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Up, Up, Up... Can Documentation Be Building Blocks for New Learning?

School: Brookline Early Education Program

3. Grace Begins

Grace has built her staircase and is building the house in front of the first step.

I signal: "Grace, let's look where your stairs lead. Let's pretend to go up them. Up, up, up, up... uh, oh!"

Grace notices: "The house needs to go at the other end. [She moves her house to the other end, but it is shorter than the top stair.] The stairs are too high. I don't know what to do."


Caleb suggests: "You can make the house taller." [He gets some blocks and adds them so the floor of the house is level with the top stair.]

Grace notices: "You made the house higher. Now it does work."