{"id":18813,"date":"2021-09-22T16:38:01","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T16:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/?p=18813"},"modified":"2021-09-22T19:22:57","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T19:22:57","slug":"this-weeks-toddler-interests-vehicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/2021\/09\/22\/this-weeks-toddler-interests-vehicles\/","title":{"rendered":"Cars and ramps"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Today the children have \u00a0been super busy making ramps for their cars using the blocks. They decided to make their own ramps. The toddlers self selected their own paint colours and then dipped their cars into the paint and set them off down the ramp. The children noticed that some of the cars went further than others, some went down fast, some slow and that the tyres all made different marks. \u00a0They added some textured balls to see what different marks they left. \u201c That’s left a bumpy mark\u201d \u00a0They learned some new concepts including stop, go, up, down, fast, slow developing their language skills and learning about cause and effect.<\/p>\n

When asked what they would like to do next with the cars L said \u201c make a garage \u201c So they set about creating one. H said “we should use these boxes”. L said \u201c I\u2019m painting it green, it needs to have a tunnel and space for the fire engine”. The children demonstrated great team work when planning together to create their garage. They were proud of their finished result and had great fun playing together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today the children have \u00a0been super busy making ramps for their cars using the blocks. They decided to make their own ramps. The toddlers self selected their own paint colours and then dipped their cars into the paint and set them off down the ramp. The children noticed that some of the cars went further … Continue reading Cars and ramps<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36298,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2508],"tags":[446797,446334,446034,8379,446121],"class_list":["post-18813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-expressive-arts","tag-markmaking","tag-problemsolving","tag-creative","tag-teamwork","tag-toddlers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36298"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18813"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18826,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18813\/revisions\/18826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}