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WELCOME BACK! Some of the many geese landing out at my son's farm yesterday! Hello students.  Welcome back from March break. I miss you all and look forward to reconnecting with you in the next week! Even though some of the things in our world have changed so much in just a few short weeks, nature has kept its beauty - I hope you have a chance to get outside and enjoy some of it during this challenging time.  Sadly for us all, school is one of those things that has changed.  Learning will certainly look different for the next while! However, we will using Google Classroom as a platform to go back to school - from home.  It will take all of us a bit of time to adjust to this change, but I know that we as a class can provide support to each other during this time when concerns about disease spread have closed our schools.  I have every confidence in our ability to face this challenge in o...
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