{"id":20934,"date":"2022-05-06T15:40:30","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T15:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/?p=20934"},"modified":"2022-05-06T15:40:30","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T15:40:30","slug":"the-floor-is-lava","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/2022\/05\/06\/the-floor-is-lava\/","title":{"rendered":"The floor is lava"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today the children played \u00a0\u201cThe floor is lava\u201d but\u00a0with a twist&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>They worked together to collect different materials including:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/05\/C29E631D-47DA-4194-BBDF-3881D4189136.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-20935\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/05\/C29E631D-47DA-4194-BBDF-3881D4189136-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\">Paper\/card<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\">lollipop sticks<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\">twigs<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\">Small figures<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\">building blocks<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\">Cars<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\">Bowls<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">They then used the materials to design and build a stable structure together that was suitable to save the little figures and cars from the lava without it falling over.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/05\/72E97340-7701-4040-A9F9-595F470B14C5-rotated.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-20936\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/05\/72E97340-7701-4040-A9F9-595F470B14C5-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt needs to be up high, what can we use?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201dwe can use the blocks to get it high\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/05\/EEA57B19-1B3D-4F04-AF85-CC7569390DB5.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-20937\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/05\/EEA57B19-1B3D-4F04-AF85-CC7569390DB5-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe children came up with a variety of ways to save the cars and people from the lava while developing\u00a0their listening and teamwork skills.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/05\/A9C74188-A9FC-4946-A6A6-661B936425FB-rotated.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-20938\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/05\/A9C74188-A9FC-4946-A6A6-661B936425FB-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/05\/A337A68C-5420-435C-9502-FE8BB3ECCA84-rotated.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-20939\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/05\/A337A68C-5420-435C-9502-FE8BB3ECCA84-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They used their problem solving skills to organise the different shaped blocks by size so that the figure didn\u2019t fall over.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dThe big ones need to go to the bottom because they will fall if they are at the top, they won\u2019t balance\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe bowl can go under in case he falls\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The children had so much fun making a safe structure for the cars and people using materials around the nursery. Why don\u2019t you try creating your own at home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today the children played \u00a0\u201cThe floor is lava\u201d but\u00a0with a twist&#8230; They worked together to collect different materials including: Paper\/card lollipop sticks twigs Small figures building blocks Cars Bowls They then used the materials to design and build a stable structure together that was suitable to save the little figures and cars from the lava &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/2022\/05\/06\/the-floor-is-lava\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The floor is lava<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31671,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,2486,446938],"tags":[446801,446333,446633,446568,447034,446016,446600,135,446625,136],"class_list":["post-20934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","category-social-studies","category-technologies","tag-building-challange-problem-solving-team-work","tag-creativityskills","tag-creative-thinking","tag-discovery-room","tag-engineering","tag-imaginative-play","tag-maths","tag-science","tag-stem","tag-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20934","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\/31671"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20934"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20944,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20934\/revisions\/20944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}