{"id":1220,"date":"2017-10-05T14:42:08","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T14:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/?p=1220"},"modified":"2017-10-26T14:43:17","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T14:43:17","slug":"counting-blueberries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2017\/10\/05\/counting-blueberries\/","title":{"rendered":"Counting Blueberries"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Materials<\/h4>\n<p>Blue playdough<br \/>\nNumeral cards 1-10<br \/>\nMuffin template<\/p>\n<h4>Directions<\/h4>\n<p>Invite your child to roll small balls out of playdough to make blueberries. &nbsp;This is a nice follow up after reading,&nbsp;<i>Blueberries for Sal<\/i>&nbsp;by Robert McCloskey. &nbsp;If you have a small pail, encourage your child to drop them into the pail. Once he has made 10 or more blueberries, place numeral cards facedown on the table. &nbsp;Invite your child to turn over a card and identify the numeral. He then places that many blueberries onto the muffin template. Continue practicing identifying the numerals. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Lesson Extension<\/h4>\n<p>Encourage your child to place numerals in numerical order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials Blue playdough Numeral cards 1-10 Muffin template Directions Invite your child to roll small balls out of playdough to make blueberries. &nbsp;This is a nice follow up after reading,&nbsp;Blueberries for Sal&nbsp;by Robert McCloskey. &nbsp;If you have a small pail, encourage your child to drop them into the pail. Once he has made 10 or &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2017\/10\/05\/counting-blueberries\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Counting Blueberries&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1221,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games-and-activities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1222,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220\/revisions\/1222"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}