Monthly Archives: May 2014

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Welcome New Sisters! (click for current roster)

Merit Badge Awardees (click for latest awards)

My featured Merit Badge Awardee of the Week is … Nancy Boyd!!!

Nancy Boyd (#2508) has received a certificate of achievement in Cleaning Up for earning a Beginner Level Recycling Merit Badge!

“I researched recycling in my area. This research checked into what my residential garbage hauler would and wouldn’t take. It also included what other opportunities were available for recycling in the Columbus, Ohio, area.

There are a lot of places to recycle items. Even if one place doesn’t accept an item, there is another place that will. There is even going to be an event offered through www.swaco.org and Ohio Health, in partnership with the DEA, that will be a prescription drug take-back day on April 26, 2014, to dispose of unused, old, or unwanted prescription drugs to get them out of the house.”

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Spring Trees

I’m often curious what my girls think of each season. Even more so, I’ve wondered how many details they observe and notice. So, I decided to turn it into a craft project for their entire class. Buttons are always a good starting place. Stella’s kindergarten class was sure that the trees this time of year are all very pink, purple, white, and green, it being spring and all.

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First, I traced their arms and hands. The students agreed the outlines make perfect tree trunks with branches for spring blossoms.

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All 16 of them took a wee bit of time to cut out.

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Each child’s interpretation of spring blossoms on a tree was unique. And obviously they’d noticed that some of the blossoms are set free by the wind.