{"id":20153,"date":"2022-02-15T17:30:20","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T17:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/?p=20153"},"modified":"2022-02-15T17:30:20","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T17:30:20","slug":"nature-walk-between-showers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/2022\/02\/15\/nature-walk-between-showers\/","title":{"rendered":"Nature walk between showers!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we had a very interesting nature walk! Our mission was to collect leaves and acorns of all different shapes and sizes.<br \/>\nHowever, \u00a0the first thing we spotted on our walk was was two little ducks! We thought this was very exciting as they were running around so close to our nursery!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/02\/FBFBE805-C5F6-41BA-9228-9BDEDC598E61.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-20154\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/02\/FBFBE805-C5F6-41BA-9228-9BDEDC598E61-259x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The children noticed the ducks were different colours and spotted a duck pond for them! (A very large puddle!!)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are shouting quack, quack!\u201d \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cThey are so cute!\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cI love the ducks!\u201d \u00a0 \u00a0 \u201cThey came to our nursery!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We continued on our walk and the children managed to find lots of leaves and pine cones. \u00a0They found both green leaves and brown leaves. They climbed small hills to reach the leaves they wanted.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/02\/0298EEF0-5727-4957-8563-8D843842FC3B.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-20155\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/02\/0298EEF0-5727-4957-8563-8D843842FC3B-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/02\/6913471C-E1BD-47BC-80C8-5D08BE3706DC.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-20156\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/02\/6913471C-E1BD-47BC-80C8-5D08BE3706DC-298x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When we were walking back to nursery \u00a0the children spotted a big muddy puddle which, of course, they just had to jump in!! They had so much fun seeing how high they could jump and how big a splash they could make!<\/p>\n<p>\u201dI made a great big splash!\u201d \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cThe water feels so cold on me!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/02\/D8C5041A-1A12-41A3-8C2F-F5BC02E68A88.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-20157\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/02\/D8C5041A-1A12-41A3-8C2F-F5BC02E68A88-295x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"295\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once we got back to nursery we did some printing with our leaves using different coloured paint. The children noticed that the different leaves made different patterns on the paper! We also dipped our pine cones in paint and rolled them across the paper to create some nice patterns.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/02\/0F5C9E45-C248-4526-AC5F-34999D4ACC5D.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-20158\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/02\/0F5C9E45-C248-4526-AC5F-34999D4ACC5D-300x296.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"296\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Whilst making some amazing pictures with the materials we gathered, the children were developing their gross motor skills and had great conversations about their outing! What a fun morning we had!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we had a very interesting nature walk! Our mission was to collect leaves and acorns of all different shapes and sizes. However, \u00a0the first thing we spotted on our walk was was two little ducks! We thought this was very exciting as they were running around so close to our nursery! The children noticed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/2022\/02\/15\/nature-walk-between-showers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nature walk between showers!!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2508,189,5556],"tags":[446570,446717,445970],"class_list":["post-20153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-expressive-arts","category-literacy","category-outdoor-learning","tag-grossmotorskills","tag-naturalresources","tag-local-environment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20153","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\/34359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20153"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20163,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20153\/revisions\/20163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}