Thank You 2017-18 Yearbook Sponsors!

We would like to express thanks to the following sponsors for their support of our school’s 2017-18 yearbook. We are so grateful to you for helping us create such a special memento for our students and their families!

Please help us by supporting these amazing businesses whenever you can! Without their involvement, this amazing yearbook project would not have been possible!

Platinum Yearbook Sponsors

Gold Yearbook Sponsors

Behringer-Herman-Eckhardt Orthodontics
Delta 109 Tavern & Eatery
Maumee Trim & Upholstery
Wauseon Eye Care

Silver Yearbook Sponsors

Grieser Interiors
Joe Newlove Real Estate & Auction
Mr. Schneider’s Math Tutoring
Stella Leona
Tano’s Pizza
Tiny’s Dairy Barn
Volkman Kitchen & Bath
Waldron Trucking

NHA Alma Mater Score Complete!

Donny Brown (formerly of the Verve Pipe) and Randy Sly (currently of the Verve Pipe) completed the final score of our brand new alma mater. They composed it for us for our first ever graduation ceremony! What do you think?!?

Thanks guys. We love it… It is absolutely amazing! It was pretty emotional hearing everyone sing along with it at the graduation ceremony!

New Horizons Academy Alma Mater

New Horizons we sing your praises each and every day.

For here we learn that we are colors in a stunning rich array.

With peace and love and hope we dare to proudly, boldly speak.

At NHA we celebrate we’re each remarkably unique.

Where e’er our paths may take us to whatever distant shore.

One voice will rise above them all as we sing ‘Soar Eagles, Soar!

NHA Alma Mater

We are so excited to announce that New Horizons Academy now has its very own alma mater anthem. From the moment Mr. Marty started working at NHA this past January, he felt that NHA should have its own anthem that spoke to the school’s mission and vision. After spending time connecting with the amazing students and staff at the school, he was inspired to pen our first official alma mater.

New Horizons we sing your praises each and every day.
For here we learn that we are colors in a stunning rich array.
With peace and love and hope we dare to proudly, boldly speak.
At NHA we celebrate we’re each remarkably unique.
Where e’er our paths may take us to whatever distant shore.
One voice will rise above them all as we sing ‘Soar Eagles, Soar!’

We are in the process of having a score composed for these lyrics so that we can all sing it together at the New Horizon Academy’s very first graduation ceremony this coming May!

Sensory Campaign Goal Achieved!

We can hardly believe it! Because of your generous support, we were able to raise 100% of the funds needed to purchase our new sensory equipment!

On behalf of the entire team here at Sara’s Garden and New Horizons Academy, we would like to express our deepest gratitude to everyone who helped us reach this goal. Thank you for trusting in our ministry. We treasure your partnership.

This sensory campaign was aimed at raising funds for a new LED interactive ball pool and calm and play crash pit for our students at New Horizons Academy. We believe these resources will be tremendous resource for the school and will offer something special for all of our children. They will provide both the energizing tactile stimulation from the ball pool as well as the calming and comforting effect from the calm and play crash pit.

Sensory Equipment Campaign
$4,199.00 – LED Interactive Ball Pool
$1,800.00 – Clear Balls for LED Ball Pool (Qty. 4,000)
$2,019.00 – Multi-Sensory Calm and Play Crash Pit
$8,018.00 – Total Project Cost or Campaign Goal

We are honored that so many of you have trusted Sara’s Garden with your gifts and donations! We know that many of you have made sacrifices this year in order to to continue supporting Sara’s Garden and for that we are so thankful. We appreciate you more than words can express!

Sara’s Garden is a 501(c)(3) organization. Your charitable contribution is tax deductible under 501(c)(3) of the IRS code, to the extent allowed by law. A receipt will be sent to you after your donation has been received to use for tax purposes.

If you have any questions, please feel free to call (419) 335-SARA, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday.

Music Program Update

We were so excited to begin providing a music program to the students last semester! This has been such an amazing experience to all of the students (and staff)!

The high school classes have learned four ukulele chords and are putting those into practice by playing several different songs. This coming semester, these classes will continue with a “Ukulele Hero” program and will also be studying some world music. A lot of students in this group started out the year VERY frustrated with the difficulty of learning a new instrument. It has been so rewarding to watch them recognize their own abilities and be able do things they never thought they were capable of!

The younger classes have been playing a variety of instruments, including bells, Boomwhackers, rhythm instruments and more. We have seen great progress with these classes in learning to recognize note shapes, learn their values and read rhythms.

We will be utilizing these new skills in the second half of the year as we begin to learn hand drumming on our new cajons. If you’re not familiar with a cajon, it’s a box-shaped instrument that plays a variety of sounds. The sound it makes is determined by the location and manner in which you hit the box. Feel free to stop in the music room and give it a try!

The younger classes seem to be glowing as they enter the music room. They cannot wait to hear a new song or touch a new instrument. The biggest change we have seen is in their willingness to sing on their own. In our last class before Christmas break, Melissa offered a small certificate and piece of candy to anyone who would sing a call and response song with her in front of their classmates. EVERY single student chose to participate… and almost all of them had a smile on their face the entire time!

The changes we’ve seen in each student, even in the short time we’ve been having class, have been so rewarding!

We are so grateful to everyone who has helped to make this new program such a huge success!

Upcoming STAR Curriculum Themes

Over the past couple months, our staff has been hard at work creating amazing curriculum resources for our STAR classrooms. STAR stands for Systemic Teaching Achieving Results. Everyone has been working hard to fine tune the curriculum and materials to best meet the needs of the children and provides teachers with a one-of-a-kind curriculum that focuses on the unique learning needs of our students.

