{"id":12950,"date":"2019-01-25T14:46:55","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T14:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/holycrossblog\/?p=12950"},"modified":"2019-01-25T14:46:55","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T14:46:55","slug":"we-are-paleontologists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/holycrossblog\/2019\/01\/25\/we-are-paleontologists\/","title":{"rendered":"We are paleontologists!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#8211; We have been finding out how fossils are formed and discovering what it&#8217;s like to be a paleontologist. The children used a variety of tools to excavate their own fossil.<\/p>\n<p>Literacy &#8211; We have started a new genre of instructional writing. The children are gaining skills in, writing an explanation of what is to be done, using clear steps in chronological order, subheadings and instructional verbs.<\/p>\n<p>Maths &#8211; The children are learning how to use a variety of mental models when adding and subtracting 2 and 3 digit numbers. The children are also using a range of numbers beyond 5 digits and carrying out simple calculations involving negative numbers.<\/p>\n<p>HWB &#8211; We&#8217;ve had great fun learning the steps for some Scottish country dances (it&#8217;s great excercise!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#8211; We have been finding out how fossils are formed and discovering what it&#8217;s like to be a paleontologist. The children used a variety of tools to excavate their own fossil. Literacy &#8211; We have started a new genre &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/holycrossblog\/2019\/01\/25\/we-are-paleontologists\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33616,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/holycrossblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/holycrossblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/holycrossblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/holycrossblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33616"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/holycrossblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/holycrossblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12951,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/holycrossblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12950\/revisions\/12951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/holycrossblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/holycrossblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/holycrossblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}