{"id":18893,"date":"2021-10-01T15:42:42","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T15:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/?p=18893"},"modified":"2021-10-01T15:42:42","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T15:42:42","slug":"lets-count-with-bookbug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/2021\/10\/01\/lets-count-with-bookbug\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s count with Bookbug!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today Bookbug came to visit! Bookbug knew we have been taking part in Maths Week Scotland here at Cart Mill and wanted to introduce us to number songs and rhymes.<br \/>\nBookBug brought his box filled with wonderful visual aids, puppets and books to help us have fun with our numeracy and maths skills through our songs and rhymes.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2021\/10\/721B6B77-A95A-4649-A89C-758288FE8314-rotated.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-18894\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2021\/10\/721B6B77-A95A-4649-A89C-758288FE8314-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We started off by singing our welcome song to warm up all our voices.<br \/>\nWe sang our number songs next such as 1,2,3,4,5 and 5 little peas. These songs teach us to count forwards in sequence.<br \/>\nWe then sang songs such as 5 little ducks and 5 fat sausages to help us practice counting backwards in sequence. Ours songs also introduced us to early mathematical concepts such as adding and subtracting.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2021\/10\/B851DCD2-C58A-4270-9C55-B4DD47C57863-rotated.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-18895\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2021\/10\/B851DCD2-C58A-4270-9C55-B4DD47C57863-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then the stretchy Lycra came out and the puppets were bouncing and jumping up and down! We were using our listening skills, hand-eye co-ordination as well as numeracy and rhyming skills.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2021\/10\/0F272EC3-A73A-4161-96E2-E79511BCA16D-rotated.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-18896\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2021\/10\/0F272EC3-A73A-4161-96E2-E79511BCA16D-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWe all enjoyed singing number songs with Bookbug.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2021\/10\/7E712FAF-9AE6-4901-BFFD-AB7514B218AE-rotated.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-18897\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2021\/10\/7E712FAF-9AE6-4901-BFFD-AB7514B218AE-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nNumbers are all around us. Songs and rhymes are a fantastic way for us to learn and develop our numeracy and mathematical skills. What number songs can you sing at home?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today Bookbug came to visit! Bookbug knew we have been taking part in Maths Week Scotland here at Cart Mill and wanted to introduce us to number songs and rhymes. BookBug brought his box filled with wonderful visual aids, puppets and books to help us have fun with our numeracy and maths skills through our &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/2021\/10\/01\/lets-count-with-bookbug\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Let\u2019s count with Bookbug!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36351,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2508,185],"tags":[13901,446876,446874,185,446877,446878],"class_list":["post-18893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-expressive-arts","category-numeracy","tag-bookbug","tag-early-mathematical-skills","tag-maths-week-scotland","tag-numeracy","tag-rhyming-songs","tag-sequencing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18893","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\/36351"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18893"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18903,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18893\/revisions\/18903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}