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! 🍁🦔

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

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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