September tuition and annual fees for the 2010-11 school year is due by July 15th. Thanks!
Vote for The Acorn!Posted in Acorn News on July 10, 2010 by Jo Once again The Acorn has been nominated for best preschool in San Antonio! We were voted #1 in 2009, and with your votes, we can do it again in 2010! Thanks!!!! Parents Choice NominationsPosted in Acorn News on June 03, 2010 by Jo
The Acorn was voted Best Preschool in San Antonio for 2009, and this year's nominations are open until June 17th. Click The Acorn Press - April, 2010Posted in Acorn News on April 16, 2010 by Jo
Inside this Newsletter We are so very grateful to everyone who has made donations over the past six weeks: Kimi and Marshall Lasswell, Yardley and Bruce Bowen, Lisa and Jeff Rouse, Juliette and Marc Laliberte, Stephanie and Brett Alvheim, and grandparents Paula and Dan Butt, and Gerry and Randy Fleuriet, and alumni Blair and Dan Perry. With all of these invaluable donations, all of your help, and the generous bidding at the Fundraiser, we have successfully covered our operating deficit for this school year, which is quite an achievement in this tough economy. We thank you so much, and we truly appreciate all of your support in helping us create a fun, developmentally appropriate start to your children’s education here at The Acorn!
Mother’s Days: May brings the very special Mother’s Day Celebrations at The Acorn! Below is the schedule of each class’s time to honor our Acorn Moms! Please be sure to make arrangements for siblings, as this is your Acorn child’s special time to be with you on your day! Thanks!
Acorn Memorial Brick Walkway: Would you like a special way to be a part of The Acorn’s history? You can order your child’s name engraved on an Acorn walkway brick! We frequently glance out the window to see alumni walking up and down the path, looking at their brick and those of their friends. For a $75 donation, a child, parent, grandparent, etc., can have their name engraved on a brick and be remembered forever. Some people have even engraved their company name. When we have the reunion of all the graduating high school seniors each year here at the school, one of the highlights will be the children finding their bricks again. We have over 600 bricks in the walkway now, and it increases every year. We add in lots of bricks each summer so please take this opportunity to be to be included in this Acorn “monument’. This will be your last opportunity this year, and every Acorn child really should have a brick by which to be remembered. The 4 day pm and 5 yr. class fiesta is Tuesday afternoon, 4/20. The 3 day am and 5 day am fiesta is Wednesday morning, 4/21. The Kindergarten and 2 day fiesta is Thursday, 4/22.
Reminder: Upcoming Holiday Fiesta: Friday, April 23 – NO SCHOOL On our links page, there is an excellent article from the Alliance for Childhood concerning the critical importance of play in every child’s live. We know you’ll find it interesting and full of valuable ideas. Rich and Jo High School Senior Reunion at The AcornPosted in Acorn News on March 26, 2010 by Jo Saturday Afternoon, May 1st, 2010, 1:00 - 3:00 P.M. All high school seniors who attended The Acorn for preschool and/or kindergarten are invited to a reunion at the school! Please come and share memories, photos, and future plans! Students and parents are invited. Light snacks and beverages will be served. RSVP to Rich or Jo, 826-8804, or e-mail This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Tour for Prospective ParentsPosted in Acorn News on March 25, 2010 by Jo Rich Lange, director, will host a tour of the school on Saturday, May 1st, 2010, at 10:00 a.m. for parents interested in enrolling their children. Parents will see the classrooms, as well as hear an in-depth description of the philosophy of the school and the developmental approach to learning. The tour takes approximately 1 1/2 hrs. and is for adults only. Parents must attend a tour in order to be eligible to enroll their child. Please give us a call if you are interested in attending. Thanks! 30th Anniversary Celebration and Fundraiser! A Party to Remember!Posted in Acorn News on March 10, 2010 by Jo WHAT A FUN EVENING FOR EVERYONE at this year’s 30th Anniversary Celebration and Fundraiser! The San Antonio Country Club played the perfect host to a wonderful event. We had a fine variety of hors d’oeuvres, delicious desserts, and an excellent selection of wines to sample. The music of Bepko, Fletcher, Santos and Rose was great for listening and dancing! It was a special treat to see so many Acorn graduates and alumni families! We enjoyed reminiscing as we looked through photo albums and loved watching 30 years of Acorn children on the big 8’ screen – that same DVD is on sale in the office for $10. More than 265 people were in attendance -what great participation! With your devoted hard work, you all helped us raise almost $30,000 from the silent auction, and our Second Chance table brought in over $1300. That is really terrific! From the bottom of our hearts, we thank all of you that worked so hard to make this such a big success. We are so glad that most of our current families, many grandparents, alumni, graduates, and a lot of next year’s new families were able to come!
