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Awesome Acorns News 5.14.10

May 18, 2010

Three Bears and Porridge
The Awesome Acorns have enjoyed exploring the folk tale of Goldilocks and the three bears this week. We have read several versions, including one of an Inuit girl who snooped around the igloo of 3 polar bears by Jan Brett. We also read Somebody and the Three Blairs which is about a cub who [...]

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Awesome Acorns’ Account 4.8.10

April 9, 2010

I will be out of town next week attending a conference for curriculum writers. Mrs. Wyant and Mrs. Tarzinski will be in to sub on Monday and Wednesday. (No school next Friday.) Sign up for a parent teacher conference for Wednesday, April 21 while your child has class.
It is good to be back [...]

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Awesome Acorns 3.24.10

March 24, 2010

Line Small Group
AJ, Annaleah, Gwen, Kaden and Katie looked at the lines that made up the letters of their names this week. They had to figure out which lines were straight and which lines were curved.  Then they glued collage materials to these lines such as straws, yarn, ribbon, etc.
Wind Small Group
Connor, Dahlia, Edward, Evelynn, [...]

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Awesome Acorns Homework for 3.15.10

March 15, 2010

Your child has participated in the WIND small group for the past weeks.  Today we observed a wind chime outside and had a discussion about it.
We decided:

the wind makes the wind chime move
the pieces of the wind chime hit each other and make noise

We went [...]

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Awesome Acorns 3.5.10

March 8, 2010

Line Small Group
AJ, Annaleah, Gwen, Kaden and Katie continued to work with lines this week. They took a walk around the church looking for various types of lines. Some of the children realized that lines can be put together to make shapes.
Wind Small Group
Connor, Dahlia, Edward, Evelynn, Jack and Sydney continued to observe wind. We [...]

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