Blocks and animals just naturally go together…. but as the children become more skilled in collaborating with a wider group, there is more interest in building bigger and ambitious structures….
This week we saw lots of cooperative play around the farm animals and the blocks.
The girls took up different roles – Brylie and Poppy were busy setting up the farm on a temporarily empty block shelf, Reba and Emma were creating block paddocks, and Madison P started to build a ramp down from the farm to the floor and then a road way around the room and back again.
It’s the sort of play that we might see but perhaps take for granted and not really notice but it is high level learning in early childhood – open-ended, extended, multi-dimensional play that shares space, props, ideas and roles and is deeply satisfying for all involved.