Junior Infants have had lots of fun recently learning all about directional language. They have taken part in lots of hands on activities which incorporated directions and directional language but also lots of creativity, problem solving and engineering in the mix too!
One activity they took part in was to create mazes from our Lego boards and lego to create a clever maze for which a ball or marble needed to make its way through. The children had to work bery patiently in groups to design their own mazes and had to think with an engineering mind to over come problems such as:
-How do we get the ball to take the path we want it to take?
How do we stop the ball from bouncing over the lego walls?
what happens if we make the ball roll faster/slower?
What happens if the path isn’t wide enough for the ball?
what happens if we use a dice instead of a ball?
We took some pictures and videos to share of some of our creations! See if you can spot any of the clever booby traps that were included in some of the mazes!
We also put our directional language skills into use with some coding by exploring directions with our school set of BeeBots and BeeBot mats! BeeBots are really clever computer robots that need to be programmed to move. However, if you programme them wrong and give them the wrong directions they will get lost on their town maps and wont make it to the desired location! The children were so good at their directions in Junior Infants however that all the Beebots are accounted for and a search party wasn’t required to get any of them back to the charging dock!
