{"id":585,"date":"2017-06-01T19:09:13","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T19:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/?p=585"},"modified":"2017-07-13T20:25:17","modified_gmt":"2017-07-13T20:25:17","slug":"red-white-and-blue-unifx-cube-patterns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2017\/06\/01\/red-white-and-blue-unifx-cube-patterns\/","title":{"rendered":"Red, White, and Blue Unifx Cube Patterns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Materials<br \/>\n<\/b>3 small containers for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Unifix-Cubes-Package-300-Colors\/dp\/B000PUTNU8\/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1496339616&amp;sr=8-3&amp;keywords=unifix+cubes+100+count\">unifix cubes<\/a>: one with red unifix cubes, one with blue, unifix cubes, one with white unifix cubes<\/p>\n<p><b>Directions<br \/>\n<\/b>Invite your child to stack the cubes on top of each other. &nbsp;Older children can create various repeating patterns using the three colors of cubes. &nbsp;Younger children are practicing eye\/hand coordination with just stacking the cubes. Younger children may not be interested in creating patterns. Count the cubes. Encourage your kindergartener to stack colors in groups of 2&#8217;s, 5&#8217;s, or 10&#8217;s (2 reds, 2 whites, 2 blues) and then count by 2&#8217;s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials 3 small containers for unifix cubes: one with red unifix cubes, one with blue, unifix cubes, one with white unifix cubes Directions Invite your child to stack the cubes on top of each other. &nbsp;Older children can create various repeating patterns using the three colors of cubes. &nbsp;Younger children are practicing eye\/hand coordination with &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2017\/06\/01\/red-white-and-blue-unifx-cube-patterns\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Red, White, and Blue Unifx Cube Patterns&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":586,"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-585","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\/585","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=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":587,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions\/587"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}