{"id":2728,"date":"2020-09-28T14:30:29","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T14:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/dunrossnessp12\/?p=2728"},"modified":"2020-09-28T14:30:29","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T14:30:29","slug":"chasing-those-blues-away-and-starting-the-day-with-a-nice-easy-task","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/dunrossnessp12\/2020\/09\/28\/chasing-those-blues-away-and-starting-the-day-with-a-nice-easy-task\/","title":{"rendered":"Chasing those blues away and starting the day with a nice easy task"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soft start activities are important to help ease into the school day.\u00a0 These help with pre-handwriting skills, strengthening hands, grasp etc and most importantly they are fun.<\/p>\n<p>These type of activities may be going to the Dough Disco, which we do regularly.\u00a0 That is great fun!\u00a0 It might also be the &#8216;Cheerio Challenge&#8217; where the children have to try and thread cheerios onto a skewer in a set time.\u00a0 Then, they have to try and get faster and improve on this skill.\u00a0 They love it.\u00a0 Here are some pictures.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2729\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/dunrossnessp12\/uploads\/sites\/1848\/2020\/09\/28142735\/IMG_2085.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1260\" height=\"945\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2730\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/dunrossnessp12\/uploads\/sites\/1848\/2020\/09\/28142742\/IMG_2086.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2731\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/dunrossnessp12\/uploads\/sites\/1848\/2020\/09\/28142749\/IMG_2087.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2732\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/dunrossnessp12\/uploads\/sites\/1848\/2020\/09\/28142755\/IMG_2088.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2733\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/dunrossnessp12\/uploads\/sites\/1848\/2020\/09\/28142801\/IMG_2089.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2734\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/dunrossnessp12\/uploads\/sites\/1848\/2020\/09\/28142805\/IMG_2091.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2735\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/dunrossnessp12\/uploads\/sites\/1848\/2020\/09\/28142812\/IMG_2093.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2736\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/dunrossnessp12\/uploads\/sites\/1848\/2020\/09\/28142818\/IMG_2095.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2737\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/dunrossnessp12\/uploads\/sites\/1848\/2020\/09\/28142826\/IMG_2096.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2738\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/dunrossnessp12\/uploads\/sites\/1848\/2020\/09\/28142829\/IMG_2102.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2739\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/dunrossnessp12\/uploads\/sites\/1848\/2020\/09\/28142835\/IMG_2105.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2740\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/dunrossnessp12\/uploads\/sites\/1848\/2020\/09\/28142839\/IMG_2108.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2741\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/dunrossnessp12\/uploads\/sites\/1848\/2020\/09\/28142844\/IMG_2116.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2742\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/dunrossnessp12\/uploads\/sites\/1848\/2020\/09\/28142846\/IMG_2120.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2743\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/dunrossnessp12\/uploads\/sites\/1848\/2020\/09\/28142851\/IMG_2125.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2744\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/dunrossnessp12\/uploads\/sites\/1848\/2020\/09\/28142853\/IMG_2127.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2745\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/dunrossnessp12\/uploads\/sites\/1848\/2020\/09\/28142856\/IMG_2131.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soft start activities are important to help ease into the school day.\u00a0 These help with pre-handwriting skills, strengthening hands, grasp etc and most importantly they are fun. These type of activities may be going to the Dough Disco, which we do regularly.\u00a0 That is great fun!\u00a0 It might also be the &#8216;Cheerio Challenge&#8217; where the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/dunrossnessp12\/2020\/09\/28\/chasing-those-blues-away-and-starting-the-day-with-a-nice-easy-task\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chasing those blues away and starting the day with a nice easy task<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2345,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[85606,85578,85677,85608],"class_list":["post-2728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fine-motor-skills","tag-hands-on","tag-pre-handwriting","tag-soft-start"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/dunrossnessp12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/dunrossnessp12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/dunrossnessp12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/dunrossnessp12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/dunrossnessp12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/dunrossnessp12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2746,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/dunrossnessp12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2728\/revisions\/2746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/dunrossnessp12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/dunrossnessp12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/dunrossnessp12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}