The 11th Annual Oyster Roast & Silent Auction is days away!

Thanksgiving Feast

The week of Nov. 6th starts the next 8-week session for our extracurricular classes. This session offers Music with William where students will learn and play music (Beatles themed!) and Elite Karate where students will focus on discipline, confidence, and self-defense. Notify the office if you would like to sign-up your child!

November 2017

H A R M O N Y S C H O O L

Upcoming After-school Extracurricular Classes

Tuesday, Nov. 21st - All families are invited to come together for a Thanksgiving Feast! Please arrive at 11:00 am with a dish (and serving utensil). Harmony will pro-vide the drinks as well as plates, napkins, and utensils. Closer to the event we will post sign-up sheets for main dishes, desserts, etc. Also bring some chairs and blankets for seating!

Publix Donations Keep using your Publix keychain to earn $ for Harmony! Last quarter we were earned $89.69! Need a keychain? Stop by the office!

Cookie Donations

Your child’s weekly $.25 cookie donation goes towards a good cause! The students decided to send their first cookie fund dona-tion of the year to Heart to Heart International for hurricane relief to Puerto Rico in the amount of $70.

Handprints Newsletter

A HUGE thank you to all of our Sponsors

This Saturday is the big day!We are so excited to listen to awesome music, eat delicious oysters, and raise lots of mon-ey for our school. We are also ecstatic to unveil the plans for the new preschool! You have until this Friday 11/3 to turn in your ticket money to the office. Any unsold tickets MUST be returned PRIOR to 11/3 or

you will be responsible for the cost. Here are just a few things to look forward to the night of the event! -Wine & Spirits Raffle -Amazing Silent Auction! -Music by Mustache Brothers, Pharaohs in Space, & our very own William Busbee -Chili Cook-Off -Beer & Wine

-Fire display -Event T-shirts by Marius Val-des -African drumming by the Next Door Drummers -Massage chairs by Massage Station

THANK YOU to eve-ryone that helped for our Parent/Staff work-day! Our school de-pends on the love and sacrifice of our fami-lies. It’s such a bless-ing to see our commu-nity working together!

Preschool & Kindergarten

Above: Students in Debbie’s class explore the activities at EdVenture during their field trip last month. Below: Heather’s class learns about the body from Stuffie at EdVenture.

Above: Students in Heather’s class carve a scary pumpkin!

By now you’re probably hear-ing your child sing songs about the body, telling you the leg bone is connected to the knee or some other fun facts they are learning during the Body Unit of study. In Octo-ber they went to EdVenture and explored the organs of the body with Stuffie. Lessons about the body continue to be integrated into circle time and student even had a guest speaker, Annabelle’s mom Ra-chel Taylor! She is a massage therapist and spoke with both classes about muscles in the body. Thank you Rachel! Next month’s field trip is scheduled for Sesquicentennial State Park. This field trip is simply to let kids explore na-ture and enjoy the beautiful fall weather.

What students are learning...

Students have been enjoying the cooler autumn weather out on the playground. It helps to dress children in layers and please have a warm jacket. They spend a lot of much-needed time out-doors! There are too many adorable pictures to choose from... Click on the picture for a musical slideshow!

Click on the picture for some more extreme cuteness.

Below: William captures Molly’s intense observation of a grasshopper. Harmony kids LOVE bugs.

Below: Every Friday is Music Friday where students get to practice different instruments as they learn rhythm and new songs.

Cal: “riding in the subway in Atlanta” Jude: ”loving my sister”

Season of thanks! What are you thankful for?...

Bennett: “my cat”

Marley: “sharing toys”

Sofia: “my friends”

Joaquin: “the office” (this one gets a gold star) Eva: “animals and my

friend Elena”

Ariel: “people’s parents” India: “life” Nigel: “this school” Susie: “my friends” Evan: “the food on my plate everyday”

Lucia: “loving kisses” Annabelle: “Thanksgiving and going to Susan and David’s house”

Vivian: “when my mom gives me candy” Gavin: “helping my mom”

Isaac: “bumblebees” Tyler: “monster trucks”

Dawsyn: “my family” Maya: “having friends & family”

Harmony Elementary

Pictures are worth a thousand words….

Elder Elementary students are reading My Side of the Mountain. As part of the reading experience Jennifer teach-es them outdoor survival skills as a way to relate to the character in the story. Nigel makes a deer tallow can-dle in a shell and Dawsyn cooks her breakfast on a hobo stove.

Above: Weekly Zumba (under the Peace Day

Above: The EarlyAct Club holds one of their bi-weekly meetings to discuss their next project—creating a Labyrinth for mindfulness and meditation in the side yard. Below: Students in the club work on making plarn for their other project—Operation Bedroll, which uses recycled grocery bags to create bed rolls for the homeless.

Max, Haydn, Bryce (above) and Parker (below) work on journals about Halloween.

Above: Students take a moment from the ballet performance to pose. What a great picture! Below: Never a dull moment with the first graders!

Bryce shows the class where the rain was coming in from that day.

Elementary Highlights

The first graders explored Goat Dad-dy’s Farm. They retrieved eggs from the chicken coop, watched them milk the goats, and learned about the cir-cle of life with turkeys and pigs. They saw goats, pigs, horses, and turkeys, just to name a few. On a hike through the woods they looked for hidden tokens. Back at school they got to eat goat cheese and drink goat’s milk!

Susie (above) checks out some of the birds in the poultry barn. Ayden (below) picks out his favor-ite art piece in the Art Exhibit at the State Fair.

Above and right : Elders enjoy the Renais-sance Faire in North Carolina.

Field trips are an important part of the Elementary curriculum. It gives students the opportunity to learn hands-on through experiential learn-ing….and it’s FUN! Field trips al-ways involve journaling about the experiences after they return back to the classroom.

All of the Elementary students went to Clinton Sease Farm to enjoy the autumn weather and navigate their way through the corn maze.

October was a busy month for field trips!...

N O V E M B E R B I R T H D A Y S

C A L E N D A R - N O V E M B E R E V E N T S

Helen joined our aftercare team late October. She has many years of experience in child-care and has 3 children of her own. The students have already warmed up to her as she set-tles into the Harmony life. We are so thankful she has joined the Harmony family. Please help us welcome Helen!!

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

1 Elementary FT - Farmer’s Market

2

3 Kindergarten Field Trip

4

Oyster

Roast

6 - 10pm

Daylight sav-ings ends

5 Oyster Roast Clean-Up -volunteers Appreciated

6

7 William’s Music I

8 Elementary FT - Farmer’s Market

9 William’s Music II

10 Kindergarten Field Trip

Karate

11 Veteran’s Day

12

13 EARLY ACT

14 Parent-Teacher Conferences Start (thru 12/7) William’s Music I

15 Debbie/William’s FT Sesqui Park Elementary FT - Farmer’s Market

16

Heather’s FT Sesqui Park William’s Music II

17 Kindergarten Field Trip

Karate

18 Kaylynn’s Wedding!

19 20 21 Thanksgiving Feast 11am -all Parents in-vited

22 Thanksgiving Break - No School

23 Happy Thanks-giving! - No School

24 Thanksgiving Break - No School

25

26 27 EARLY ACT

28 William’s Music I

29 30 Elementary FT to Nutcracker ballet William’s Music II

Click on each picture for slide shows of some scary, wacky, and magical kids!

Helen Benthall Afterschool teacher

11/8 Stella

11/20 Joaquin

11/21 Livvy

11/1 Bennett

11/3 CA

11/4 Marley Slideshow #2

Slideshow #1