{"id":179,"date":"2011-01-09T17:10:53","date_gmt":"2011-01-09T16:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/HecklegirthNursery\/?p=179"},"modified":"2014-04-12T10:43:01","modified_gmt":"2014-04-12T09:43:01","slug":"nursery-welcomes-some-special-visitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/HecklegirthNursery\/2011\/01\/09\/nursery-welcomes-some-special-visitors\/","title":{"rendered":"Nursery Welcomes Some Special Visitors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">On our return to Nursery this week, we all enjoyed a very exciting, \u201chands-on\u201d visit by Zoolab.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">A cockroach called Larry, Maurice the millipede and best friends, Oscar and Daisy the snails were among our visitors. We learned some amazing facts about the <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">lifestyles of these animals and the children were particularly impressed by the fact that snails have more teeth than sharks and Larry the cockroach will actually eat smelly socks.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Many of the children also enjoyed the opportunity to stroke and hold these animals, which was a memorable experience. We have captured some of their impressions in photos and comments below. Click on the photos to get a closer view. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Zak:<\/span> <span style=\"color: #0000ff\">\u201cThe spider was good \u2018cause it nearly chased that bug\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Poppy<\/span>: <span style=\"color: #0000ff\">\u201cOscar\u2019s kiss feels cold\u201d. (snail)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Jannat:<\/span> <span style=\"color: #0000ff\">\u201cHe\u2019s tickly\u201d. (cockroach)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Remo<\/span>: <span style=\"color: #0000ff\">\u201c<\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Oh<\/span>! Oh! it feels really really slimy\u201d.(snail)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Aidan<\/span>: <span style=\"color: #0000ff\">\u201cI liked the snake \u2018cause it\u2019s slinky\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Dylan<\/span>: <span style=\"color: #0000ff\">\u201cIt\u2019s a bit scribbly\u201d. (cockroach on his hand)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Sarah<\/span>: <span style=\"color: #0000ff\">\u201cWhat number\u2019s his legs? It looks like a lot.\u201d (the millipede)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Phoebe<\/span>: <span style=\"color: #0000ff\">\u201cI loved the snake. It felt soft\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/HecklegirthNursery\/files\/2011\/01\/snake.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/HecklegirthNursery\/files\/2011\/01\/cockroach.jpg\"><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/HecklegirthNursery\/files\/2011\/01\/cockroach-3.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/HecklegirthNursery\/files\/2011\/01\/millipede.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/HecklegirthNursery\/files\/2011\/01\/snail.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On our return to Nursery this week, we all enjoyed a very exciting, \u201chands-on\u201d visit by Zoolab. A cockroach called Larry, Maurice the millipede and best friends, Oscar and Daisy the snails were among our visitors. We learned some amazing facts about the lifestyles of these animals and the children were particularly impressed by the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/HecklegirthNursery\/2011\/01\/09\/nursery-welcomes-some-special-visitors\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Nursery Welcomes Some Special Visitors&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":278,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[235,189,268,252,191],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2010-2011","tag-confident-individuals","tag-pictures","tag-quotes","tag-responsible-citizens","tag-visitors"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/HecklegirthNursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/HecklegirthNursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/HecklegirthNursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/HecklegirthNursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/278"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/HecklegirthNursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/HecklegirthNursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6159,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/HecklegirthNursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions\/6159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/HecklegirthNursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/HecklegirthNursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/HecklegirthNursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}