Parallel Construction with Blocks
originally posted on Ami's blog

I hesitated to teach this lesson (found in your FIAR manual) to my five year old, but then the word construction kept rolling around in my head, and I thought of a way to relay the concept...blocks!  You can use anything (legos, megablocks, wooden blocks, etc.). 




I taped the phrases from the story to the blocks making sure that the phrases that matched were on similar blocks. I demonstrated how the conversation between the mother and son was balanced as I built the blocks up. After I was done, both sides were the same and we had a parallel construction! Elijah has rebuilt the towers over and over again this week and read the words on the blocks. He may not fully understand, but we're building a foundation!