{"id":2712,"date":"2020-09-23T15:43:10","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T15:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/dunrossnessp12\/?p=2712"},"modified":"2020-09-23T15:43:10","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T15:43:10","slug":"soft-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/dunrossnessp12\/2020\/09\/23\/soft-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Soft start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We get to have soft start activities in the mornings before we begin any writing.\u00a0 Sometimes our learning begins outside, sometimes it begins inside.\u00a0 Here are some photos of us with a soft start activity.\u00a0 This helps us to build up our fine motor skills and is a pre-handwriting activity.\u00a0 It helps to strengthen our hands\/fingers to help us with our pencil grip, writing etc.\u00a0 We loved it.\u00a0 What we had to do was build a tower using lego, but we only had a set amount of time to do it in.\u00a0 Then we got another go at it, the same amount of time and we had to see if we could get more blocks built on our tower to make it even bigger.<\/p>\n<p>Have a look at the concentration while we were doing it!\u00a0 It was great fun and we rose to the challenge!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2713\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/dunrossnessp12\/uploads\/sites\/1848\/2020\/09\/23154029\/IMG_2057.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1260\" height=\"945\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2714\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/dunrossnessp12\/uploads\/sites\/1848\/2020\/09\/23154034\/IMG_2058.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2715\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/dunrossnessp12\/uploads\/sites\/1848\/2020\/09\/23154038\/IMG_2060.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2716\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/dunrossnessp12\/uploads\/sites\/1848\/2020\/09\/23154043\/IMG_2063.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2717\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/dunrossnessp12\/uploads\/sites\/1848\/2020\/09\/23154046\/IMG_2071.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2718\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/dunrossnessp12\/uploads\/sites\/1848\/2020\/09\/23154051\/IMG_2073.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2719\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/dunrossnessp12\/uploads\/sites\/1848\/2020\/09\/23154055\/IMG_2074.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2720\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/dunrossnessp12\/uploads\/sites\/1848\/2020\/09\/23154102\/IMG_2075.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2721\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/dunrossnessp12\/uploads\/sites\/1848\/2020\/09\/23154105\/IMG_2079.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2722\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/dunrossnessp12\/uploads\/sites\/1848\/2020\/09\/23154110\/IMG_2080.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2723\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/dunrossnessp12\/uploads\/sites\/1848\/2020\/09\/23154112\/IMG_2082.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We get to have soft start activities in the mornings before we begin any writing.\u00a0 Sometimes our learning begins outside, sometimes it begins inside.\u00a0 Here are some photos of us with a soft start activity.\u00a0 This helps us to build up our fine motor skills and is a pre-handwriting activity.\u00a0 It helps to strengthen our &hellip; 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