A favorite for all, on Mud Day we flood the playground and make rivers, dams, and lakes,

create a water slide, blow bubbles, and run through a "car wash".

What a great way to start off our last week of the school year!

All week the children in the classes at The Acorn have enjoyed a very special time with their Moms.

The Mother's Day photo album is available to current and alumni families.

Have a Wonderful Mother's Day Weekend!

Fiesta filled us with glee,

from the top of our confetti-filled hair to the tips of our fancy shoe-clad toes!

King Acorn Bestows Fiesta Fun and Good Wishes upon You!!! Viva!!!!

School will be closed Friday, April 27th, for Battle of Flowers Holiday.

The children and staff alike are overjoyed to welcome our new chicks to the world!

Thanks again the the Anderson family for the donation of our automatic turning incubator.

And as you can see, more have pipped and are hard at work!

Kindergarten Class of 1999-2000

The Acorn invites the graduating class of 2012 to come and share memories, photos, and future plans!

Saturday afternoon, May 5th, 2012, 1:00 - 3:00 P.M.

Students and parents are invited.

Light snacks and beverages will be served.

RSVP to The Acorn 826-8804

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Many parents have continued the spirit of giving into the spring as we work toward our goal of raising $25,000 in donations this school year.  To date we have received $16,108.00 toward our $25,000 Matching Grant with about two months to go in our school year.  We thank all of you who have made donations since the Fundraiser and those of you who “rounded up” as you paid for your silent auction items.  Big Acorn thanks go out to alumni parents Beth and Lamar Smith, Shannon and Martin Burns, and Nancy Norman and Rob Robertson; parents Ann and Rob Flannery, Elizabeth and Bill Tichy, and Aurora and James Nester, plus grandparents Priscilla and John Parsons (Kate Flannery).  We thank the following families for rounding up, some by over a hundred dollars, when paying for their silent auction items: Alvheim, Anderson, Barrera, Burge, Caffrey, Flannery, Garcia, Hale, Hamilton, Hassmann, Jenne, Myers, Nester, Netting, Peveto, Tejeda, Tidwell, and White. Thank you all for your generosity to The Acorn. We truly appreciate all of your support in helping us create a fun, creative, stimulating, developmentally appropriate start to your children’s education here at The Acorn!

Reminder:  Upcoming Holidays
Good Friday, April 6- NO SCHOOL
Fiesta: Friday, April 27 – NO SCHOOL

Upcoming Events:
Thursday, April 5
Kindergarten Amtrak train trip
Monday, April 16
Chicks begin hatching
April 24, 25
Acorn Fiestas - The 5 day and 2 day morning fiesta is Tuesday, 4/24; 4 day pm and 5 yr. class fiesta is Tuesday afternoon, 4/24.  The 3 day am and Kindergarten fiesta is Wednesday morning, 4/25.
Saturday, May 5
Tour for Prospective Parents
Reunion of High School Graduates
Sunday, May 6
Kindergarten Art Show

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!
Day        Time    Class
Mon., 5/7        10:15    3 Day AM
2:15    4 Day PM
Tues., 5/8    10:15     2 Day AM
2:15    5 Yr. Old
Wed., 5/9        11:30    Kindergarten
Th., 5/10        10:00    5 Day AM
Fri, 5/11        2:15    3 Day PM

Note:  Please return all of your green cards that you were given to help obtain prizes, even if they weren’t able to give anything this year.  We’ll need to have them all in order to be organized for next year’s Fundraiser. Thanks!

We have set our eggs this week, so the baby chicks are scheduled to hatch out the week of April 16th.  We thank the Anderson family for their gift of a commercial incubator with an automatic egg turner, so we are taking our hatching into the 21st century!  We are keeping our fingers crossed for a good hatch.

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 bricks each summer so please take this opportunity to be to be included in this Acorn “monument”.  Every Acorn child really should have a brick by which to be remembered.

Rich and Jo

Our next tour of The Acorn for those interested in enrolling their children is Saturday, May 5th, at 10:00 A.M.  Rich Lange, head director, will take you through the classrooms and explain the philosophy of the school.  We recommend you arrive about ten minutes early to park and have time to browse through the rooms before we get started.  It lasts approximately  1 3/4 hours, and is for adults only.  Please give us a call to add your name to the attendance list.