Chloe, age three years and six months, is in her second year at nursery. We have noticed her transporting objects around the nursery in various ways over a long time.
Chloe is making trajectories (travelling) from one point in space to an end point. She carries things and sometimes places different objects in heaps at the end point. Her transporting appeared to be a dominant pattern of action, but when staff looked more closely they saw a whole cluster of schemas.
The cluster of child schemas are:
For staff, identifying clusters of schemas helps in the planning of present and future learning.
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