This Week at Pearson: Orange & Black Day and Halloween Party! 

Orange crush, apricot, peach or paprika,

Persimmon, papaya, tangerine or pumpkin pie? 

Onyx, charcoal, black bean or licorice, 

Midnight, outer space, jet or starry sky?

Put on your favourite shades of orange & black to come and play,

At Pearson on Tuesday and Wednesday for festive Orange & Black Day!

Halloween Party

Calling all pirates, princesses and superheroes too, 

Witches, goblins and ghosts that say BOO!

This Thursday and Friday the monsters will mash, 

At Pearson for a spooktacular Halloween bash!

Join us if you dare!

Children are invited to dress up in their Halloween costumes this Thursday and Friday for a day full of Halloween fun! Happy Halloween!

Book of the Week: Ten Red Apples

“Ten red apples hanging on a tree. Yippee, fiddle-dee-fee!”

This week, the students will enjoy joining in the rhyme as they count apples in Ten Red Apples, by Pat Hutchins.

If your child was a part of last week's field trip to Frootogo Orchards and farm, he or she might make some interesting connections—the apples and animals in the book are much like what they saw last week!

Re-live the book at home with this YouTube video:

This Week at Pearson: Apple Tasting & Special Guest Day!

"A" is for Apple! Red Delicious, Golden Delicious, Fuji and Granny Smith. Royal Gala, Pink Lady, McIntosh and Honeycrisp. Whether they like their apples sour or sweet, the kids this week are in for a juicy treat! The little apple of your eye will be tasting apples this Thursday and Friday at Pearson. Happy tasting!



Special Guest Day is also this week on Saturday, October 25th. Pearson families are welcome to drop in between the hours of 9:00 and 11:30 am. Come see the classroom, meet the teachers, and watch your preschooler in action!

Dress Like a Farmer Day: The Photos

Check out a few photos from last week's Dress Like a Farmer Day!

Book of the Week: The Farmyard Jamboree

Thanksgiving is over and everybody is full from dinner, home from their travels, and tucked tight in their own beds.

This week, we’re heading back to the farm with our Book of the Week. And just like last week, we’re going to sing and dance our way there!

The Farmyard Jamboree, written by Margaret Read MacDonald and charmingly illustrated by Sophie Fatus, encourages children to bark, moo and quack as they are introduced to the farmyard animals and their babies.

Check out the singalong video, with music from Bob King:



A fun link:

Download some books for your next holiday drive with these podcasts from publisher Barefoot Books.</>

This week at Pearson: Frootogo Field Trip!

Taste a crispy apple,
Enjoy a bumpy wagon ride,
Skip through the pumpkin patch,
Visit Toyland for a climb and a slide!
 
Hop like the floppy-eared bunnies,
maaa-haaa with the goats,
and don't forget to check the weather,
in case you need your boots and raincoats!

Get ready for some Fall farm fun! The Frootogo Orchards field trip is Wednesday, October 15th and Thursday, October 16th. Please note that children are to be dropped off and picked up at Frootogo (573 Parkside Drive, Waterdown) and please take note of the special drop off and pick up times: 9:30 - 11:00 a.m. for the morning classes and 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. for the afternoon classes. Happy Thanksgiving!

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This Week at Pearson: Dress Like A Farmer

Harvest the crops at the first light of day, milk the cows and bale the hay,
Ride your tractors, plough the fields, feed the pigs and see what them chickens did lay,
Get a baaa, a mooo, an oink and a neigh,
This week is dress like a farmer day!

Children are invited to dress like a farmer on Wednesday and Thursday this week. Grab those straw hats, handkerchiefs, overalls and boots and mosey on down to class to say howdy ho. It's gonna be a hoedown, showdown, hog-tootin' throwdown kind of a day.
Yeehaw! 
(Fingers crossed there's no waking with the roosters at the crack of dawn!)

*** Reminder: Permission forms for the Frootogo field trip are due Thursday October 9th / Friday October 10th ***

Book of the Week: A Farmer’s Life for Me

“One, two, three, it’s a farmer’s life for me!”

Do your little ones ever wonder where eggs come from? This week, we're taking them on a trip to the farm with our Book of the Week.

Written by Jan Dobbins and colourfully illustrated by Laura Huliska-Beith, A Farmer’s Life for Me tells the story of a group of friends who spend a day working and playing on the farm.

Watch the singalong video, featuring music by the Flannery Brothers, with your child, and bring this week’s book to life!