{"id":229,"date":"2016-02-24T12:48:47","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T12:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/milngavienursery\/?p=229"},"modified":"2016-02-24T12:48:47","modified_gmt":"2016-02-24T12:48:47","slug":"cutting-and-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/milngavienursery\/2016\/02\/24\/cutting-and-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"Cutting and writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning we practised our cutting and writing skills at homebase time using our very strong fingers that we have been exercising all week! \u00a0Colouring-in has always been a forbidden activity at nursery as it was argued that it stifled creativity. \u00a0We have put Paw Patrol colouring in sheets in the writing area as an experiment, and it is amazing how popular they are- especially with boys! \u00a0They really help to see how pencil control and grip are developing! \u00a0Maybe with the rise in popularity of adult colouring in books, nurseries will be allowed to let children learn this skill again. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning we practised our cutting and writing skills at homebase time using our very strong fingers that we have been exercising all week! \u00a0Colouring-in has always been a forbidden activity at nursery as it was argued that it stifled &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/milngavienursery\/2016\/02\/24\/cutting-and-writing\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50272,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/milngavienursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/milngavienursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/milngavienursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/milngavienursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50272"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/milngavienursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/milngavienursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/milngavienursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions\/230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/milngavienursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/milngavienursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/milngavienursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}