{"id":188,"date":"2021-02-01T15:15:40","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T15:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sl\/woodhillelc\/?p=188"},"modified":"2021-02-01T16:47:39","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T16:47:39","slug":"mondays-suggested-storybook-and-activity-idea-the-smartest-giant-in-town-promote-kindness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sl\/woodhillelc\/?p=188","title":{"rendered":"Monday&#8217;s Suggested Storybook and Activity Idea &#8211; The Smartest Giant in Town &#8211; Promote Kindness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Everyone,<\/p>\n<p>Here is the story The Smartest Giant in Town by Julia Donaldson being read by Isabell. The story is about a giant who bought new clothes for himself. He met new people who needed his help , so he gave them his new clothes and accessories in order to help them out. the story is a very easy way to teach your child about generosity and friendship.<\/p>\n<p>Suggested Activity \u2026<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Use you and your child&#8217;s creativity skills to create a house for the characters in the story book. The children and staff in the nursery created a house using a shoe for a mouse today!<\/li>\n<li>Decorate your characters house, developing your child&#8217;s fine motor skills and creativity skills by using a range of materials to cut and stick down.<\/li>\n<li>Find socks and encourage your child to pair them up developing your child&#8217;s knowledge of matching and sorting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Next Steps:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Create role play situations with your child using their characters and their houses developing their imagination skills.<\/li>\n<li>Explore the size of socks and sort them into small medium and large to develop knowledge of size.<\/li>\n<li>Introduce mathematical language massive, huge, tiny, medium etc when discussing the size of the socks.<\/li>\n<li>Promote memory recall by encouraging your child to tell you parts of the story that they can remember sharing likes and dislikes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Smartest Giant in Town\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/k8D9mNRrz1c?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>Hello Everyone, Here is the story The Smartest Giant in Town by Julia Donaldson being read by Isabell. The story is about a giant who bought new clothes for himself. He met new people who needed his help , so he gave them his new clothes and accessories in order to help them out. the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sl\/woodhillelc\/?p=188\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Monday&#8217;s Suggested Storybook and Activity Idea &#8211; The Smartest Giant in Town &#8211; Promote Kindness&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22902,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,12,9,11,5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-creativity","category-health-and-wellbeing","category-literacy","category-numeracy","category-the-forrest-room","category-the-orchard-room","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sl\/woodhillelc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sl\/woodhillelc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sl\/woodhillelc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sl\/woodhillelc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22902"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sl\/woodhillelc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sl\/woodhillelc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sl\/woodhillelc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions\/189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sl\/woodhillelc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sl\/woodhillelc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sl\/woodhillelc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}