After School Academy 24-25

Harmony School of Excellence-Laredo students working on robotics project

PK-2 Lego Club

Grade Level Requirements: PK-2

Meetings: Tuesday

Purpose/Description: Students will be working together to develop creativity and problem solving skills while working on Lego projects as teams.

Cost: $100/semester

Time: 3:30-4:30

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PK-2 Arts & Crafts

Sponsor/Advisor: Ms. Shahda

Grade Level Requirements: PK-2

Meetings: Tuesday

Purpose/Description: Students will enjoy creating arts & crafts projects together such as: simple games, animal art, nature crafts, recyclable crafts, card making, unique ways to paint, cultural art and more!

Cost: $100/semester

Time: 3:30-4:30

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3-6 Art Club

Sponsor/Advisor: Mrs. Nonino

Grade Level Requirements: 3-6

Meetings: Monday

Purpose/Description: In this club, we will explore a variety of artistic techniques that students can use to express their emotions and moods. We will focus on the power of colors and how they can convey different feelings and sensations. Additionally, we will prioritize recycling by giving new meaning to everyday items that are often discarded, transforming them into meaningful artistic expressions. This approach will not only enrich the students' creative processes but also support environmental sustainability by minimizing waste.

Cost: $100/semester

Time: 3:30-4:30

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K-2 Storybook Club

Sponsor/Advisor: Mrs. Larson

Grade Level Requirements: K-2

Meetings: Monday

Purpose/Description: Students willl narrate, discuss, and reflect on a book that they have all listened to as a group. Through sharing their thinking, they build a richer understanding. Storybook Club intends to promote independent reading among the students and gives the opportunity to present book reviews.

Cost: $100/semester

Time: 3:30-4:30

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4-6 Book Club

Sponsor/Advisor: Mrs. Chase

Grade Level Requirements: 4-6

Meetings: Monday

Purpose/Description: Students will read novels throughout the year and participate in literature circles, as well as completing different types of in-club projects to go along with the novels read.

Cost: $100/semester

Time: 3:30-4:30

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K-2 Spanish Club

Sponsor/Advisor: Mrs. Bolanos

Grade Level Requirements: K-2

Meetings: Monday

Purpose/Description: Students will learn about different themes of their interest like colors, numbers, body parts, family, greetings, animals, food, and more through the use of pictures, games, art and educational videos.

Cost: $100/semester

Time: 3:30-4:30

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3-6 Conversational Spanish

Sponsor/Advisor: Mrs. Ibarra

Grade Level Requirements: 3-6

Meetings: Tuesday

Purpose/Description: Conversational Spanish is a course that will help students to speak Spanish in different setting using basic Spanish conversations and Spanish common phrases.This club will be all about speaking!, students will be interacting with other students and their teacher to gain confidence while they practice. Being conversational in Spanish is all about being confident in speaking.

Cost: $100/semester

Time: 3:30-4:30

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5-6 Yearbook Club

PK-6 Gardening Club

Sponsor/Advisor: Mrs. Gonzalez

Grade Level Requirements: PK-6

Meetings: Thursday

Purpose/Description: In garden club, students will learn about how to care for different kinds of plants. They will also help with maintaining the school flowerbed and garden.

Cost: $100/semester

Time: 3:30-4:30

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2-4 Beginner's Robotics

Sponsor/Advisor: Mrs. Yarborough

Grade Level Requirements: 2-4

Meetings: Tuesday

Purpose/Description: Students explore engineering fundamentals by building and controlling robots to complete a game-based challenge. Students will step into the world of science, acquiring knowledge and skills that will be useful and applicable beyond the classroom.

Cost: $100/semester

Time: 3:30-4:30

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PK-2 Soccer Club

3-6 Soccer Club

Sponsor/Advisor: Mr. Meza

Grade Level Requirements: 3-6

Meetings: Monday

Cost: $100/semester

Time: 3:30-4:30

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K-6 Esports

Sponsor/Advisor: Ms. Montgomery

Grade Level Requirements: 3-6

Meetings: Tuesday

Purpose/Description: Gaming club is an opportunity for students to socialize and have fun together based on their hobby of playing video games. Students will have an opportunity to play multi and single player games and spend time discussing gaming strategies and preferences.

Cost: $100/semester

Time: 3:30-4:30

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2-6 Cooking Club

2-5 Music Club (UIL Music Memory)

Sponsor/Advisor: Mrs. Park

Grade Level Requirements: 2-5

Meetings: Monday

Purpose/Description: Music club will be a community for individuals to share their interests of music and to develop their skills.

**After the first semester, some students from this club will be selected to compete in the Spring Music Memory UIL meet.

The Music Memory UIL program is designed to cultivate an appreciation and understanding of classical music among students. Participants will have the opportunity to listen to and learn about a variety of musical compositions, thereby enhancing their listening skills, memory, and critical thinking. This program not only fosters a lifelong love for music but also contributes significantly to students' overall academic and personal development.

Cost: $100/semester

Time: 3:30-4:30

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2-6 Chess Club (UIL Chess Puzzle)

Sponsor/Advisor: Mr. Sutton

Grade Level Requirements: 2-6

Meetings: Monday

Purpose/Description: A gathering of individuals who come together to play and learn the game of chess, offering a space for casual and competitive play.

