If you’re considering homeschooling, new to homeschooling, or even a seasoned homeschool family, we encourage you all to come!
Childcare will be provided and dinner too! Come meet other homeschool families in Henderson County and surrounding areas and get a feel for what HCHA is all about!
Sign up at www.hchaonline.com
Honeybee Forest
Summer Day Camp for Children,
Waldorf Style, Ages 3 – 12
Come and join us for Asheville’s “Simple Summer Camp”
Held on our 3-acre fenced-in, private homestead in Asheville with chickens, rabbits, goats, and forest! Gardening, Enchanted Forest storytelling, campfires, water play, summer songs and puppetry, and more!
2017 Schedule:
Week 1: June 26 – 30
Week 2: July 10 – 14
Week 3: July 17 – 21
Week 4: August 7 – 11
Monday – Friday
Half-Day Option: 9:00AM – 1:00PM
Full-Day Option: 9:00AM – 4:00PM (includes rest time for the little ones)
$150 per week for half-day option
$220 per week for full-day option
RETURNING STUDENT DISCOUNT:
$135 for half-day
$200 for full-day
Please Call or Text Ines Kinchen at (920) 265-2576 to Register!
You can also email her at ineshoneybee@yahoo.com
We recommend registering ASAP… last year we had a waitlist, because camp fills up quickly.
A full day of music and fun activities at Silvermont Park. The basketball court will become a stage for a multitude of area musicians to include: Lynn Goldsmith & Jeter Mountain Band, Clint Richards, Soul Magnetica, and the Hog Town Squealers.
Activities on the grounds will include kids games, garden events, artists, crafts, nature walks and square dancing.
The house museum will be open and there will be displays of past-to-present throughout the house.
There will be lots of goodies available from food trucks as well.
We’re so excited to have local author and illustrator Holly Myers with us to read from her children’s book: Goodnight Asheville. This is a beautiful picture book filled with bright illustrations of our city’s favorite attractions, museums, historial landmarks, and other points of interest. There is even a key in the back to learn a bit more about each of these places if you want to take a deeper dive. This is one of our favorite local books and we can’t wait to celebrate with Holly!
Bring your family and join us at 11am for this children’s book illustrator as she presents this exciting new picture book all about your shoes!! We’ll also be doing super fun CRAFTS and we’ve heard there might even be some tasty TREATS!
Here’s a bit more about the book:
Boys love sneakers. But when a child finds that his toes have outgrown his favorite shoes, and they’ve gotten too dirty and smelly, his mom says it’s time for a new pair. Resistant to let go, the boy reminisces about all the good times he’s had with his favorite kicks on the city streets. There’s the paint splatter from his masterpiece and the drip from a Popsicle. There’s the scuff from when he fell off his skateboard. And there are those frayed laces that he learned to tie in bows and doubles. A new pair just won’t be the same. But, with bigger shoes to fill, the boy realizes new adventures await him. Maybe he could paint a little better? Or skate a little faster? This new picture book from the bestselling author of I Am Yoga explores the love and pride that kids have for their sneakers and the joy that can be found in growing up, growing out, and moving on.
Illustrator Katie Kath has a master’s degree in illustration from Savannah College of Art and Design. She is the illustrator of What a Beautiful Morning.
This year marks the 98th anniversary of the weeklong celebration of books for young readers known as Children’s Book Week, May 1-7. The tradition dates back to 1919, and is the longest-running national literacy initiative in the country. Every year, events are held nationwide at schools, libraries, bookstores, homes — wherever young readers and books connect. Malaprop’s is highlighting the 2017 festivities with two rollicking events. Match literary wits with your fellow children’s lit book lovers at Kid Lit Trivia Night on Friday May 5 from 6-8 pm. On Saturday, May 6, from 1-4 p.m. join us for a middle grade and young adult fan party with local authors as we launch a new program, First Reads for tweens and teens! First Reads offers a free galley copy of an upcoming book to kids in exchange for a 100-word review. Come for the bookish fun and prizes but stick around for cupcakes and the chance to support local literacy.
Ahhhhh! It’s May the 4th so NATURALLY we are pumped to launch Beth Revis’ new book Star Wars: Rebel Rising! There will be a costume contest, prizes and treats to keep everyone in utmost Star Wars spirits. Below is a bit more about the book. MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU….. and May the 4th be with US for this great event!
New York Times bestselling author Beth Revis brings to life the early adventures and heartbreaks of the heroine of the smash hit movie Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.
When Jyn Erso was five years old, her mother was murdered and her father taken from her to serve the Empire. But despite the loss of her parents she is not completely alone-Saw Gerrera, a man willing to go to any extremes necessary in order to resist Imperial tyranny, takes her in as his own, and gives her not only a home but all the abilities and resources she needs to become a rebel herself.
Jyn dedicates herself to the cause-and the man. But fighting alongside Saw and his people brings with it danger and the question of just how far Jyn is willing to go as one of Saw’s soldiers. When she faces an unthinkable betrayal that shatters her world, Jyn will have to pull the pieces of herself back together and figure out what she truly believes in… and who she can really trust.
Think you’re an A+ student in children’s literature? Come test your children’s literature knowledge against other bibliophiles, incuding our own children’s book buyer, editor & author Amy Cherrix!! You would be best to bring your young readers along….they may be needed 🙂
A captivating picture book biography of a boy who imagined a world full of dragons and grew up to be beloved author J. R. R. Tolkien.
John Ronald loved dragons. He liked to imagine dragons when he was alone, and with his friends, and especially when life got hard or sad. After his mother died and he had to live with a cold-hearted aunt, he looked for dragons. He searched for them at his boarding school. And when he fought in a Great War, he felt as if terrible, destructive dragons were everywhere. But he never actually found one, until one day, when he was a grown man but still very much a boy at heart, when he decided to create one of his own. John Ronald’s Dragons, a picture book biography by Caroline McAlister and illustrated by Eliza Wheeler, introduces the beloved creator of Middle Earth and author of The Hobbit to a new generation of children who see magic in the world around them.
The 21st annual Whole Bloomin Thing Spring Festival held in the historic Frog Level district in Waynesville is a much anticipated Mother’s Day weekend tradition. The festival features regional growers, talented local artisans, food trucks and live music. A truly fun family friendly event for Haywood County residents and visitors to our community to celebrate Spring.