We found a butterfly today in the school hallway. We rescued it. Once we had a look at it we let it go out in our garden. #antosocialstudies #antocuriosity

A small group of children explored feelings and emotions through STEM. The activity encouraged self-awareness and emotional literacy in a fun and engaging way. “ I feel happy when I get cuddles from AM” All children who choose to explore were confident at talking in small group gathering.

Some children were engaging in block play by creating boats, campfires, and houses demonstrating rich imagination and creativity. Such high levels of engagement as they used the blocks to aid their imaginative role play.

Thankyou to our families who joined us today for the MacMillan coffee morning❤️ raising money for such a good cause and spending valuable time with our loved ones! We appreciate all the baking and donations so much!

Our children have been so interested in numeracy, staff prepared a sorting and counting autumn activity. Our children showed amazing counting as they used a one to one correspondence to count the acorns! “ that’s 8” such confident individuals! 🌿

Join us to make salt dough this week for STEM at our stay and play this week 😃

Staff followed children’s interests forward as F showed engagement in discussions around superhero’s. We explored Technology as we made our own superhero’s from salt dough! “ it’s made it hard”

Autumn animals are a topic of conversation within our playroom today. In the art area children have been making their own hedgehogs. Great awareness of shape, size and colour through being creative 🥰

“We have made a big bed so we can have a nap” Lots of amazing team work today as C & R designed and built their very own bed for ELC!! 🛏️ 💤

We have noticed the change in weather and have had lots of chats around autumn. Our children created their very own autumn pictures today and shared there thoughts on autumn. “The leaves fall off the trees 🌲 “ “Animals get lots of food and hide it for when it’s cold” Great prior knowledge! 🍁🦔

🔴REMIMDER🔴 ELC and school photo day is Tuesday 23rd September

Just a reminder we have our STEM/maths stay and play next week. Please sign up in the cloakroom #antofamilylearning

Yo ho yo ho a pirates life for me 🏴‍☠️ E made her very own pirate ship today in the art area, lots of creativity, imagination and rein acting real life/imaginary situations!

We are curious about foods we eat and today we have played a match and sort game to dofferentiate between fruits, vegetables, meat and fish! Lots of amazing prior knowledge 👏

Lots of mark making outdoors. Amazing representation within drawings and amazing conversations as the children share their thoughts, feelings and ideas! 😍

C was so excited to share that he went to the stock car racing at the weekend. We continued this interest through junk modelling where he created his own race car and track. He then went to the block area where he created a race track 🏎️ 🏁🏎️ amazing creativity and imagination.

We have a Numeracy/Stem stay and play running next week wk beg 22nd September. Sign up sheets are avalible in the cloakroom #antofamilylearning #antofamilyengagement #antostem #antonumeracy

After completing self evaluation on our spaces we worked as a team to develop our ELC! We moved some of our areas ensuring light, welcoming spaces. We are developing an interest space in our cloakroom and are adding to our parents information notice boards. Look out for more photos next week.

The next time you're in ELC have a look at our "you said, we did" display from our end of term questionnaire. #antoparentvoice #antoparentviews

Over the last couple of weeks we have shown a huge interest in mark making using lots of different resources. Our children are loving challenge through literacy and numeracy and have shown amazing ability to write letters numbers and form words! We are so proud of you all!💞👏

We enjoyed a lovely unhurried walk, conversations were flowing and we had a group of happy children ❤️ stopping of at our local park for a play was so fun!

Super proud of you E, practicing writing numbers and doing some addition sums 👏 ❤️

Another lovely morning at our family breakfast in Antonine ELC. Thank you everyone for attending with your children. We look forward to our next stay and play sessions. 💛

When you need a quiet space to explore the figures from the busy books. E and M found the perfect spot to explore the new small world figures, great use of our imaginations #antohealthandwb #antosocialskills #antoliteracy #antocuriosity

Thank you for attending our family breakfast. We really appreciate your time and your children love sharing their learning with you. 💛

It was lovely to have some of our families join us today for a family breakfast. Thank you and we hope you had a lovely morning with your childen. 💛

Lots of problem solving as a group of children used the guttering to explore force through water play. Amazing team work 💦

Our children have shown such an interest in living things. This week we have explored our garden space as well as our local community. We even had some little visitors jumping around our garden! Such nurturing individuals we have as they were gentle and caring towards living things!🕷️🐌 #digitalskills

Some amazing creations in the block area this morning 🧱🤩

Our 5 core books for this session are below. These books will always be on offer throughout the year By having our core books it provides consistency,allows repetition,develops a deep understanding of the story.Other books are provided and changed in line with children's development and interests

Two friends got creative at the blocks. They worked together as a team, discussing what they were building. Fantastic risk assessing took place and they carefully used the steps to reach the top! #antostem #antoblockplay #antotechnology #antoliteracy #antomaths #antohandwb

Developing our mark making skills and understanding of literacy and numeracy through play #leadinglearning #antomaths #antoliteracy

We have really enjoyed exploring our whiteboard that was donated to us by a friend of the ELC. Staff showed C how to play knots and crosses C"3 in a row wins!" C shared the game with his friends. We have had lots of fun playing it. #antomaths #antoliteracy #sharingandturntaking #friendships

Proud moment ❤️ 🚲

We’ve visited the playground this week, it is so good to be back with all our friends and engaging in lots of different play experiences. Through outdoor play we are building relationships, sharing and turntaking and engaging is risky play. We have really good balance and coordination skills 😀

How amazing is this “Castle” that our new learner has made today! Lots of concentration, problem solving and attention to detail. It looks fabulous! Well done 😃

A lovely unhurried walk to our local park and nature reserve. Our children are loving being back at ELC and are so eager to explore our environment and community. Building friendships and sharing lots of stories on our walk today 🌲 ❤️

Exploring number through ICT, using the smart board. I was getting creative in the art area. #antostem #antocreativity #antomaths

We are all looking forward to seeing all of our returning children today. We can't wait to see what adventures we'll get up to this year ❤️

Good Luck to our Friends as rhwy start their new adventure into Primary 1 today! Go and be amazing ❤️

We had lots of fun at Sports Day. Well done, everyone 💛

What a fantastic afternoon we had at our sports day🏃🏼‍♀️‍➡️🏃‍➡️

What a fantastic afternoon we had at our sports day this week🏃🏼‍♀️‍➡️🏃🏻‍➡️

Lunch in the hall with our new buddies🥰 we will continue to have lots of opportunities to get to know our buddies. Thankyou for helping us learn the lunch routine today ❤️.

Family breakfast thank you for joining us 💛

Lots of fun at our lovely family breakfast. Thank you 💛

Thank you to everyone that joined us for a lovely family breakfast. We really appreciated it. 💛

Another lovely transition visit to Primary 1 this morning. The children had lots of fun and were confident taking me to the Primary 1 area. Well done 💛

A fun walk this afternoon exploring our local community. We visited local shops, the park and even found out some history about bonnybridge. The memorial gardens had a remembrance of Vday so there was lots of chats around world war and the soldiers. We were excited to find a Scotland flag 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 !

The best sunny morning at our fairy garden making a stick house, climbing the trees and having a little picnic 🌲 🌳