{"id":721,"date":"2009-10-08T16:05:12","date_gmt":"2009-10-08T20:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.creativetots.com\/blog\/?p=721"},"modified":"2009-10-09T15:10:48","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T19:10:48","slug":"pumpkin-seeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.creativetots.com\/blog\/pumpkin-seeds\/","title":{"rendered":"Pumpkin Seeds!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-727\" src=\"http:\/\/www.creativetots.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/IMG_17762-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1776\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.creativetots.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/IMG_17762-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.creativetots.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/IMG_17762-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-725 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.creativetots.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/IMG_17771-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1777\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.creativetots.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/IMG_17771-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.creativetots.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/IMG_17771-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><span style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic'\">We continued name practice today with our Pumpkin Seed Letters. The preschoolers Identified the first letter of their name and placed pumpkin seeds all around that letter. Our names provide so much exposure to those important letters of the alphabet and are such a great tool for teaching. We talk about the first letter of our name and how it is ALWAYS uppercase while the rest of the letters in our name are lowercase. These types of activities are not only great for letter recognition but they start our students down the road of becoming readers! Children are excited to be able to read their own names and feel very proud when doing so! What a great confidence builder, too!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We continued name practice today with our Pumpkin Seed Letters. The preschoolers Identified the first letter of their name and placed pumpkin seeds all around that letter. Our names provide so much exposure to those important letters of the alphabet and are such a great tool for teaching. We talk about the first letter of [&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":[99,26,22,12,1421,153,88],"class_list":["post-721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-preschool","tag-counting","tag-kindergarten","tag-letter-sounds","tag-letters","tag-preschool","tag-readingletter-recognition","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creativetots.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721","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=721"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.creativetots.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":756,"href":"https:\/\/www.creativetots.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions\/756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creativetots.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creativetots.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creativetots.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}