Dane van Dam, Henry Hughes, Carter LaGuire and Chanhee Park pose with Ms. Lisa to display the first, second and third place winning entries in HH’s 2018 Earth Day Festival, held April 23. The After School Program celebrates Earth Day every year with games that culminate in the traditional poster contest, where everyone votes for the best representation of what Earth Day means to them.
On a beautiful April Thursday a group of the afternoon preschoolers walked down to the big field with Ms. Lisa, to take their snack among the buttercups.
Tyler Trammell, Eva Jane Turner, Lucy Hazlett, Griffin Farrell, Graeme Foster and Nicholas Wade pick buttercups to take home later.
Spring football among the buttercups in the big field: Lisa always asks the mowers to leave the field alone for a couple weeks so we can all enjoy the beautiful color!
Lisa’s friend Grace is nice enough to come out every Spring for a session (or two) of egg dyeing activities for the after school group. Here are a couple pictures from our dye day last week.
Jimmie Davis displays the beautiful results of his egg dyeing skills.
The after school group concentrates on getting just the right amount of dye on those hard-boiled eggs!
Snow on the upper playground Dec. 9, the day after our first snow day of school year 2017-2018.
Haverty Hollow offers morning and afternoon playgroups for the younger set. Ages 3 – 5 will enjoy their choice of activity, from sand play to building play to organized outside and inside games plus free play in our playroom or outside on the multi-level playground.
If you’re interested in an afternoon program, you can sign up for pickup in the Haverty Hollow van from various area preschools.
Morning playgroups are available Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, when we open at 9:15 a.m.
Afternoon Playgroups are available from 12:00-3:00 p.m. Monday – Friday. Please see our registration form for prices.
If you’ve never visited us, please call or stop by to see our original log cabin building situated on four acres of playground, a portion of Nancy Creek and walking trails, just off Northside Parkway and north of West Paces Ferry Road. Please check the Map/Directions page to plan your trip.
The sandbox on Haverty Hollow’s upper playground can be transformative. During free play, the preschoolers often use the shallow pans, plastic food containers and aluminum sieves to pretend-bake cakes or construct complete meals for their fellow “family” members. At activity time, Mr. John demonstrates some of the science behind volcanic action. The children mound the sand, Mr. John mixes the eruption elixir, and the next thing you know, pseudo-lava is bubbling up and over from the mouth of the volcano. Later on in the day, the After School children exercise their imagination by creating intricate forms of tunnels and underground passages. Everyone makes the sandbox their own during a typical day at Haverty Hollow.
Mr. John mixes the magic potion that will erupt the volcano the children have helped construct in the sandbox.
After School children show off their tunnel-building skills during free play.
We have lost our oldest pet at Haverty Hollow.
How many children over the years have heard me tell the story about why ChiChi came to live at Haverty Hollow?How I was at the small pet store located at Ansley Mall (before there were stores like Petco and Petsmart!) and I saw ChiChi for sale. I told the owners that I had raised chinchillas in my classroom when I was a teacher at Trinity School. The owners tried to talk me into buying him but I did not. Two weeks later I was back in the store and ChiChi was still there. He was too cute! I agreed to bring him to Haverty Hollow where he has lived for so many years. I do not remember what year he came and would love feedback from anyone who has memories of seeing ChiChi at Haverty Hollow.
He will certainly be missed!
ChiChi is buried in our Haverty Hollow pet graveyard.
Lisa Haverty
Little ones and older children enjoyed making bunnymobiles as a special holiday activity during Easter Week 2017.
Each school year at Haverty Hollow, children in our After School Enrichment Program join in Friendship Club activities. Grouped by age, the children are engaged in activities designed to promote mutual understanding and respect and build a positive regard for one another and their wider community.
Towards the end of the school year, each Club agrees by voice vote on an activity they believe will serve a larger purpose.
Miss Lisa’s Club, made up of our Spring Quarter third, fourth and fifth graders, planned to donate money raised from a car wash at Haverty Hollow to the Defenders of Wildlife. Check out their Facebook posting of the Club’s letters accompanying their donation to the group. The FC members were able to give more than $100 to the organization that helps animals stay in their wild environments.
Ms. Lisa’s Friendship Club third, fourth and fifth graders raise money to support the Defenders of Wildlife by giving arriving parents’ cars a good wash and rinse on April 20. The Friendship Club raised more than $100 to support the wildlife defense group.
Harrison Leusink and Zara Jenkins display one of the many posters Miss Lisa’s group composed to advertise the Car Wash, 3:30 – 6pm, April 20.
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Haverty Hollow offers Holiday Camps many of the days Atlanta Public Schools are closed. Be sure to register for Drop In to be able to attend.
