International Peace Day

Oyster Roast Updates & DSS Grant

Our Spanish and Soccer Shots after-

school programs are up and running!

We are looking to still add some addi-

tional programs throughout the

year. Stay tuned for more

details!

Ideas? Feel free to let the of-

fice know!

October 2016

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

Aftercare Extra-Curricular activities - Off to a great start!

Hopefully you’ve already heard the great news about Harmony receiving an additional DSS grant of

$18,360! This brings us one step closer to our goal of $150,000. There currently aren’t any additional

updates with the renovation project or sites to relocate the school. As soon as we know more, you’ll be

notified. Go to GoFundMe.com/harmonyflood to see how far we’ve come on our goal. This number does

not yet include Oyster Roast funds.

The Oyster Roast is starting to bring in Sponsorships and Silent Auction items! We are up to $3000 in

sponsorships and are excited to announce the Lizards Thicket will be setting up a tent to offer additional

food items for sale. They are donating all of their

food! Don’t forget to sell your tickets!

We had a great turn-out

for our participation in

International Peace Day

on September 21st!

Thank you to everyone

who attended. You can

check out the videos by

clicking on the pictures.

Thank you to everyone

that came out for our

first Family Night Out

at the Wired Goat Café

on 9/20!

Thank you to Dawsyn

for donating her yard

sale money to

Harmony Flood

Relief!

Get out the combs and clean shirts...it’s Picture Day! Elementary and

Debbie/William’s class will have their pictures on Thursday October 13

and Heather’s class have theirs on Friday October 14. Pictures are usu-

ally taken first thing in the morning.

Picture Day

Welcome

New Students!

Preschool:

Molly & Brigit

Elementary:

Nigel & Ariel

Be sure to give

Click the picture

to see a video!

Thank you to Amelia’s

mom, Sarah, for donat-

ing flowers for a

lesson on flower

arrangements!

Handprints Newsletter

What are the objectives of the Stay Awake Class

at Harmony School ?

A typical day of Stay Awake-

First Children come into class and we have circle

time. During circle time we sing songs about our unit

study, and then directions are given to the students about each centers objectives. The children

rotate among 5 to 6 centers during Stay Awake. The centers consist of a Science, Language,

Math, Geography, Creative Play, and Art.

This month in Science during Stay Awake we will be learning about the bones in our body and

our organs in our body. In Geography we will be learning about North America. Our weekly

sounds will be A, C, H, and G for Language. In Math, continue working on shapes, numbers,

greater than and less than, and teen numbers. Creative Play and Art will vary from day to day.

Every Friday the children play outside and learn an outdoor game.

This month we will concentrate on Kick Ball.

Stay Awake Group

Harmony Preschool & Kindergarten

Margot and Eva relax while

they read

Waylon works on some

lessons using rocks during Stay

Awake class

Annabelle practices her

engineering skills

Saam

getting

some

hands-

on

experi-

ence!

Sesquicentennial State Park Field Trip

October’s field trip will take students on a

fun hiking experience through the state

park. Students will learn about the nature

around them and how it relates to their unit

of study about the environment.

The earth is our mother. We must take care of her. The earth is our mother. We must take care of her.

Hey yonna, ho yonna, hey yon, yon Hey yonna, ho yonna, hey yon, yon

Her sacred ground we walk upon, With every step we take. Her sacred ground we walk upon, With every step we take.

Hey yonna, ho yonna, hey yon, yon Hey yonna, ho yonna, hey yon, yon

The earth is our mother. She must take care of us. The earth is our mother. She must take care of us.

Hey yonna, ho yonna, hey yon, yon Hey yonna, ho yonna, hey yon, yon

The earth is our mother.

Learning about the environment...

Elementary stu-

dent, Macy,

brought her pet

rabbit to the Stay-

Awake group to

help students learn

about mammals.

Our study of the environment has

brought about discussions of what the

earth is made of, what it would be like

if there was no sound on the earth, no-

ticing what grows on the earth, what is

alive and not alive, and talking about

the many treasures on our earth

(beautiful flowers, trees, animals, rocks,

insects, etc.) The children have ex-

plored with miniature Earth bowls of

dirt, searched for a special rock to make

a pet rock, had fun pretending to be a

flower seed growing into beautiful

flowers, and made a pretend camera to

take photographs of the Earth.

The Earth is Our Mother

Debbie & William’s class

learn about the environment

with their Earth bowls

Pepper gathers her Earth bowl

in Heather’s class

Lucas heads

to 2nd base

in kickball!

