Need Snack Ideas for Nursery School?

Are you the Duty Parent in Snack? Are you stumped for ideas on what to bring? 

Here are a few snack ideas other than the usual fruit and veggies or cheese and crackers (we know that's an easy go-to..). Have fun, be creative. If you have an idea and are not sure if it’s okay just ask one of the teachers. Remember to have food from 2 food groups and be as Healthy as possible!

Trail mix, can include some or a variety of the following: Cheerios, shreddies, fishy crackers, pretzels, raisins, cranberries, mini marshmallows. Be creative as long as it is nut free.

• Bagel (Plain or cinnamon raisin) cream cheese & apple butter.
• Cinnamon toast (marg /butter /brown sugar /cinnamon)
• Apple sauce, plain or fruit flavoured.
• Rice cakes
• Graham wafers
• PC Mini chefs brand of cookies or crackers.
• Mini-go yogurt, yogurt tubes frozen,
• Vanilla yogurt with fruit for dipping.
• Fruit kabobs. Cut the sharp end off the sticks
• Bread sticks, ranch dressing for dipping.
• Tortillas roll ups. Use a variety of fillings
• Salsa & whole wheat chips.
• No sugar fruit cups /canned fruit
• Melba toast, cream cheese/cucumber
• Fruit salad
• Pickles
• Nilla wafers
• Apples & raisins
• PC mini no nut muffins
• PC mini bite pizzas
• English muffin pizzas
• Cereal & milk, oatmeal with chopped apples and raisins
• Pretzel sticks, fishy crackers  with cream cheese..Go fishing!
• Pancakes (use complete pancake mix)
• Bake Muffins in the kitchen (buy a no nut mix and bring it in)
• Fresh Vegetables with dip
• Smoothies 
• Melon balls and cubes

Our Kitchen is well equipped so duty parents can mix, bake, cook and prep. We encourage you to think beyond the cheese & cracker combo and have fun! If we have a special theme day (ie: Blue day - challenge yourself to bring a blue snack etc).  

As parents you know - the more fun your child has the more they will eat!

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom is a perfect nursery school story

One of Pearson's favourite literacy themed books is Chicka Chicka Boom Boom. The rhythmic cadence of the words make it easy to read out loud and the mischief the letters get into make it a fun story. It's the perfect circletime book to engage young preschoolers with.

Not only is this a fabulous book but it's built in with a great literacy theme that's simple to build on in the classroom. Each letter is represented in the story which provides numerous opportunities for additional learning!

Our preschool friends were busy painting palm trees that replicated the famous "coconut tree" in the story.

 Our felt "coconut tree" is a terrific learning resource for reenacting the story and practicing letter recognition. This activity got a lot of classroom use from curious students this week.

What a great book of the week! If you have the book at home, read it together and use it as a tool to ask your child about what we learned this week.

Digging For Dinosaurs

Preschoolers love Dinosaurs! And digging for dinos? Even better!

Pearson changed our sand to a fun purple shade, it's a dinosaurs favourite colour you know.... and it drew in major interest from the children. In all 4 classeses everyone wanted to excavate the dinos from the sand and play longer - such fun!

 Purple Volcano Sand

Crowded Sand Table  = Awesome Activity

French Program at Pearson Nursery School

Did you know that Pearson Nursery School introduced a new French component to two of their classes? In both our 2 afternoon class (2pm) and our Ready to Learn (RTL 3afternoons/ week) our students have a new regular French circletime in addition to our usual English lessons.

C'est tres bon pour mes amies!

Pearson Nursery School loves to learn about colours

Our Pearson Nursery School friends love to explore with colour and this week's book of the week "White Rabbit's Color Book" is a great tie in to both our love of bright colours and Easter.

We tied in the theme with creative arts and colour mixing - so much fun!! Each child was given an outline of a bunny and told to create colours on the page - we had an array of colours and rainbows at the creative table.

We All Go Travelling By

We are so lucky to have such wonderful books to share with the young minds that come into the Nursery school.This book with CD has been such a hit this week with that we have read it over and over again! You can even watch and listen to it at home.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSw50Jw0H34

This month's focus at Pearson is Transportation

Each week at Pearson we have a book of the week that we will read and build what we may be doing in the class around the book.This story has a great CD that we sung along to while looking at the book.We made shape trains and painted with cars for creative which the boys loved.