{"id":23874,"date":"2023-03-20T08:30:54","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T08:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/?p=23874"},"modified":"2023-03-20T08:30:54","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T08:30:54","slug":"slimy-squishy-beans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/2023\/03\/20\/slimy-squishy-beans\/","title":{"rendered":"Slimy, Squishy Beans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">Today in our malleable area the children enjoyed some sensory play with beans supporting brain development, and learning about the world around them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2023\/03\/E4337D33-CF0A-4E28-B137-6CA0795E73B4.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-23877\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2023\/03\/E4337D33-CF0A-4E28-B137-6CA0795E73B4-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">Through this play the children are developing fine motor skills through tactile play, developing language, improving co-ordination, as well as fine\/gross motor skills. Improving social skills such as communication and co-operation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI eat beans at home\u201c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2023\/03\/7012730F-1C20-4396-9650-71FADDD7A84E.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-23876\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2023\/03\/7012730F-1C20-4396-9650-71FADDD7A84E-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cThey\u2019re sticky\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">We used all sorts of utensils to scoop, fill, pour, mash and weigh.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">We used big spoons, small spoons, slotted spoons and watched the sauce \u201cdrip drip\u201dthrough.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2023\/03\/E990BDE5-7990-4035-904B-618562E2E845.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-23875\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2023\/03\/E990BDE5-7990-4035-904B-618562E2E845-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m mushing the beans\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cTap tap tap\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cScoop, scoop, scoop\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cWow it\u2019s slimy\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cLook it\u2019s slipping\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cLook squishing up\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>We also had a go at balancing the scales with various degrees of success.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2023\/03\/44FCCD47-FF65-4E0F-A368-225B2F2FA5A8.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-23878\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2023\/03\/44FCCD47-FF65-4E0F-A368-225B2F2FA5A8-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today in our malleable area the children enjoyed some sensory play with beans supporting brain development, and learning about the world around them. Through this play the children are developing fine motor skills through tactile play, developing language, improving co-ordination, as well as fine\/gross motor skills. Improving social skills such as communication and co-operation. \u201cI &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/2023\/03\/20\/slimy-squishy-beans\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Slimy, Squishy Beans<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28287,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23874","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\/28287"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23879,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23874\/revisions\/23879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}