Broadcasting the news using Lego

Yesterday, I blogged about using lego to inspire writing, you can read it here.  Today, I wanted to see other ways in which lego can inspire learning.

With Year 4, we looked at recreating the news.  We first looked at some child-friendly news websites (newsround and first news) to look at different news stories to use. The children then extracted all the key information from the article and noted it onto a planning sheet. They used the lego to build a scene of the story. Using the Story Visualiser app, which is included as part of the story starter kit, they designed their own newspaper article. Next time, I may well use comic life as there are more options to use and the text is easier to manipulate.

Here are some of the children's examples -






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