After weeks of preparation, annual upkeep, painting, home visits, and orientation, The Acorn kicked off the school year with visits throughout the day for students new to The Acorn.  It is delightful to hear all the happy sounds throughout the classrooms!  We look forward to a great school year.  Classes start Tuesday, Sept. 7th.  Have a good Labor Day weekend.

September tuition and annual fees for the 2010-11 school year is due by July 15th.  Thanks!

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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!!!!

The Acorn was voted Best Preschool in San Antonio for 2009, and this year's nominations are open until June 17th.  Click  For preschool
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Inside this Newsletter
Thanks You’s; Mother’s Days
Brick Walkway
Return Prize Cards to Office

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!
Day Time Class
Mon., 5/3 2:15 3 Day PM
Tues., 5/4 2:15 4 Day PM
Wed., 5/5 9:00 5 Day AM
Wed., 5/5 11:30 Kindergarten
Th., 5/6 9:00 2 Day AM
Th., 5/6 2:15 5 Year
Fri, 5/7 9:00 3 Day AM

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 baby chicks are scheduled to hatch out on Mon. and Tues., April 19th and 20th, Fiesta week!

 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
 
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!

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

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

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!