Block Play

by Michaela McCune Lew

This book is a fantastic addition to block play areas in schools and early learning centres. Photographs of iconic structures from around the world will capture children’s interest and provide inspiration for new creations.

Child-friendly graphics can be used to discuss structures children might want to plan and build. Who lives in this house/castle/boat? Where would the helicopter land? There are lots of opportunities for discussion and for children to develop skills as they build!

When children engage in block play, they are developing a variety of

fine and gross motor, hand-eye coordination, spatial awareness
Social and autonomy, turn-taking, co-operation, resilience, negotiation
Language, communication and reciprocal conversations, new vocabulary, storytelling
size, shape, order, 1:1 correspondence, comparison, measure
Creativity and imagination, mark making, divergent thinking
cause and effect, hypothetical thinking, problem solving

68 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 30, 2024

About the author

Michaela McCune is an elementary teacher who loves to tell stories through music, through art, and through her debut novel, Memories of the Rising Sun. This novel is a semi-fictional, historic account of her Japanese grandmother's life during WWII.