26-27 After School Academy

Sponsor/Advisor:  Chase -  lchase@harmonytx.org

Grade Level Requirements:  K-3   

Meetings:  Monday

Purpose/Description:   LEGO Club encourages children to learn while having fun!  Creativity, problem solving, and teamwork are some of the skills that "playing" with LEGOS can teach children.    

Cost:  $100/semester

Time:  3:30-4:30

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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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Sponsor/Advisor:  Mrs. Nonino

Grade Level Requirements:  3-6    

Meetings:  Monday

Purpose/Description:    Join us for a fun and hands-on Arts & Crafts workshop where students in grades 3–6 can explore their creativity! Children will work on age-appropriate projects using different materials and techniques to express themselves through art. It's a great way to build fine motor skills, boost confidence, and have fun making something unique!

Cost:  $100/semester

Time:  3:30-4:30

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Sponsor/Advisor:  Towle - stowle@harmonytx.org

Grade Level Requirements:  K-2    

Meetings:  Monday

Purpose/Description:    Students will listen to a read aloud. They will then complete a little craft about the read aloud. We will end with them reading their own book.  

Cost:  $100/semester

Time:  3:30-4:30

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Sponsor/Advisor:  Atchison - katchison@harmonytx.org

Grade Level Requirements:  5-6  

Meetings:  Monday

Purpose/Description:   Imagine a trivia club dedicated to the wonders of words and the intricate art of the dictionary. This isn't your average friendly quiz; it's a deep dive into the fascinating world of language and fact-based knowledge, where your competitive spirit will be rewarded!

Cost:  $100/semester

Time:  3:30-4:30

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Sponsor/Advisor:  Ibarra - mibarra@harmonytx.org

Grade Level Requirements:  K-3  

Meetings:  Tuesday

Purpose/Description:    This club aims to provide a platform to students for the development of communication skills to enhance students' language knowledge other than English, to help them to gain language skills through different activities.  

Cost:  $100/semester

Time:  3:30-4:30

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Sponsor/Advisor:  Mrs. Gonzalez

Grade Level Requirements:  4th-6th    

Meetings:  Tuesday

Purpose/Description:   

Yearbook Club – Lights, Camera, Yearbook!
This year, Yearbook Club members will step into the spotlight to help tell the story of our school year. Students will learn photography skills using professional cameras, explore Canva for creative design, and work as a team to build and design the yearbook. Because they may visit classrooms during the day to capture moments, members must keep good grades and show responsibility.

🌟 From snapping photos to designing pages, they’ll play a starring role in making memories last!

Cost:  $100/semester

Time:  3:30-4:30

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Sponsor/Advisor:  Mrs. Gonzalez

Grade Level Requirements:  2nd-6th grade    

Meetings:  Thursday

Purpose/Description:    

What You’ll Learn & Do:

🌱 Plant Care – Learn how to nurture flowers, herbs, and garden plants.

🌼 School Beautification – Help maintain and brighten our school’s flowerbeds and garden spaces.

♻️ Eco-Friendly DIY Projects – Turn ordinary items into creative garden decorations, such as tire planters, recycled wind chimes, and painted clay pots.

Garden Club is a fun and hands-on way for students to learn responsibility, teamwork, and creativity while making our school a more beautiful place.

Cost:  $100/semester

Time:  3:30-4:30

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Sponsor/Advisor:   Mrs. Yarborough

Grade Level Requirements:  3rd-5th    

Meetings:  Tuesday

Purpose/Description:    Robotics for Beginners-VEX Go helps students learn STEM fundamentals through fun hands-on activities using VEX Go building kits and labs. Kids explore coding and building in a creative and easy way. Everyone is encouraged to join, work together, and use their imagination to complete challenges.

Cost:  $100/semester

Time:  3:30-4:30

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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.  Students will be learning how to play keyboard (piano), recorder, general musical concepts.

**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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Sponsor/Advisor:   Mr. Sutton

Grade Level Requirements:  2-6  

Meetings:  Monday

Purpose/Description:   Chess Puzzle club's purpose is to provide a space for students to play chess, learn, and connect with others. They will be provided opportunities to improve chess skills through practice, analysis of games, and learning from others for fun or to prepare for UIL.

**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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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.  Students will be able to participate in a campus spelling bee and may advance to regionals.  A spelling bee is a competition in which contestants are asked to spell a broad selection of words, usually with a varying degree of difficulty. To compete, contestants must memorize the spellings of words as written in dictionaries, and recite them accordingly.

**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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Sponsor/Advisor:   Mrs. Tongi

Grade Level Requirements:  1-3    

Meetings:  Tuesday

Purpose/Description:     Students will listen to a read aloud. They will then retell the story by acting it out.

**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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Sponsor/Advisor:   Mrs. Tongi

Grade Level Requirements:  1st-2nd Grade   

Meetings:  Thursday

Purpose/Description:   We will focus on improving students' writing skills.  

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

The contest is designed to promote creativity in an academic format and to encourage writing skills at an early grade level. Through preparation for the contest, students in second grade will be able to evaluate their own writing and the writing of others.

Contestants will be given a prompt with several captioned pictures. From these pictures, the students will create an original story based on their selections in 30 minutes. The stories must contain at least one of the pictured items, but it is not required that all items on the page be included.

Cost:  $100/semester

Time:  3:30-4:30

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Sponsor/Advisor:  Ms. Abde

Grade Level Requirements:  Pk-6

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.Also, It's a program of  coding by using a game-based, text-based approach. It offers a variety of courses, from introductory block-based coding for younger children to more advanced text-based languages for older students. The platform aims to make learning to code fun and engaging, while also developing computational thinking, problem-solving, and creating games.

Cost:  $100/semester

Time:  3:30-4:30

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Sponsor/Advisor:  Mamatnazarova

Grade Level Requirements:  K-5

Meetings:  Tuesday

Purpose/Description:   LEGO Club is a fun and engaging after-school program where K–5 students explore their creativity and problem-solving skills through hands-on building activities. Each week, students will tackle new challenges, from themed builds  to free-building sessions that let their imaginations run wild.
Through teamwork, storytelling, and design, kids will strengthen their fine motor skills, practice cooperation, and express their unique ideas — all while having a blast with LEGO bricks!

 Cost:  $100/semester

Time:  3:30-4:30

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Sponsor/Advisor:  Gregory

Grade Level Requirements:  4th-6th

Meetings:  Thursday

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.  The United States Geography Championships, often abbreviated as USGC, formerly known as the United States Geography Olympiad, is a nationwide academic geography competition for primary and secondary school students in the United States. It was introduced during the 2012-2013 school year. It currently consists of approximately 105 National Qualifying Exam sites held around the United States and its territories, along with a certain number of international schools,

Cost:  $100/semester

Time:  3:30-4:30

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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 

Cost:  $100 per semester

Advisors:  Bozica and Evans

Description:  This competition team is made up of members that are hand selected by the coaches*. 

*Note: This team is invitation only. Tryouts are coming soon!

Practice Days:  Tuesday 

Cost:  $100 per semester

Sponsor/Advisor:   Mrs. Chester

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. 

Sponsor/Advisor:   Shelton and Trejo

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

Meetings:  Monday

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.