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    How's the weather where you are?

    Not Hot Enough! Central Wisconsin needs some heat! It's too cool and yes we need rain but I need some sun. I've got a big birthday party bash on Thursday and I need some sunny warm weather so 20+ teenagers can swim and have a bomb fire!:mad:
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    New Members: Please Post and Introduce Yourself

    Hello! Hi! I'm 53 but I work with youth through school (teaching art)and a State 4-H Arts Camp Program. My three children (not children any longer) also have been brought up watching the Muppet Program and Muppet Movies. My daughter had seen a theater production or an actor that plays the...
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    Teaching With Muppets

    Thanks Thanks for the information about Jim Henson. I'll have to check that out! Thanks again!:)
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    Teaching With Muppets

    Your questions are very thought provoking! Great questions help me think on a higher level. So keep asking those in depth questions that make people open to ideas they might of never thought to pursue.
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    How's the weather where you are?

    Hot and humid with a chance for thunder storms tonight.
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    New Members: Please Post and Introduce Yourself

    Thanks for the info Thanks so much for the information. I just finished teaching another mini course about Jim Henson and the Muppets. I can't believe that there are so many youth that have no idea who the Muppets are and how they were created. Most of these children are in third grade and...
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    Teaching With Muppets

    It's a small world after all! I did get the information to Jane and Heather Henson. Someone in the community had read about my art lessons and his daughter is a friend with Jim Henson's wife and daughter. The man gave me his daughters email address and I sent her all the news articles and the...
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    Teaching With Muppets

    Teaching with the Muppets Thanks so much for the You Tube connection. This will be great to share with my art students. In the past 9 months I've introduced Jim Henson and the Muppets to over 200 youth at 4-H Arts Camp in Wis. Dells and at Immanuel Lutheran School in Marshfield WI. 161...
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    Teaching With Muppets

    Muppet Documentory? :) Do you know if there is a documentary on Jim Henson and the Muppets? I'd love to find a documentary and show it to my art students. I'm hoping to offer a puppet session at this year 4-H Arts Camp.
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    How's the weather where you are?

    Northern Wisconsin is cool and sunny!
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    New Members: Please Post and Introduce Yourself

    Muppet Forum :) I must say that I've enjoyed learning more about the Muppets and related subject information. I only wish I found this foruma long ago. It could of helped me teach my students even more about Jim Henson and the Muppets.
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    New Members: Please Post and Introduce Yourself

    Hello there! I'm new to the forum but a long time fan Jim Henson and the Muppets! It's not easy being green!
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    Teaching With Muppets

    Muppets in the classroom My class time is very short and I only teach art twice a week, so i didn't get that indepth with my students. But your questions will help guide me in the future with development of new lesson plans. Some of my students had forgotten existance of the Muppets and...
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    New Members: Please Post and Introduce Yourself

    Hello! Congrats on the baby! I remember walking my my three little childrne across a street or parking lot and telling them "Walka! Walka! Walka! Fossy Bear would say that all the time! Now I'm sharing my love for the Muppets with 51 art students in central Wisconsin. :)
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    Teaching With Muppets

    Muppets in the Class Room :)Jim Henson's dreams live on in through education in the my 2008/09 art classroom and at the 2008 Wisconsin State 4-H Arts Camp held in WI. Dells. Jim and Muppets were great mentors to both the 4-H youth and my art students. Since Kermit was created from recycled...
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