{"id":1514,"date":"2009-11-09T11:57:56","date_gmt":"2009-11-09T15:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.creativetots.com\/blog\/?p=1514"},"modified":"2009-11-09T11:57:56","modified_gmt":"2009-11-09T15:57:56","slug":"number-constellations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.creativetots.com\/blog\/number-constellations\/","title":{"rendered":"Number Constellations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1516\" style=\"width: 471px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1516\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1516 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.creativetots.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Stars-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Using a Toothpick to Poke &quot;Stars&quot; into our Number Eight\" width=\"461\" height=\"614\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.creativetots.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Stars-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.creativetots.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Stars-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 461px) 100vw, 461px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1516\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Using a Toothpick to Poke &quot;Stars&quot; into our Number Eight<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1517\" style=\"width: 624px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1517\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1517 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.creativetots.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/IMG_2713-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Number Eight Constellations at the Light Table\" width=\"614\" height=\"461\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.creativetots.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/IMG_2713-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.creativetots.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/IMG_2713-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1517\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Number Eight Constellations at the Light Table<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic';font-size: medium\"><span>Our focus this week is the number 8. \u00a0The children sat on the floor, placed their paper on the carpet, and used their fine motor muscles to poke holes through the paper along the lines of the number using a toothpick. This is a prewriting activity which allows the preschoolers to begin understanding the skill of writing. \u00a0We began at the top of the number (just as we would if we were writing the number with a pencil) and worked our way around to &#8220;write&#8221; the number. \u00a0When they were done, they took their papers to the light table to see the tiny stars in the shape of their number eight revealed. \u00a0This is an easy activity to be done at home with letters, names, shapes, or numbers. \u00a0You can give your child a flashlight and help them project the object on the wall! <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our focus this week is the number 8. \u00a0The children sat on the floor, placed their paper on the carpet, and used their fine motor muscles to poke holes through the paper along the lines of the number using a toothpick. This is a prewriting activity which allows the preschoolers to begin understanding the skill [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[66,10,11,1421],"class_list":["post-1514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-preschool","tag-fine-motor","tag-math","tag-numbers","tag-preschool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creativetots.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creativetots.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creativetots.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creativetots.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creativetots.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1514"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.creativetots.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1518,"href":"https:\/\/www.creativetots.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514\/revisions\/1518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creativetots.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creativetots.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creativetots.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}