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Ben and Lane, two four-year-old boys, work along side each other building towers with Unifix cubes. As the clip beings, the children share their goal, to build towers that are “big” and “high.” Here’s what they say: 

Beckett has been at school for 2.5 months. Ashley has been his teacher for 2 weeks. Ashley engages Beckett in a game of building blocks and letting Beckett make them fall over. Ashley participates in the game by making sounds of surprise and laughter at each falling over. Ashley is quick to stack the blocks as Beckett moves to knock them over. Around 00:59 Beckett gazes at Ashley, awaiting her laugh. When it comes he laughs as well.

Four children, ages one to one-and-a-half years old, explore a large box that was brought into the community space as part of a school wide investigation.

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Three girls, ages four and five years old, are washing the body of a large model of a racecar. The wheels have not yet been placed under the body. The pretense comes more from the fact that the car is not really dirty. But the washing is real, with wet sponges, brushes, and towels used to dry after wiping the body with a wet sponge. The children show us that washing requires water, pressure, covering the whole surface, drying with a towel, and even getting to enclosed spaces with a tool.