{"id":242,"date":"2026-06-04T19:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T18:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/bellsbraep1\/?p=242"},"modified":"2026-06-04T19:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T18:08:07","slug":"subtraction-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/bellsbraep1\/2026\/06\/04\/subtraction-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Subtraction song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We warmed up by listening to Jack Hartmann&#8217;s subtraction song.\u00a0 We then practised our number formation using whiteboard pens before completing subtraction pages in our workbooks.\u00a0 We had a class discussion about\u00a0 what subtraction means.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;it&#8217;s taking away&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;making a number smaller&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;it&#8217;s minus&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;it means less than&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I can use finger patterns to help&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Subtraction Song for kids | Subtraction Facts | Subtraction Action | Jack Hartmann\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pwQKugrFmJQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We warmed up by listening to Jack Hartmann&#8217;s subtraction song.\u00a0 We then practised our number formation using whiteboard pens before completing subtraction pages in our workbooks.\u00a0 We had a class discussion about\u00a0 what subtraction means. &#8216;it&#8217;s taking away&#8217; &#8216;making a number smaller&#8217; &#8216;it&#8217;s minus&#8217; &#8216;it means less than&#8217; &#8216;I can use finger patterns to help&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3546,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/bellsbraep1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/bellsbraep1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/bellsbraep1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/bellsbraep1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3546"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/bellsbraep1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/bellsbraep1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/bellsbraep1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions\/243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/bellsbraep1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/bellsbraep1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/bellsbraep1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}