{"id":2205,"date":"2018-04-11T16:28:18","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T16:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/?p=2205"},"modified":"2018-04-13T13:15:37","modified_gmt":"2018-04-13T13:15:37","slug":"flower-petal-counting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/04\/11\/flower-petal-counting\/","title":{"rendered":"Flower Petal Counting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Materials<\/strong><br \/>\nFlower Petal Counting Sheet (you can easily make one on the computer or draw one by hand)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dollartree.com\/Ocean-Blue-Luster-Gems-14-oz-Bags\/p315833\/index.pro\">Flat floral marbles<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Directions<\/strong><br \/>\nPlace floral marbles in a small bowl or basket. Invite your toddler to use the marbles to make petals around the colored circles.&nbsp; Count the marbles.<\/p>\n<p>For preschool-age children, write a different numeral in the center of each circle. Invite your preschooler to place the correct number of petals on each flower. Ask, &#8220;Which flower has the most petals?&#8221; &#8220;Which flower has the least?&#8221; &#8220;How many more petals does the blue flower have than the yellow flower?&#8221;&nbsp; &#8220;What if I add two petals to the pink flower? Now how many petals does it have?&#8221; The questions are endless and really help strengthen number sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials Flower Petal Counting Sheet (you can easily make one on the computer or draw one by hand) Flat floral marbles Directions Place floral marbles in a small bowl or basket. Invite your toddler to use the marbles to make petals around the colored circles.&nbsp; Count the marbles. For preschool-age children, write a different numeral &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/04\/11\/flower-petal-counting\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Flower Petal Counting&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":2206,"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-2205","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\/2205","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\/101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2205"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2219,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205\/revisions\/2219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}