{"id":29239,"date":"2025-10-01T15:50:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T15:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/?p=29239"},"modified":"2025-10-01T15:50:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T15:50:22","slug":"fun-in-the-pond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/2025\/10\/01\/fun-in-the-pond\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun in the pond"},"content":{"rendered":"

Come and see some of the things we got up to today.<\/p>\n

The children have been expressing themselves with the paint, using their large motor skills to create their ideas on the shiny tinfoil and seeing how the colours mix together to create new ones .<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n\u201cMy hands are orange\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

We have been using our nursery rhymes to recognise colours, make choices and take turns. The children each chose a coloured disc which has a nursery rhyme on the back (eg. Red disc = The wheels on the bus) to sing together.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cMy favourite is Twinkle Twinkle\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

The\u00a0 <\/span>children mixed together all the ingredients to make play dough, learning to follow simple instructions and develop their gross motor skills as they stir. They added blue paint to add colour and explored the textures and feelings using their senses.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cIt feels sticky\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

Finally we played parachute games, using our large muscles to move the parachute up and down working together as team to make it move. We sang some songs and sat under the parachute before doing sleeping bunnies.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Come and see some of the things we got up to today. The children have been expressing themselves with the paint, using their large motor skills to create their ideas on the shiny tinfoil and seeing how the colours mix together to create new ones . \u201cMy hands are orange\u201d We have been using our … Continue reading Fun in the pond<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31671,"featured_media":29245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447284,447273,2508,447347,189,447219,2486],"tags":[446333,446699,446570,446334,447091,9125,446165],"class_list":["post-29239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creative-movement","category-creativity","category-expressive-arts","category-imaginative-thinking","category-literacy","category-music","category-social-studies","tag-creativityskills","tag-finemotorskills","tag-grossmotorskills","tag-problemsolving","tag-socialskills","tag-creativity","tag-curiosity"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2025\/10\/01154034\/3E1216CB-F532-47A1-ADEC-2F125B11E226-rotated.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29239","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=29239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29246,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29239\/revisions\/29246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}