{"id":6640,"date":"2022-11-01T17:06:47","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T17:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Glenwood\/?p=6640"},"modified":"2023-03-06T14:05:36","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T14:05:36","slug":"nature-in-our-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Glenwood\/2022\/11\/01\/nature-in-our-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Nature In Our Play"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Mrs Silvester<\/em><\/p>\n

Collecting Natural Resources.<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The children at Glenwood have been visiting Eastwood Park to explore our environment and notice signs of Autumn. We collected sticks, conkers, leaves and fir cones which we used in our play.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Filling, Sorting and Counting.<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Our autumn nature collection was placed in a tuff tray and masking tape was used to section it off.\u00a0 Bowls and tongs were provided to explore nature\u2019s treasure, developing the children’s hand eye coordination and their pincer grip . The children enjoyed counting the contents to see who had the most.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Using Tools\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The children used the workbench and hand held drill to make a hole in the conker then threaded them together to make a conker number line. Risky play with real tools develops children\u2019s skills including communication, coordination and fine and gross motor development.<\/span><\/p>\n

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by Mrs Silvester Collecting Natural Resources. The children at Glenwood have been visiting Eastwood Park to explore our environment and notice signs of Autumn. We collected sticks, conkers, leaves and fir cones which we used in our play. Filling, Sorting and Counting. Our autumn nature collection was placed in a tuff tray and masking tape … Continue reading Nature In Our Play<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37827,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[277],"tags":[121643,383355,5556,12282],"class_list":["post-6640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-num-mat","tag-fine-motor-skills","tag-loose-parts","tag-outdoor-learning","tag-using-tools"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Glenwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Glenwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Glenwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Glenwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37827"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Glenwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6640"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Glenwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6691,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Glenwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6640\/revisions\/6691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Glenwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Glenwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Glenwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}