{"id":198,"date":"2021-07-02T17:06:46","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T16:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/oakburn\/?p=198"},"modified":"2021-07-02T17:06:46","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T16:06:46","slug":"the-acorn-room-2-07-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/oakburn\/the-acorn-room-2-07-21\/","title":{"rendered":"The Acorn Room 2\/07\/21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">Our little Acorns, have been very active and curious this week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">The children chose to engage in our \u201cWe are going on a bear hunt\u201d book where they showed an interest in pointing at the bears body parts. We followed their interest and provided mirrors and an experience of point to your&#8230; This supported our little Acorns as they began to learn their body parts. We followed this on with a painting experience, the children were keen to paint there hands and feet. P.M- \u201cpaint nonies hands\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">We then supported their numeracy skills, creating spiders with peg legs.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The children counted their legs O.M- \u201c1,2,3,4,5\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">One of our little Acorns was wearing a top that had mini beasts on it, they showed an interest in looking at their top and naming the bugs. We then got out a bug game, we caught the little bugs, developing their fine motor skills and naming them , promoting language.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">Our little Acorns have been beginning to develop early friendships with their peers as they explore what our centre has to offer them. A child pointed at their friends and their Early Years Worker (EYW) named them.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>With this we created photos of all the peers to support the children learn each other\u2019s names. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">We have created a self registration with this to allow the children to strive to develop their self help skills\/independence.<\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-199\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/oakburn\/files\/2021\/07\/24157177-D6EC-495B-AAA2-5E02B33CB28E-225x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-200\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/oakburn\/files\/2021\/07\/907D4CD7-6D79-45AE-A99F-6C52012693F3-225x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-201\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/oakburn\/files\/2021\/07\/3579C1AA-A78C-4A8A-811C-1FE28A154BB8-225x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our little Acorns, have been very active and curious this week. The children chose to engage in our \u201cWe are going on a bear hunt\u201d book where they showed an interest in pointing at the bears body parts. We followed their interest and provided mirrors and an experience of point to your&#8230; This supported our &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/oakburn\/the-acorn-room-2-07-21\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Acorn Room 2\/07\/21&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/oakburn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/oakburn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/oakburn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/oakburn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/oakburn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/oakburn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/oakburn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions\/202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/oakburn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/oakburn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/oakburn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}