{"id":637,"date":"2021-07-29T10:15:06","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T10:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/es\/stycc\/?p=637"},"modified":"2021-07-29T10:15:06","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T10:15:06","slug":"virtual-nature-school-blog3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/es\/stycc\/2021\/07\/29\/virtual-nature-school-blog3\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtual Nature School Blog3"},"content":{"rendered":"

Looking In<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cFor this week\u2019s provocations, we started off the week by watching the Virtual Nature School videos to introduce the idea of \u201cLooking In\u201d. There was lots of discussion around bird\u2019s nests as you can see on the mind-mapping diagram.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cOne child saw this den in the nursery and exclaimed, \u2018It\u2019s a nest!\u2019, making the connection between what they could see, to what we had been talking about together previously.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe children from the Little Ramblers and Little Adventurers rooms joined together and went for a walk into our local community where the children had plenty of opportunities to \u201clook in\u201d. Once we got to our woodland area, the Castle Grounds, we went to search for natural objects. We found a hole in a tree where there was moss growing inside of it. The children noticed it themselves and said, \u2018grass in there\u2019 and \u2018a caterpillar\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe continued our search and came across the hollow tree trunk in the picture above. It had leaves, stones and moss inside. The children went over to look in it with encouragement. When looking in, they said, \u2018No snakes\u2019, \u2018I see a caterpillar\u2019, \u2018I see stones\u2019, \u2018I see a baby snake\u2019 and one of the children started imitating the noise of a snake whilst playing with a stick. Since the children mentioned caterpillars and snakes to describe the moss, twigs and sticks, we thought it would be an interesting idea to do transient art with natural resources.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe children joined together again on a \u201cDaily mile\u201d walk and a visit to the nearby community area, Goathill Garden, in search of natural resources to collect into their backpacks. En route, we found some moss on walls and fences which we collected a little of from here and there. The children gently touched the moss with their fingers. We stopped at a grassy area and went in amongst the trees to collect more. The children went searching and found lots of different sizes, textures and shades of green moss and collected it, along with other natural objects, including pinecones and sticks. One child asked if a stick would fit in the bag, \u2018Will it go in there?\u2019. One of the bags was especially full and a child said to one of the adults, \u2018There\u2019s sticks and leaves in there. Its heavy. Feel it, Kelly\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u2018I found a stick\u2019, one child exclaimed and on the rest of our walk, the child tapped it along the wall, saying \u2018I\u2019m\u00a0boffing\u00a0the wall with my stick!\u2019. At the nearby garden, some children helped to gather more items and vocabulary such as \u2018stones\u2019, \u2018sticks\u2019, and \u2018leaves\u2019 were mentioned by many of the children. There was lots of moss on the ground that appeared to have fallen from the trees, some of which even had bark attached. The children picked things up with their hands, and they touched, felt, held,\u00a0poked\u00a0and squashed the different types of moss. One child\u00a0touched some moss growing on a tree and\u00a0said,\u00a0\u2018It\u2019s fluffy\u2019. When asked what the moss felt like, two other children also gave\u00a0the\u00a0descriptions, \u2018Really soft\u2019, and \u2018It feels like snow\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Here are some of the fantastic “transient art” creations that the children made –<\/p>\n

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Looking In \u201cFor this week\u2019s provocations, we started off the week by watching the Virtual Nature School videos to introduce the idea of \u201cLooking In\u201d. There was lots of discussion around bird\u2019s nests as you can see on the mind-mapping diagram.\u201d \u201cOne child saw this den in the nursery and exclaimed, \u2018It\u2019s a nest!\u2019, making … Continue reading Virtual Nature School Blog3<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4144,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","eportfolio_category-none"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/es\/stycc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/es\/stycc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/es\/stycc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/es\/stycc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/es\/stycc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/es\/stycc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":644,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/es\/stycc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions\/644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/es\/stycc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/es\/stycc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/es\/stycc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}