Like many other kids, I was a big fan of LEGO when I was little.  Every Saturday, I would take out a huge box of colorful bricks and scatter them on the floor, sometimes making my dream castle, sometimes building a bridge…

I have had a chance recently to meet Chris, the Chief Instructor at Colours Smart Kids Academy who apparently has more than 10 years’ experience in children education.  According to Chris, bricks are only ‘nice toys’ for kids to have.  As an experienced teacher, he has seen hundreds of cases of how kids improve in their ability to think and express themselves confidently – and as a result exceling in P1 interviews and getting into their dream schools – after taking his LEGO Brainstorm Class.

Chris noted the increasing peer competition that Hong Kong kids are facing, and he believed that just feeding them with book knowledge is no longer sufficient to prepare kids for school interviews.  In his experience, many reputable primary schools nowadays would test children’s ability to think clearly and deeply through questions relating to kids’ daily life.  Sometimes LEGO bricks are used as an examination tool during interviews.   That’s why Chris’ unique LEGO Brainstorm Class can be such as great help to kids who are preparing for their school entrance exams.

As a matter of fact, according to Chris, he has seen many of his students who had taken his “LEGO Brainstorm Class” entering their dream primary school after doing exceptionally well in interviews.  The most unique thing about LEGO Brainstorm Class is that kids are taught to express, with the use of using LEGO bricks, objects that would otherwise be difficult to express in words.  Some examples are the Great Wall, Pisa Tower and the Pyramid. 

To help kids get an even deeper understanding of these complicated objects, the class teachers would teach them also the mathematical and science vocabulary – such as the concept of “length” when talking about the Great Wall; mathematic “angles” when talking about Pisa Tower, and “3D shapes” when talking about the Pyramid.  Imagine your kid being questioned on where they want to travel and he is not only able to say “the Pyramid in Egypt” but also build it in front of the examiners with LEGO bricks and subsequently tell them that it’s a tetragonal pyramids… if you are an examiner, wouldn’t you not be impressed?

But this is not to say that the course should be taken just for the sake of preparing for school interviews.  If you agree with me that it is the dream of every child to be able to learn without the stress of homework and rigid class activities, but with fun LEGO games that they enjoy… perhaps Chris’ LEGO Brainstorm Class is something you are looking for.

- Carmen -