{"id":629,"date":"2020-10-26T13:04:04","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T13:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/kpsp21920\/?p=629"},"modified":"2020-10-26T13:04:04","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T13:04:04","slug":"giant-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/kpsp21920\/2020\/10\/26\/giant-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-631\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/public\/kpsp21920\/uploads\/sites\/3674\/2020\/10\/26130325\/IMG_0154.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1260\" height=\"739\" \/>We LOVED reading the BFG in block 1. We tried to imagine what Giant Country would look like using the description in the text to help us. &#8216;The ground was flat and pale yellow.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Great lumps of blue rock were scattered around.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Dead trees stood everywhere like skeletons.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The mountain was dark blue.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>We mixed shades of yellow &amp; blue to create our background. Once they had dried, we added skeleton trees using charcoal. We cut out rocks and mountains from our blue painted paper. Finally, we added a pencil drawing we had done of the BFG. We think we&#8217;ve done a great job of re-creating Giant Country. Thanks to Mrs Ryalls for her brilliant display skills!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-593\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/public\/kpsp21920\/uploads\/sites\/3674\/2020\/10\/21142050\/IMG_0119.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1260\" height=\"945\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-597\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/public\/kpsp21920\/uploads\/sites\/3674\/2020\/10\/21142100\/IMG_0123.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1260\" height=\"945\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We LOVED reading the BFG in block 1. We tried to imagine what Giant Country would look like using the description in the text to help us. &#8216;The ground was flat and pale yellow.\u2019 &#8216;Great lumps of blue rock were scattered around.\u2019 \u2018Dead trees stood everywhere like skeletons.\u2019 \u2018The mountain was dark blue.\u2019 We mixed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/kpsp21920\/2020\/10\/26\/giant-country\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Giant Country<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1432,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/kpsp21920\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/kpsp21920\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/kpsp21920\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/kpsp21920\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1432"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/kpsp21920\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/kpsp21920\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":632,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/kpsp21920\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions\/632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/kpsp21920\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/kpsp21920\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/kpsp21920\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}