{"id":20699,"date":"2022-04-08T15:33:29","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T15:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/?p=20699"},"modified":"2022-04-08T15:33:29","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T15:33:29","slug":"spring-has-sprung-at-cart-mill%f0%9f%90%a5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/2022\/04\/08\/spring-has-sprung-at-cart-mill%f0%9f%90%a5\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring has Sprung at Cart Mill\ud83d\udc25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we have been discussing Spring.\u00a0 Some of the children were able to identify things we may see during Springtime.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;birds making nests\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;flowers on trees\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBaby animals being born, Lambs\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;spring flowers in gardens and parks\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We have some lovely spring flowers in our playroom, the children decided they would like to paint them. We talked about the different types of spring flowers for example Crocus, Hyacinth and Bluebell.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; I seen bluebells in the woods\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cdaffodils are my favourites because they are yellow and in my front garden \u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI like tulips the best because my Mum has them at home&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We pegged our daffodils and tulips to a line and put mirrors underneath them. We noticed that we could see the spring flowers reflection in the mirror.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/04\/D5B2D555-544E-4C30-8FC6-CE46BD5129B1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-20714\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/04\/D5B2D555-544E-4C30-8FC6-CE46BD5129B1-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can see the purple tulip, I want to paint it on the mirror&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;m painting the yellow daffodils in the mirror&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The children enjoyed mixing different tones and shades for their spring flowers. They noticed the differences between the petals on the flowers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe shapes are different&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We discussed the different parts of the flower.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cthat tulip has the longest stem\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the day the children didn\u2019t want to throw away their creative work, so decided to print their mirror painting onto a big sheet of paper to make a spring freeze next week.<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/04\/DD7C881F-C7FE-4040-BA94-D451862CBFA2.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-20715\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/04\/DD7C881F-C7FE-4040-BA94-D451862CBFA2-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well done, great team work everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we have been discussing Spring.\u00a0 Some of the children were able to identify things we may see during Springtime. &#8220;birds making nests\u201d &#8220;flowers on trees\u201d \u201cBaby animals being born, Lambs\u201d &#8220;spring flowers in gardens and parks\u201d We have some lovely spring flowers in our playroom, the children decided they would like to paint them. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/2022\/04\/08\/spring-has-sprung-at-cart-mill%f0%9f%90%a5\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Spring has Sprung at Cart Mill\ud83d\udc25<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[2508,5556],"tags":[9125,446165,445989,13089,447014],"class_list":["post-20699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-expressive-arts","category-outdoor-learning","tag-creativity","tag-curiosity","tag-expressive-arts","tag-imagination","tag-spring-art"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20699","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=20699"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20720,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20699\/revisions\/20720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}