TOP WINNERS!!!!
SILENT AUCTION!
CLASS PROJECTS! If you or a friend of yours who attended were the high bidder on any item that you did not pick up at the party, or if anyone you sold a ticket to won a prize, please come in to the office as soon as possible to pay for and claim your item. Thanks! (We have a number of items that arrived late or received no bid – information about these is coming after Spring Break!) Also, if you have any outstanding green cards or paperwork regarding the fundraiser, please return it to the office, so we can organize everything for next year. Thanks!
ACORN PARENTS ARE TERRIFIC! We are very grateful to so many people who put in a lot of effort on our fundraiser: Amanda King, Shawne Zakaria, Jean Hanor, Jill Raike, Blyth Treuhaft, Melanie Adams, Burgin Lambrecht, Jamaica Saporsky, Kim Kacprowicz, Riley Forner, Jason Burge, Elena Osegueara, and Amy White were all the coordinators of our prize acquirers for the various prize categories. Jamaica Saporsky, Kim Kacprowicz, Sarah Harding, and Kim Grossett offered valuable support in the office for our final verifying and organizing prizes and auction items. Elizabeth Tichy added her own sparkle to the silent auction, as well as the lovely flowers for the tables. Stephanie Alvheim and Anne Krause organized and manned our second chance drawing. Cristiana Jacobs and her Umami Paper designed and printed our tickets, and Fasclampitt Paper Store provided discounted paper. Kelly Goff created the attractive passports. Magda Strash hosted our kickoff coffee. We thank all of the parents who spent many hours Saturday helping to transport everything over to the San Antonio Country Club, setting up and organizing the silent auction, as well as those that worked during the party and helpers who boxed up everything and transported it back to school: Matt West, Brad Sharpe, Jill Fleuriet, Ray Lopez, Riley Forner, Dana Hamilton, Rakel Lunbery, Diana Hard, Kristina Savona, Elizabeth and Bill Tichy, Roxanne and Tim Brown, Josh Rivas, Melanie and Scott Teer, Jean Hanor, Jess Lundgren, Kimi Lasswell, Amanda Sylvie, Joy Connell, John White, Eric Jarzombek, Kelly Goff, Anne Krause, Stephanie Alvheim, Natalie Zavala, Heidi and Ryan Hodge, Rebecca Andujar, Cindy Hinds, Jackie Belcher, Kim Grossett, Jo, Kitty and Rich. They all worked so hard and with the help of many others did a magnificent job for The Acorn! Thank you all so much for all of your hard work in making the fundraiser such a huge success!
In addition to those mentioned above, we send heartfelt Acorn thanks to: We thank Amy Corbyn of A&E Photography, who donated her time to photograph the evening. You can view them and place orders at aandephotography.com . Click Acorn photos, and log in with the password talloaks In an effort to recognize so many wonderful parents, grandparents, and teachers that were extra helpful, we undoubtedly have not included everyone we should have and we apologize. Truly, Acorn parents really are the greatest! Thank you for all you do to support The Acorn; we couldn’t continue to thrive without you! We certainly appreciate all of the businesses who donated prizes. We hope that you will patronize them and mention your thanks for their helping The Acorn. Please collect your prizes and auction items as soon as possible. Any prizes not collected by April 20th become the property of The Acorn. (We really don’t want the prizes; we just want the room in the office and want to make sure they are delivered soon!) Also, some prizes are dated tickets or have expiration dates, and we want you to have them in time to use them. So please pick up your prizes and those of your family and friends this week. In addition, if you have any outstanding green prize cards, please turn them in to the office. If you have any suggestions for improvements for next year’s event, please let us know right away while it’s fresh in your minds. Thanks again for such a fun and successful Fundraiser, and for bidding so generously to help The Acorn. Rich and Jo |

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