The role cubes play in pre-school education can be amazing. Cubes represent one of the many ways in which children are introduced to numbers, letters, construction, gravity, and sharing. If you focus on certain games with these reliable tools, your students will be able to experience more with them during game time.

Below I present several fun games that you can use when teaching and I assure you that your students will love:

Band of cubes

Show your students that when cubes hit different things in the classroom they create different sounds. For example, if you hit one cube against another, it makes a different sound than if you hit it against the metal part of a desk. Ask the students to take a cube and tell them they are a very important part of the cube band. When you give them the entrance, they should start touching their cubes by hitting them in the place you told them to. Make sure they understand when you give them the signal to stop playing. The children will have a great time listening to the different sounds that everyone makes playing at the same time.

My students always allude that they are a music band and they are doing a musical, it is very funny.

Construction site

Since many children are familiar with building through toys and programs like "Bob the Builder," you can pamper them with a game from a construction site. Buy some construction yellow helmets for your students and get as many belts for toy tools as you can. Put some caution tape around the play area and tell the students that they are all working on a construction site. Students will enjoy this incredible game exercise. Remember to tell them that everyone is on the same construction team, in case someone persists in being the "boss".

Because it usually happens that everyone wants to be the boss and it is better to prevent them from the beginning so as not to enter into dilemmas and to enjoy the activity, it is really very fun for them.

Map of the neighborhood

Take your students for a walk in the neighborhood. Ask them to pay attention as much as possible to the different streets, shops and houses near the school. When you return to the living room, tell them you are going to make a map of the city with cubes. Some of them will remember certain streets and buildings immediately. Try to have all students have an opportunity to contribute on your cube map. Even if a student has made a building, tell them that the city will be better if the fictitious buildings are part of the area. Take a picture of the map and send it to the parents to show them what their children think of the city. You will be surprised by the imagination and retentiveness that children can have, and I have been astonished several times.

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