{"id":52,"date":"2020-12-02T11:22:25","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T11:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/as\/fettercairnps\/?p=52"},"modified":"2020-12-02T11:22:25","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T11:22:25","slug":"nursery-numeracy-and-fine-motor-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/as\/fettercairnps\/2020\/12\/02\/nursery-numeracy-and-fine-motor-skills\/","title":{"rendered":"Nursery &#8211; Numeracy and fine motor skills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-54 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/as\/public\/fettercairnps\/uploads\/sites\/3446\/2020\/12\/02112128\/sandwich.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"367\" height=\"268\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To support our fine motor skills each child made their own Jam Sandwich for snack. They had to follow instructions and then use picture cards to re-tell how they made the sandwich in a logical sequence. In Numeracy we have been focusing on measuring the height, length and size of things around Nursery. Staff have been supporting children\u2019s acquisition of measurement language. The children compared various objects and ordered sticks from shortest to longest or shortest to tallest. We even had a Wellie Throwing Competition in the Nursery Garden. Children were excited to measure how far they had thrown their Wellie.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-55 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/as\/public\/fettercairnps\/uploads\/sites\/3446\/2020\/12\/02112152\/sticks.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"457\" height=\"194\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Ordering Sticks from shortest to longest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To support our fine motor skills each child made their own Jam Sandwich for snack. They had to follow instructions and then use picture cards to re-tell how they made the sandwich in a logical sequence. In Numeracy we have been focusing on measuring the height, length and size of things around Nursery. Staff have &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1nursery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/as\/fettercairnps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/as\/fettercairnps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/as\/fettercairnps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/as\/fettercairnps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/as\/fettercairnps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/as\/fettercairnps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/as\/fettercairnps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/56"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/as\/fettercairnps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/as\/fettercairnps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/as\/fettercairnps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}