{"id":11795,"date":"2022-10-25T13:20:40","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T13:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/uphallprimary\/?p=11795"},"modified":"2022-10-25T13:20:40","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T13:20:40","slug":"literacy-in-the-calm-corner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/uphallprimary\/2022\/10\/25\/literacy-in-the-calm-corner\/","title":{"rendered":"Literacy in the Calm Corner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Handwriting can be relaxing or it can be something that children find challenging.  The boys were very confused this morning when our handwriting had no pens or pencils &#8211; instead we practised getting our hands ready for writing, with sand, playdough and paper scrunching and tearing.  The boys also got to write in big letters on the promethean board.<\/p>\n<p>Our calm book area has a lovely new set of Roald Dahl books thanks to Mrs Glen.  Mrs Glen and Mr McCabe read these books with the children at snack time, and I think they both enjoy this as much as the pupils!<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div data-carousel-extra='{\"blog_id\":3034,\"permalink\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\\\/wl\\\/uphallprimary\\\/2022\\\/10\\\/25\\\/literacy-in-the-calm-corner\\\/\"}' id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-11795 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a 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The boys were very confused this morning when our handwriting had no pens or pencils &#8211; instead we practised getting our hands ready for writing, with sand, playdough and paper scrunching and tearing. The boys also got to write in big letters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":823,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/uphallprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/uphallprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/uphallprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/uphallprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/823"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/uphallprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11795"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/uphallprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11801,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/uphallprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11795\/revisions\/11801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/uphallprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/uphallprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/uphallprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}