{"id":879,"date":"2016-05-23T22:13:14","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T22:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/milngavienursery\/?p=879"},"modified":"2016-05-23T22:13:14","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T22:13:14","slug":"language-and-maths-with-natural-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/milngavienursery\/2016\/05\/23\/language-and-maths-with-natural-materials\/","title":{"rendered":"Language and Maths with natural materials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/milngavienursery\/files\/2016\/05\/IMG_12831-e1464040398766.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-859\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/milngavienursery\/files\/2016\/05\/IMG_12831-e1464040398766-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1283[1]\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/milngavienursery\/files\/2016\/05\/IMG_12941.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-860\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/milngavienursery\/files\/2016\/05\/IMG_12941-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1294[1]\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/milngavienursery\/files\/2016\/05\/IMG_12931.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-861\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/milngavienursery\/files\/2016\/05\/IMG_12931-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1293[1]\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This morning, Maureen, who is our outdoor play person just now, tried a really nice writing activity in the garden.\u00a0 She put out different natural materials: chalk, slate, charcoal, sand, sticks and leaves and invited the children to come and make their names.\u00a0 It was lovely to watch them trying the different materials as the experience was highly sensory.\u00a0 Each material had a different texture and some, like the charcoal and the leaves had a special smell.\u00a0 It not only gave practice in recognising and writing their names, it also was a great chance to talk about the sounds different letters made and a bit of a challenge to use the materials creatively to make letters.\u00a0 Holly was very clever in combining sticks and chalk to make her name on the slate.\u00a0 She would have had to look for ages for a circular stick so she improvised. What a smart cookie!<\/p>\n<p>In the afternoon Maureen changed the activity to pattern sequencing.\u00a0 Recognising, copying and creating simple patterns is part of the Early Level Maths curriculum.\u00a0 The children loved this too, and the descriptive language about colours, textures etc was excellent.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/milngavienursery\/files\/2016\/05\/IMG_18381-e1464041402195.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-880\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/milngavienursery\/files\/2016\/05\/IMG_18381-e1464041402195-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1838[1]\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, Maureen, who is our outdoor play person just now, tried a really nice writing activity in the garden.\u00a0 She put out different natural materials: chalk, slate, charcoal, sand, sticks and leaves and invited the children to come and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/milngavienursery\/2016\/05\/23\/language-and-maths-with-natural-materials\/\">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-879","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\/879","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=879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/milngavienursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":881,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/milngavienursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879\/revisions\/881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/milngavienursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/milngavienursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/milngavienursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}