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I received notification a couple of days ago that our Walking Around the World Donor's Choose grant proposal was funded. Click to read about it!
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 How to Make a Snowflake
We encouraged our own Imelda to share her secret for making beautiful hanging snowflakes. Click to View |
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Microwave Polenta di Patate
Click to Watch the Old Fashioned Way
(Windows Media Player)
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1 Quart Water (Salt to Taste)
1 1/2 Cups Cornmeal
1 Cup Instant Potatoes
optional 1/4 lb Salt Pork (ground or chopped fine) OR Salamini if desired
1/2 Stick Butter
1/4 Cup Extra Virgin Olive Oil
1 Medium Onion
1 Quart Mixing Bowl 3/4 Filled with cheese
(Enough for 4 Good Eaters) |
- Place water, cornmeal and instant polanta in large microwaveable mixing bowl and stir well.
- Cover with Saran Wrap.
- Microwave on high for 5 minutes.
- Remove, stir well and repeat for 5 minutes.
- Remove, stir and cook 5 more minutes.
- After the third time, add fried butter, onions, and oil.
- Add salt porkor salamini - optional.
- Mix in well then add cheese and mix again
- Microwave for 2-5 minutes until cheese melts.
Serve - Buon Apetito
NOTE: If you double the recipe, you must also double the time. |
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| Dear Parents and Friends,
Welcome to the December 2007 Grandview Library Newsletter.
I am writing this newsletter on New Year's Day -- a good time to look back before plunging into the new year.
Kindergarten & First Grades
When we return to school tomorrow, we will prepare our mural for the Octopus Play. Your children's sea creature drawings will become a backdrop.
The 1st and 2nd graders will return to a heart-warming book called The Grandpa Tree by Mike Donahue. We'll talk about the word metaphor . How is the Grandpa Tree used as a metaphor for life cyles of all living things?
Our next unit of study will focus on the Polar Bear. We'll start with fiction and then move to non-fiction.
Second & Third Grades
Before our holiday break, the 2nd grades were learning about global warming. We will complete the book Why Are the Ice Caps Melting?
by Anne F. Rockwell. The children will write reflections about ecology and balance considering the books we've read over the past few weeks.
The 3rd graders will complete their Economics Unit. We've divided into groups of three. Each group will report on one of nine books which cover topics such as supply & demand, earning money, spending money etc. We'll set up a mini-news room complete with news desks and microphones for the reporting experience.
We will begin Polar Bear Research following our Martin Luther King, Jr. celebration. The 2nd and 3rd grades will listen to the following books.
I am in the midst of building a Polar Bear Project Organizer.
Martin Luther King, Jr. ~ All Grades
In January, all grades will celebrate the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. with story, song, and Reader's Theater. Click here to visit our Reader's Theater Plays - scroll to view each grade level.
Keep warm, enjoy some hot cocoa and a good book with your children on these cold winter nights.
Warmly,
Mrs. Chauncey |
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