{"id":34270,"date":"2026-07-24T14:20:53","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T14:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/crookfurnursery\/?p=34270"},"modified":"2026-07-24T14:20:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T14:20:53","slug":"risky-play-water-fun-chatterbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/crookfurnursery\/2026\/07\/24\/risky-play-water-fun-chatterbox\/","title":{"rendered":"Risky Play, Water Fun & Chatterbox!"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week in the block area the children have been exploring risky play through use of the big blocks. They demonstrated excellent turn taking skills and risk assessed their play to enable positive risks.The children also explored smaller scale builds using the dollhouse, train tracks,and magna tiles which we will extend into next week as we explore a variety of microcosims.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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In baking this week the children have been baking their own apple crumble. They have been exploring new techniques and skills throughout this recipe including measuring using spoons and scales, learning to rub together butter and flour to create breadcrumbs and chopping fruit to put in the crumble. The children also learned about safety whilst using utensils to chop the fruit.<\/span><\/p>\n

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This week we have also been enjoying lots of trips in the local community. We have been having lots of fun visiting Fairweather Park.<\/p>\n

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In the outdoor classroom we have been exploring water play. We used various jugs to transport the water and discussed capacity when discussing full\/empty.<\/p>\n

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The children explored digital creativity\u00a0 in the malleable area by using the ChatterBox app on the iPad to bring their playdough creations to life. They discovered that the app can make any picture appear to talk by adding an animated mouth. The children recorded their own voices, choosing different words and phrases for their creations to say. Watching their models come to life was met with lots of excitement, laughter and conversation as they experimented with different recordings. This fun activity encouraged creativity, communication and confidence while introducing the children to digital technology in an engaging and meaningful way.<\/span><\/p>\n

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This week in the block area the children have been exploring risky play through use of the big blocks. They demonstrated excellent turn taking skills and risk assessed their play to enable positive risks.The children also explored smaller scale builds using the dollhouse, train tracks,and magna tiles which we will extend into next week as … Continue reading Risky Play, Water Fun & Chatterbox!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36337,"featured_media":34305,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/crookfurnursery\/uploads\/sites\/12370\/2026\/07\/24134435\/IMG_0356.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/crookfurnursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/crookfurnursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/crookfurnursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/crookfurnursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36337"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/crookfurnursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34270"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/crookfurnursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34346,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/crookfurnursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34270\/revisions\/34346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/crookfurnursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/crookfurnursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/crookfurnursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/crookfurnursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}