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Better Play Builds Better Learners Playing with ROK Blocks fosters important “executive functions” that determine academic readiness and success. ROK Blocks are designed to engage students’ minds, eyes, and fine motor skills in correspondence with the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
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Using These Tips! Playing with your child will have positive developmental impacts. Left on their own, children will often avoid more difficult challenges, like the hinge or swivel blocks. When an adult introduces new possibilities, children tend to persist through to the completion of challenges and learn to ask for help. Help your child visualize the steps required to complete a design.
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Tip Three: Know Your Blocks Certain blocks are inherently more challenging than others. Guide your child through the different combinations and teach them how to make their builds stronger. Becoming familiar with the blocks will inspire innovative use, promote verbal fluency during play, and facilitate fine motor skill development.
BILL OF MATERIALS Counting & comparing • Count the blocks in the left half pyramid and the right half. Which has more blocks? • How many blocks tall is the pyramid? • How many blue, yellow, and green blocks do you have? How many blocks total? blue How many blocks equal...
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BILL OF MATERIALS Analyze, Compare & create shapes • Build the ram and castle wall. Test the wall strength. • How can we make the wall stronger? • Test your solution. Explain what happened. Common Core K.G.B.4-B.6...
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Analyze, Compare & create shapes • What was the difference between the two walls? • Separate the blocks by color. What are the similarities? What are the differences? Common Core K.G.B.4-B.6...
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BILL OF MATERIALS Make sense of problems & persevere in solving them • Build Sad Robot. • Pick up Sad Robot. What happened? • Poor Sad Robot wants to be whole. How can you build him stronger? • Build Happy Robot. How is he different from Sad Robot? Common Core PRACTICE.MP1...
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Left Arm Right Arm Left Leg Right Leg Common Core PRACTICE.MP1...
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BILL OF MATERIALS ClassifY and count objects • Collect the parts seen in the Bill of Materials. • Group all small parts. How many do you have? • Group all large parts. How many do you have? • If you add the small and large parts, how many do you have? Common Core K.MD.B.3...
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BILL OF MATERIALS Describe measurable attributes • Set out a gray half beam and gray full beam. What do you notice about the beams? • How can you tell the full beam is longer than the half beam? • Use the red block to measure the length of both beams.
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BILL OF MATERIALS Classify and count • Group parts by color. • How many groups are there? • What group has the most parts? Common Core K.MD.B.3...
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