Robert came to Pen Green at the age of two years five months and spent two years in the nursery. Throughout his first year he spent his time exploring and experimenting with water.
From our early observations we noticed that a containment schema was very dominant in these explorations. With increasing knowledge of Robert's schemas and those of other children, we realised that 'containment'
develops into 'envelopment', and 'covering over' is an important aspect of this general behaviour. Containment refers to putting materials or oneself inside a container, and envelopment to enveloping, covering over, or surrounding oneself, or objects.
Robert's envelopment schema manifests itself in nursery when he:
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