We are so excited to finally unveil our new curriculum for the STAR classrooms this semester! Each month, the curriculum will have a specific theme and all the materials will be related to that theme. Parents and caregivers will receive a weekly lesson plan that includes the target book, vocabulary and concepts, fine and gross motor goals, and songs we will working on with your kids.

The months of January and February will focus on:

Snowmen,
Snowflakes, and
Arctic animals.

We hope this hard work pays off both in terms of classroom success for the children as well as helping parents stay connected and involved with what your children are learning each week.

Thank You Dollar General for Our Music Literacy Grant!

Sara’s Garden and New Horizons Academy want to thank the Dollar General Literacy Foundation for supporting our Music Literacy Grant, which helped start our music program!

The Dollar General Music Literacy Grant helped start New Horizon Academy’s Music Program with Melissa Valentine leading the way. She is teaching elementary school to high school students about the importance of music and how it can help in the development of literacy skills with instruments, books, and materials provided through the Dollar General Literacy Foundation. Melissa provides music classes and programs every Monday to help our students improve their literacy and fine arts skills.

Thank you, Dollar General; and thank you, Melissa Valentine for bringing music alive for our students while improving their academic skills!

Year End Campaign: Sensory Room Expansion

The sensory room at New Horizons Academy is crucial to the success of our students. It is a place where our students can go to calm their bodies and then get back to the business of learning.

Our sensory room has been specially designed to create environments that provide an immersive sensory experience for children with various abilities and disorders in order to meet their individual and specific sensory diets.

We are constantly looking for ways to improve the valuable resources available to our students, including those in our sensory room. Over Christmas break, we hope to be able to update our sensory room in such a way that will allow us to provide both light and dark activities simultaneously. This exciting plan to divide the sensory room will allow us to put even more focus on the varying and unique sensory needs of our students.

Our 2017 year-end campaign is aimed at raising funds for a new LED interactive ball pool and calm and play crash pit for the sensory room. We believe these resources would be tremendous additions to the area and will offer something special for all of our children. They would provide both the energizing tactile stimulation from the ball pool as well as the calming and comforting effect from the calm and play crash pit.

Sensory Room Expansion Campaign
$4,199.00 – LED Interactive Ball Pool
$1,800.00 – Clear Balls for LED Ball Pool (Qty. 4,000)
$2,019.00 – Multi-Sensory Calm and Play Crash Pit
$8,018.00 – Total Project Cost or Campaign Goal

This new ball pool and crash pit would be amazing resources to “unveil” to the students when they come back from Christmas break.

Would you consider making a year-end donation or pledge to help us provide these amazing resources to our students?

Registration Includes:

Scramble format (4-player teams)
Green and cart fees
Range balls
Goodie bag
Contests and prizes
Awards for top teams
Lunch Buffet

Time	Schedule of Events
7:00 a.m.	Registration
	Range Open
8:00 a.m.	Shotgun Scramble
1:00 p.m.	Lunch Buffet at NHA Career Center
2:00 p.m.	Awards

Sara’s Garden is a 501(c)(3) organization. Your charitable contribution is tax deductible under 501(c)(3) of the IRS code, to the extent allowed by law. A receipt will be sent to you after your donation has been received to use for tax purposes.

If you have any questions, please feel free to call (419) 335-SARA, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday.

2017-18 NHA Yearbook Sponsorship

We are so thankful to our sponsors for making this past year’s yearbook project possible.

Our goal is to once again provide our students and their parents with this very special memento. We hope to raise funds through sponsors in order to keep the costs of the yearbooks as low as possible, so that more students and their families will be able to afford one.

We invite you to consider being a sponsor of this very special project!

We also gladly accept general donations for those not interested in being recognized as sponsors.

COST: $150.00

This level of sponsorship includes a 3.75″ x 4.25″ (approx.) color advertisement in the yearbook, recognition on our website and recognition on social media with a link to your business’ social media page or website.

COST: $90.00

This level of sponsorship includes a business card sized color advertisement in the yearbook and recognition on our website.

COST: $30.00

This level of sponsorship includes your business or name listed in the yearbook and website.

Advertisements must be received by March 1, 2017.
Ads can be emailed in .jpg/.jpeg format to [email protected].
Ads may be dropped off at Sara’s Garden or New Horizons Academy.

Sara’s Garden is a 501(c)3 tax-exempt organization and your donation is tax-deductible within the guidelines of U.S. law. To claim a donation as a deduction on your U.S. taxes, please keep your email donation receipt as your official record. We’ll send it to you upon successful completion of your donation.

Thank You Yearbook Sponsors!

We would like to express thanks to the following sponsors for their support of our school’s 2016-2017 yearbook. This was the first year we were able to provide a yearbook for the children at New Horizons Academy and we are so thankful for this opportunity.

Please help us by supporting these amazing businesses whenever you can! Without their involvement, this amazing yearbook project would not have been possible!

Platinum Yearbook Sponsors

Grieser Transportation
Machacek Concrete LLC
Wauseon Eye Care
Wauseon Machine & Manufacturing

Gold Yearbook Sponsors

Brown Bag Market
Delta 109 Tavern & Eatery
Drs. Behringer, Herman, and Eckhardt-BHE Orthodontics
Maumee Trim & Upholstery
Scott Neuman–State Farm Insurance