{"id":23514,"date":"2023-02-14T14:32:24","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T14:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/?p=23514"},"modified":"2023-02-14T14:32:24","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T14:32:24","slug":"framing-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/2023\/02\/14\/framing-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"Framing Winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">As our weather is crisp and cold we have been looking and discovering more about winter in the world around us and how we keep ourself warm during this chilly time. We asked the children what they knew about winter weather and got some lovely responses;<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cIt\u2019s Cold\u201d \u201c<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cI wear snow boots\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cMy fingers go red\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cFrost makes beautiful patterns\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\"><br \/>\nWe decided together that we would enjoy exploring our local environment to see what effect the colder weather had on our world around us.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">First we dressed appropriately for our walk, we put our warm jackets, hats, boots and some of us had cosy gloves to keep us extra warm .<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2023\/02\/D747472F-5A96-4CBD-8607-D68E21B28D7C-rotated.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-23515\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2023\/02\/D747472F-5A96-4CBD-8607-D68E21B28D7C-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>We looked at how the\u00a0trees looked a bit sad and cold\u00a0as their beautiful big leaves have left them bare, some of the leaves were lying on the ground.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2023\/02\/B5257EAF-24DD-4A20-9D5F-D90EE22713D4.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-23517\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2023\/02\/B5257EAF-24DD-4A20-9D5F-D90EE22713D4-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nDuring our walk we collected some of the leaves, some sticks, twigs and stones to take back to Cart Mill<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2023\/02\/7B6BEB2E-3654-4034-B5A3-EE6EFAEDBDD8.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-23516\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2023\/02\/7B6BEB2E-3654-4034-B5A3-EE6EFAEDBDD8-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cLeaves are wet\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201c I have found the biggest stick\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>On our travels we also spotted a deer and its family through the bare trees. We walked a little further and saw lots of sheep.<br \/>\n\u201cAre there any baby ones?\u201d<br \/>\nWe discussed that baby lambs can be seen in the spring and that\u2019s the next season after winter, so not long to wait now.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2023\/02\/254028F3-0CFA-4F13-9837-8A8390DA48A4.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-23518\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2023\/02\/254028F3-0CFA-4F13-9837-8A8390DA48A4-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">When we arrived back at the nursery we decided to create our own winter pictures using the resources we found. The children were very creative designing their own trees and snowflakes. A lovely way for us to show our fun winter walk time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2023\/02\/5F70E8F9-18C4-4B78-BFBC-E92D8B360FE3.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-23519\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2023\/02\/5F70E8F9-18C4-4B78-BFBC-E92D8B360FE3-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As our weather is crisp and cold we have been looking and discovering more about winter in the world around us and how we keep ourself warm during this chilly time. We asked the children what they knew about winter weather and got some lovely responses; \u201cIt\u2019s Cold\u201d \u201c \u201cI wear snow boots\u201d \u201cMy fingers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/2023\/02\/14\/framing-winter\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Framing Winter<\/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":[2508,187,5556,383206],"tags":[446796,446007,121643,187,447125],"class_list":["post-23514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-expressive-arts","category-health-and-wellbeing","category-outdoor-learning","category-trips-and-outings","tag-outdoorlearning","tag-creativity-skills","tag-fine-motor-skills","tag-health-and-wellbeing","tag-winter-crafts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23514","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=23514"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23524,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23514\/revisions\/23524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}