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One Monday morning, Sandra walked into her day care classroom with a heavy box filled with rocks. She announced with pleasure to her four- and five-year-old classmates that she had begun a rock collection. Other children quickly came over and began making comments about the colors and sizes of the rocks and about rocks they had found themselves.
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Diane E. Levin is Associate Professor of Education at Wheelock College in Boston, MA.
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Levin, D.E. Weaving curriculum webs: Planning, guiding, and recording curriculum activities in the day care classroom. Early Childhood Educ J 13, 16–19 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01622922
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