{"id":1330,"date":"2017-10-26T22:33:35","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T22:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/?p=1330"},"modified":"2017-12-28T22:34:05","modified_gmt":"2017-12-28T22:34:05","slug":"building-block-towers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2017\/10\/26\/building-block-towers\/","title":{"rendered":"Building Block Towers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Materials<br \/>\n<\/b>Blocks (we used square orange blocks)<br \/>\nFlat surface<\/p>\n<p><b>Directions<br \/>\n<\/b>Place blocks onto a hard surface. Encourage your child to build towers with the blocks.&nbsp; How high can you build a tower?&nbsp; How many blocks were used? What made for a successful tall tower? Introduce words such as balance, vertical, bottom, top, tall, tallest.&nbsp; Count the blocks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials Blocks (we used square orange blocks) Flat surface Directions Place blocks onto a hard surface. Encourage your child to build towers with the blocks.&nbsp; How high can you build a tower?&nbsp; How many blocks were used? What made for a successful tall tower? Introduce words such as balance, vertical, bottom, top, tall, tallest.&nbsp; Count &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2017\/10\/26\/building-block-towers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Building Block Towers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1331,"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-1330","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\/1330","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=1330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1332,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330\/revisions\/1332"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}