Building Materials

For a long time we had large blocks at our construction centre. Great collaboration was happening as the children built together. After two months we noticed that the small log blocks were not being used and we wondered if the big blocks were taking away from other materials we had placed out. 

We decided to let another teacher take on our big blocks and watch what happened. The children continued to build as they had done before, but they were using more detail in their construction and problem solving ways of constructing using smaller blocks.

We found that children would bring smaller materials from different centres to add to their constructions. We have not had the big blocks for over two months and not one child has asked that we bring back the larger blocks!