{"id":20140,"date":"2022-02-14T15:03:24","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T15:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/?p=20140"},"modified":"2022-02-14T15:03:24","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T15:03:24","slug":"busy-builders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/2022\/02\/14\/busy-builders\/","title":{"rendered":"Busy Builders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All go this morning in the construction corner but safety first! We ensured we had our high viz jackets and goggles on and most importantly our checklist. We had a discussion on why we wear protective clothing and complete checklists to ensure our safety for ourselves and others around us&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/02\/F513BD45-E124-4914-AF10-4AF8D4FD7306-rotated.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-20141\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/02\/F513BD45-E124-4914-AF10-4AF8D4FD7306-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/02\/01B93F4F-C636-49E7-94B9-27252C9FAB4D-rotated.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-20142\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/02\/01B93F4F-C636-49E7-94B9-27252C9FAB4D-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The children took time to design what they would\u00a0like to build using clipboards, paper, rulers and pens. Then we got to work, we looked around at different blocks shapes and sizes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/02\/D1CEF608-6BFD-4205-A010-E1B800B7C68C-rotated.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-20143\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/02\/D1CEF608-6BFD-4205-A010-E1B800B7C68C-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/02\/6B7105C8-585A-49B9-B4A1-39D655448D4A-rotated.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-20144\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/02\/6B7105C8-585A-49B9-B4A1-39D655448D4A-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The children built their own creations\u00a0from the variety of resources on offer to them and then worked together as a group expanding their ideas\u00a0to create a big castle using their imagination. During this time the children were using mathematical language such as taller, smaller, long and short, \u00a0The children demonstrated good communication skills when sharing ideas. They also shared equipment and worked together, passing blocks to each other.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/02\/AFB1EA1F-7531-4779-A322-C0C3CBB5116F-rotated.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-20145\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/02\/AFB1EA1F-7531-4779-A322-C0C3CBB5116F-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/02\/ED58C0C3-01C3-41BA-BCB8-ED71AC01DB8C-rotated.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-20147\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/02\/ED58C0C3-01C3-41BA-BCB8-ED71AC01DB8C-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All go this morning in the construction corner but safety first! We ensured we had our high viz jackets and goggles on and most importantly our checklist. We had a discussion on why we wear protective clothing and complete checklists to ensure our safety for ourselves and others around us&#8230; The children took time to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/2022\/02\/14\/busy-builders\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Busy Builders<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38008,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187,189,185,2486],"tags":[7350,446803,446779,446876,4725,446256],"class_list":["post-20140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-and-wellbeing","category-literacy","category-numeracy","category-social-studies","tag-building","tag-challenge","tag-communication-skills","tag-early-mathematical-skills","tag-problem-solving","tag-team-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20140","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\/38008"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20140"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20152,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20140\/revisions\/20152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}