tell

b l

u e

o r

a n

g e

y e

l l

o w

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g r

e e

n

r e

d

p u

r p

l e

Page 4: Learning with LEGo - junior version · Call out a number and let your student find it and cover it with a brick For a more advanced version of this game call out a number and tell

Help the loader find his way

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10 10 10 10 10 10

9 9 9 9 9 9

8 8 8 8 8 8

7 7 7 7 7 7

6 6 6 6 6 6

5 5 5 5 5 5

4 4 4 4 4 4

3 3 3 3 3 3

2 2 2 2 2 2

1 1 1 1 1 1

green blue orange black red gray

Page 6: Learning with LEGo - junior version · Call out a number and let your student find it and cover it with a brick For a more advanced version of this game call out a number and tell

roll a lego minifigure!

choose a shirt with

arms

choose legs

choose a head

choose a hat, hair,

or helmet for

your figure

choose an accessory

for your figure

take one of your

opponent’s pieces

away

Gather all your LEGO minifigure pieces. Take turns rolling a die. Follow

the instructions on the chart.You can’t assemble your figure until

you have ALL your pieces! The first person to assemble a complete

minifigure wins!

Page 7: Learning with LEGo - junior version · Call out a number and let your student find it and cover it with a brick For a more advanced version of this game call out a number and tell

Dudley the Dump Truck

brought you some

bricks while your eyes

were closed. How

many did he bring?

Page 8: Learning with LEGo - junior version · Call out a number and let your student find it and cover it with a brick For a more advanced version of this game call out a number and tell

Freddy the Front Loader

took some bricks

while your eyes

were closed. How

many did he take?

Page 9: Learning with LEGo - junior version · Call out a number and let your student find it and cover it with a brick For a more advanced version of this game call out a number and tell

Design a space ship

Create an evil villain

Build a house you’d like to live in

Make your favorite animal

Construct a cool car

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30

31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40

41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50

51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60

61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70

71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80

81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90

Lego hundred chart

91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100

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2

4

5

3

7

6

8

12

9

11

10

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item My guess actual

Lego measurements

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My first tower was ________

inches tall.

My second tower was ________

inches tall.

My third tower was ________

inches tall.

Measuring up

Page 16: Learning with LEGo - junior version · Call out a number and let your student find it and cover it with a brick For a more advanced version of this game call out a number and tell

Load the dump truck with legos!

Page 17: Learning with LEGo - junior version · Call out a number and let your student find it and cover it with a brick For a more advanced version of this game call out a number and tell

Position Words

Call out the following instructions for your child.

1. Put a small green brick on a large red brick.

2. Put two blue bricks under a black brick.

3. Put three yellow bricks together. Place an orange brick

behind the yellow bricks.

4. Put a red brick and a blue brick on the table. Put a black

brick between the bricks.

5. Put a pile of bricks on the table. Drive a vehicle around

the bricks.

Ordinal Numbers

1. Put ten blocks on the table in a row (as many different

colors as possible).

2. Ask your student which one is first, second, third, etc.

3. If your child is ready for more, make three lines of ten

bricks. Ask him to find the 21st brick, the 34th brick, etc.

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a b c d e

f g h i j

k l m n o

p q r s t

u v w x y

z Lego magazine ABc!