Wesley arrives at the blocks. He sets out making a tall structure. It’s a store he says, with two doors where the two large block openings are. He continues building, putting a roof on. One of the blocks on the roof sticks out – this is a shooter. When Mark leans a block against the structure, Wesley says it’s a ladder. He balances more blocks in a line on top of it until they extend far up the side of the structure, which he later called a tower. He tells the story of the ladder: Then you can climb up to the roof, then you have to jump up to the roof. (later he adds…) Babies can’t go on the roof. But mothers can hold them, and one can push up the baby and one (the baby) can push up the mom. He adds blocks on the floor connected to and leading away from the ladder, explaining: This is a sidewalk.
Meanwhile, Jamie has built a line of “cones” that extend around Wesley’s tower, and Wesley steps over them carefully as he works on the ladder. Then Jamie makes a home for his bird and covers it as he often does; he decides to do variations on this with other blocks.
Johann joins Jamie and puts blocks inside a larger block, as we’ve seen Jack and Elliot do, when they make firetrucks and ambulances and “drive” them around the classroom.
Jamie continues adding to his structure until it is time to clean up. He explains that it is a garbage truck.
