Case study: exploring structure

Troy is a three-year-old boy at Woodlands Park Nursery Centre who loves being active - riding bikes, kicking footballs and running in the garden. He is using his body and movement to explore large areas of space. Troy's main interest in his block play has been to stack blocks up high and sometimes to knock them down and see them scatter all over the floor. Troy's key worker, Judy, has recently noticed a new preoccupation in his building. After building a tower with the blocks, Troy put a toy person on the top. Later, he saw a large structure another...