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Living Wetlands Week 4

March 27, 2017 - Earth Friends, Preschool

Today was the first day of spring!  There was also still some snow on the ground from the snow storm that hit our area last week.  Because of the snow… Read more »

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Forest Explorers Week 5

October 29, 2016 - Earth Friends

This week Ms. Colleen subbed for Ms. Paula and showed us lots of awesome things! We had an opening circle and introduced ourselves to Ms. Colleen before heading to the… Read more »

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