Archive for Tuesday, March 13, 2012

PHOTOS: Kids play with blocks at Basehor-Linwood Parents as Teachers program

Oliver Douthit, 3, of Basehor works on a tower made of flat wooden blocks with help from his mother, Tanya, during a Basehor-Linwood Parents as Teachers BLOCKFest event Monday night at Basehor Elementary School.

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Oliver Douthit, 3, of Basehor works on a tower made of flat wooden blocks with help from his mother, Tanya, during a Basehor-Linwood Parents as Teachers BLOCKFest event Monday night at Basehor Elementary School.

March 13, 2012

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Katherine Whiteaker, 5, of Basehor stacks a cardboard brick atop the wall she was constructing. After it was complete, she and her brother Joshua, 3, knocked it down.

Basehor-Linwood Parents as Teachers BLOCKFest

Children from 8 months to 8 years old and their parents participated in a BLOCKFest program provided by Basehor-Linwood Parents as Teachers on Monday, March 12, at Basehor Elementary School. Kids rotated through stations containing different kinds of blocks to play with. The program is intended to help children develop math and science skills.

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Children from 8 months to 8 years old built — and, more often than not, knocked down — walls, towers and other structures with a variety of different blocks during a Basehor-Linwood Parents as Teachers BLOCKFest session Monday night at Basehor Elementary School.

Parents as Teachers offered three free BLOCKFest programs Monday night and Tuesday morning, intended to help children build math and science skills through block play.

A photo gallery from the 7:15-8:15 p.m. Monday session is available at left.

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