{"id":22772,"date":"2022-11-17T15:23:22","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T15:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/?p=22772"},"modified":"2022-11-17T15:24:51","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T15:24:51","slug":"legends-in-the-studio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/2022\/11\/17\/legends-in-the-studio\/","title":{"rendered":"Legends in the Studio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As it is Scotland book week we have continued to develop the childrens interest in the studio. We have been doing some research about the Loch Ness monster. We have had a look at some Scottish books and watched a short film.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The children discovered that the monster lives in Loch Ness and the water is very deep and dark as the water is full of peat from the surrounding hills. We then decided to recreate our our own Loch Ness monsters using the clay.<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/11\/7EB3C3FF-2AE1-4093-ABE3-79FB891C3A1F.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-22774\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/11\/7EB3C3FF-2AE1-4093-ABE3-79FB891C3A1F-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our clay is a great way to strengthen the muscles in our fingers and hands whilst developing our fine motor skills and imagination. The children discussed how they would like their own monsters to look, \u201cmine has flippers\u201d \u00a0 \u201cmine is going to be so big\u201d some of the children enjoyed using the clay tools to make the eyes and patterns on the skin.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/11\/F8C9EF0E-0459-4EA8-B8DC-5C805D279B7C.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-22775\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/11\/F8C9EF0E-0459-4EA8-B8DC-5C805D279B7C-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/11\/26A19EE5-C362-4400-BB03-6FE3D84D8619.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-22776\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/11\/26A19EE5-C362-4400-BB03-6FE3D84D8619-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We have loved bringing our legends to life and look forward to our next book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As it is Scotland book week we have continued to develop the childrens interest in the studio. We have been doing some research about the Loch Ness monster. We have had a look at some Scottish books and watched a short film. &nbsp; The children discovered that the monster lives in Loch Ness and the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/2022\/11\/17\/legends-in-the-studio\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Legends in the Studio<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446891,2508,189],"tags":[447118],"class_list":["post-22772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-technology","category-expressive-arts","category-literacy","tag-scottish-legends"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22772","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\/34238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22772"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22781,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22772\/revisions\/22781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}