{"id":206,"date":"2018-01-07T14:53:35","date_gmt":"2018-01-07T22:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cting\/?p=206"},"modified":"2018-01-07T14:53:35","modified_gmt":"2018-01-07T22:53:35","slug":"building-with-blocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cting\/2018\/01\/07\/building-with-blocks\/","title":{"rendered":"Building with Blocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cting\/files\/2018\/01\/B6439960-7D25-46E7-A4EE-ED750360812A-e1515365336550.jpeg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-207\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cting\/files\/2018\/01\/B6439960-7D25-46E7-A4EE-ED750360812A-e1515365336550-224x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cting\/files\/2018\/01\/B6439960-7D25-46E7-A4EE-ED750360812A-e1515365336550-224x300.jpeg 224w, https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cting\/files\/2018\/01\/B6439960-7D25-46E7-A4EE-ED750360812A-e1515365336550-768x1028.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cting\/files\/2018\/01\/B6439960-7D25-46E7-A4EE-ED750360812A-e1515365336550-765x1024.jpeg 765w, https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cting\/files\/2018\/01\/B6439960-7D25-46E7-A4EE-ED750360812A-e1515365336550.jpeg 1936w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our students have been building increasingly complex structures with wooden blocks. \u00a0In December, we started using Keva planks that are all uniform in shape and size. \u00a0I once asked whether that would restrict creativity by using blocks that are all the same. Now I know that the opposite happens. \u00a0Instead of searching for a particular piece, students are focussed on thinking about what they are building and how they will build it. \u00a0Keva towers are taller than the children, and we taking slow-motion videos as we knock down the towers. \u00a0I will include new photos of Keva towers after we go back to school this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our students have been building increasingly complex structures with wooden blocks. \u00a0In December, we started using Keva planks that are all uniform in shape and size. \u00a0I once asked whether that would restrict creativity by using blocks that are all the same. Now I know that the opposite happens. \u00a0Instead of searching for a particular &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cting\/2018\/01\/07\/building-with-blocks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Building with Blocks<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":258,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/258"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions\/208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}