**After the first semester, some students from this club will be selected to compete in the Spring Chess Puzzle UIL meet.

Cost: $100/semester

Time: 3:30-4:30

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3-6 Spelling (UIL Spelling)

Sponsor/Advisor: Mrs. Lomax

Grade Level Requirements: 3-6

Meetings: Tuesday

Purpose/Description: We will focus on improving students' spelling skills and vocabulary through engaging and fun activities.

**After the first semester, some students from this club will be selected to compete in the Spelling UIL meet.

Cost: $100/semester

Time: 3:30-4:30

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2-3 Storytelling (UIL Storytelling)

Sponsor/Advisor: Mrs. Tongi

Grade Level Requirements: 2-3

Meetings: Tuesday

Purpose/Description: We will focus on improving students' listening, thinking, and speaking skills.

**After the first semester, some students from this club will be selected to compete in the Storytelling UIL meet.

The UIL Storytelling competition, primarily focused on grades 2 and 3, is an event where students demonstrate their listening, thinking, and speaking skills by retelling a story they have heard once, in their own words, before a judge or judges.

Cost: $100/semester

Time: 3:30-4:30

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Academic Competitions

Geography Bee

Sponsor/Advisor: Ms. Atchison

Grade Level Requirements: 4th-6th

Meetings: Monday

Purpose/Description: The National Geography Bee is a quiz competition for individual students, testing knowledge of the political, human, cultural, and physical geography of all parts of the world.

Cost: $100/semester

Time: 3:30-4:30

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Math Kangaroo

Spring Semester UIL Ready Writing 3rd - 6th Grade

Spring Semester UIL Creative Writing 2nd Grade

Spring Semester UIL Dictionary Skills 5th-6th Grade

Spring Semester UIL Listening Skills 5th-6th Grade

Spring Semester UIL Number Sense 4th-6th Grade

Spring Semester UIL Social Studies 5th-6th Grade

VEX Robotics Competition Team

Advisors: Mr. Bozica and Mrs. Shelton

Description: This competition team is made up of members that are hand selected by the coaches*. In the VEX IQ Competition Team students are tasked with designing, building and driving a robot to play with other teams in a game-based engineering challenge. STEM concepts are put to the test as students learn lifelong skills in teamwork, leadership, communications, and more as they compete in this years Vex IQ Challenge: Rapid Relay. *Note: This team is invitation only.

Practice Days: Tuesday and Thursday

Cost: $100 per semester

Codey Monkey (3-6)

Sponsor/Advisor: Ms. Abde

Grade Level Requirements: 4th-6th

Meetings: Monday

Purpose/Description: CodeMonkey is a fun and educational game-based environment where kids learn to code without any prior experience. After completing CodeMonkey's award-winning coding courses, kids will be able to navigate through the programming world with a sense of confidence.

Cost: $100/semester

Time: 3:30-4:30

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Code Monkey (K-2)

Sponsor/Advisor: Mrs. Aydin

Grade Level Requirements: 4th-6th

Meetings: Monday

Cost: $100/semester

Time: 3:30-4:30

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First Lego League Explore 2-4

Sponsor/Advisor: Mrs. Moss & Ms. MOntero

Grade Level Requirements: 2nd -4th

Meetings: Thursday

Purpose/Description: FIRST LEGO League guides youth through STEM learning and exploration at an early age. From Discover, to Explore and then to Challenge, students will understand the basics of STEM and apply their skills in an exciting competition while gaining productive learning habits, confidence, and teamwork skills along the way.

In Explore, teams of students ages 6-10 focus on the fundamentals of engineering as they explore real-world problems, learn to design, and code and create unique solutions made with LEGO bricks and powered by LEGO^® Education SPIKE^TM Essential.

Cost: $100/semester

Time: 3:30-4:30

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Student Organizations

STUCO (Student Council)
NEHS (National Elementary Honor's Society)

STUCO (Student Council)

Sponsor/Advisor: Mrs. Chester and Ms. Tongi

Requirements: Students are selected by a committee to join Student Council.

Meetings: Thursday

Grade Level:

Purpose: The purpose of the organization is to create a greater sense of responsibility within the student body; to strive for better student/faculty relationships; to promote unification of the student body and better representation of its ideas to the faculty and administration; to promote a positive attitude in the advancement of leadership and loyalty; to promote spirit in the school activities; as well as to uphold traditions and to set standards for generations of Harmony students to come. The objective of the Student Council is to provide a service organization doing various activities within the community throughout the year while developing student leaders.

NEHS (National Elementary Honor's Society)

Sponsor/Advisor: Mrs. Gregory and Ms. Tongi

Requirements: Students are selected by a committee to join NEHS.

Meetings: Thursday

Grade Level: 4th-6th

Purpose: The National Elementary Honor Society (NEHS) was established in 2008 by the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP) in partnership with the National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP). NEHS recognizes students in both public and nonpublic elementary schools for their outstanding academic achievement and demonstrated personal responsibility. Through NEHS, students provide meaningful service to the school and community and develop essential leadership skills. NEHS supports these purposes by strengthening the lives of our nation’s elementary students and the schools in which they are enrolled.