{"id":41314,"date":"2017-10-03T21:38:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T01:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.creativetots.com\/blog\/?p=41314"},"modified":"2017-10-03T21:38:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T01:38:00","slug":"scissor-skills-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.creativetots.com\/blog\/scissor-skills-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Scissor Skills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Does your child use scissors at home?\u00a0 We have been learning all about scissor safety and how to use and hold scissors in preschool.<\/p>\n<p>1st&#8230; Safety!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We never use scissors on anything except for paper or another material that is provided by a teacher.<\/li>\n<li>When walking with scissors, we hold the metal part in our hands so that if we were to fall, we are safe.<\/li>\n<li>we never point scissors at anyone<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tips for Holding and Using Scissors<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Out thumb goes in the little hole and our other fingers go in the bigger hole.<\/li>\n<li>Our thumb stays up, we don&#8217;t want to flip our hands over when cutting.<\/li>\n<li>We try and keep our elbow down and by our side, while focusing on turning the paper, now our arm!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We are working hard on this skill and our goal is to have this skill mastered by mid-winter!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does your child use scissors at home?\u00a0 We have been learning all about scissor safety and how to use and hold scissors in preschool. 1st&#8230; Safety! We never use scissors on anything except for paper or another material that is provided by a teacher. When walking with scissors, we hold the metal part in our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-preschool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creativetots.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41314","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=41314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.creativetots.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41316,"href":"https:\/\/www.creativetots.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41314\/revisions\/41316"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creativetots.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creativetots.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creativetots.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creativetots.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}