Spiderman is

fast!

This month Elementary students are working on...

Science (Natural History)

Earth's prehistory using Carl

Sagan's Cosmic Calendar at the

park

rock cycle and classification

relative sizes in our solar sys-

tem, and universe

plate tectonics, and

making satellites

Art

Make greeting cards and deco-

rating a rescued chair to sell at

Oyster Roast

enter an Arbor Day contest

through Rich. Co. Soil and Wa-

ter Conservation District,

Create a "performance art"

video for the contest.

ELA

Elders - continuing to work on

proper sentence construction

Younger ones - synonyms, ano-

nyms, homonyms, capitaliza-

tion & punctuation

poetry

Spelling and Vocabulary

reading----in small groups

Math

Elders -Decimals, fractions, and

percents

Younger ones - continuing to

work on addition and multipli-

cation with arrays and distribu-

tive property

Music

continuing to learn and practice

a collection of pieces to sing

with the Philharmonic in Feb

Extra-curricular

Yoga and Spanish on Wednes-

days

Harmony Elementary

Class Elders show off their notes taken dur-

ing a lesson on Zoonosis

Elementary Highlights

Students are going to the Swan Lake ballet on

10/13

During their annual State Fair visit students

will tour the 4H, agriculture and crafts build-

ings

The Renaissance Fair in North Carolina awaits

students on 10/18!

On Halloween students will head to Elmwood

Cemetery for tour with creative writing and

grave rubbings

Apple picking at Sky Top Orchard in Flat

Rock, NC, then cooking up apple oatmeal

and apple sauce for snack through the fall

season!

Annual Elder Project due Oct. 18th

Tour Munson Diamond Dressing Tool

Manufacturing Oct. 25.

Keeley practices her

culinary skills as the students

cook their eggs for snack

Cortney and other students play leaf

Bingo at the Atria Senior Center

Cash acts comfortable

during quiet reading time.

Students dance

and practice crea-

tive writing at the

30th

annual Greek Cul-

ture Festival

2016!

Station #1 Officer SFF Sakou Sanders

shows students how to use a portable mass

spectrometer to identify chemicals found at

a fire.

10/1 Keeley

10/2 Breccan

10/3 Saam

10/4 Anna

10/4 Jacob

10/11 Jata (staff)

10/20 Arav

10/25 Pepper

O C T O B E R B I R T H D A Y S

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

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

3

Discounted Oyster

Roast Ticket $ DUE

in office today! (Price is $35 after

today)

4 5 Elementary Field

Trip - Farmers Mar-

ket @ 3:30

6

7

Kindergarten Field

Trip

10

Metric Week for

Elementary!

11

Debbie/

William’s

Field Trip -

Sesqui park

12 Elementary Field

Trip - Farmers Mar-

ket @ 3:30

Heather’s

Field Trip -

Sesqui park

13

Pictures Elementary &

Debbie and Wil-

liam’s class

Elementary Field

Trip - Swan Lake Ballet

14

Pictures Heather’s class

No Elementary

No Afternoon Kin-

dergarten- early

pick-up @ 12:15

Preschool has nor-mal schedule

17 18 Elementary - Elder

Project Due

Elementary Field

Trip - Renaissance

Festival!

19 Elementary Field

Trip - SC State Fair

- No Afterschool

Spanish today

20 21 Kindergarten

Field Trip

24 25 Elementary F.T.

Tour Munson Dia-

mond Dressing Tool Manufacturing

26 Elementary Field

Trip - Farmers Mar-

ket @ 3:30

27 28 Kindergarten Field

Trip

31

Happy Hallow-

een! Elementary Field

Trip - Elmwood

Cemetery

1 2 3 4

Lizzie Kotouc - Preschool T.A.

Worked at Harmony since: Feb. 2016

Hobbies: Playing and designing

video games, recording on her You-

Tube channel, writing and drawing

Favorite part about working at Har-

mony: Lizzie loves working with the

kids. It gives her the chance to see a

child’s point of view again. They

make her happy!

Lizzie is available for babysitting

on weekends and during holiday

breaks!

Her phone # is 803-403-6491.

On October 31st students can wear

their costumes to school for a fun Hal-

loween Party! We will be asking for a

few parents to sign-up and volunteer to

help provide snacks and/or help with

the party.

PreK/K Halloween Party

September field trip to the

Children’s Theatre.