Project Description

Questions? Contact Us! [email protected] | 812-334-8349

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This camp will be a games themed camp featuring lots of board games from our partnership with The Toy Chest in Nashville, Indiana. We will also learn finger and string games like Cat’s Cradle in honor of the Vonnegut book being featured with this year’s Granfalloon. We will be visiting the Lilly Library to learn a bit more about Kurt Vonnegut himself and his love of games.  We will also be sure to have plenty of outdoor game play time from hopscotch to full camp bouts of kickball and so much more!!! Students will be encouraged over the week to think about what they like about the various games, and as the week progresses, they’ll have opportunities to create and work on building their own games!

This week we are offering our participants a week of fun field trips out into the community with swimming being a big part of the fun excursions.  Students are asked to bring swimsuits daily along with life jackets or puddle jumpers if needed to be safe.  Especially on lake days kids will all be encouraged to have some sort of flotation device on them.

This week our younger campers will be exploring the outdoors! Students will be hiking, taking closer looks at plants and insects, learning about our local environment and ecosystems, visiting local bodies of water, collecting elements from nature for art projects, and more! Even the most indoorsy kid will find a new appreciation for the outdoors after a week of fun experiences.

Join us for an exciting week of exploration and empowerment at the Global Leadership Camp! Designed for 4th-8th grade students, this camp will help participants build essential reading, writing, and speaking skills while learning about the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Through hands-on activities, group projects, and discussions, students will explore local, national, and global challenges and work together to create innovative solutions. Led by an experienced ESL and humanities educator with 20 years of expertise, this camp is especially welcoming to English Language Learners, offering a supportive and engaging environment for leadership and collaboration.

Do you love mixing potions? Building with Legos? Constructing with K’Nex or Magna-Tiles? Growing Crystals? Doing science experiments? We’re going to have a week of fun and messy science, paired with a few field trips to IU to expand knowledge through more hands-on learning!

Dive into the past and uncover fascinating stories at the History Explorer Camp! Perfect for students in 4th-8th grade, this camp focuses on strengthening reading, writing, and speaking skills through an engaging exploration of historical events and figures. Campers will participate in interactive activities, storytelling, and creative projects that bring history to life. With the guidance of a licensed ESL and humanities teacher with 20 years of experience, English Language Learners will feel supported in a fun and inclusive setting that inspires curiosity and a love of learning.

We all know about July 4th celebrations occurring right in the heart of summer, but what other celebrations occur both in our country, and around the world in the summer? Our campers will spend the first four days learning about various cultures and their holidays throughout the summer.  We will then culminate the week participating in the July 4th Parade walking, riding bikes, and riding on one of the Harmony buses alongside many of the students, parents and friends of Harmony.

Do you have a child who always wants to be cutting, pasting, gluing, building, drawing, and creating using every art supply they can get their hands on? Then this is the camp for them!  We will engage in on-site activities as well as get off-site into nature for nature-inspired art and natural-materials creations!  This camp will give students several opportunities to create pottery and have their project fired in our kiln.  Students taking one week of camp will leave with at least one fired piece that they can paint before taking home. Students returning the second week will be able to glaze and create some more finished pieces.

The Harmony School Circus Arts Camp is two amazing weeks of total circus immersion! Kids will learn traditional circus skills from around the world, including their origins and cultural significance, as well as discover the fascinating characters of the circus. We will explore the world of circus through creative play, language arts and poetry, craft-making, art works, building and engineering, cultural arts, and practical life skills. We will also conduct daily workshops on circus skills and stage-craft, Campers will even make their own circus-themed daily snacks! Of course, the most exciting part of circus camp is the creation of our own spectacular circus production for family and friends. Showcasing the campers’ new skills in juggling, plate-spinning, devilsticks, diabolos, object balancing, stilt walking, balance boards, rolling globes, hula hoops and more, the circus show is not to be Missed! Simultaneously an arts and circus activities camp will be running and kids will rotate between the two.. Each day every attendee will work on circus skills, create arts and crafts to decorate for the circus performance, have opportunities to explore circus themed books, games, puzzles and more.

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WHO CAN PARTICIPATE

Camps are open to the public for students in 1st-8th grade. Circus Camp is open to all ages.

FEES

Early Sign Up Rates (price will increase $15/per camp on April 15th):

Option 1 (pay in full now):

  • Pay $300* for each week of camp selected

Option 2 (pay $50 deposit now and remaining balance by April 15th):

  • Pay a non-refundable deposit of $50, for each camp selected
  • Pay remaining balance of camp fees for each camp selected by April 15th
  • You will receive an invoice for final payment

* In order to receive the Harmony Student Discount ($100 off for each camp) the camper must be currently enrolled and will be enrolling for the 25/26 school year OR be a new student enrolled for 25/26. Use the coupon code given to you by Harmony!

HOW TO REGISTER

Register at the “Registration” tab above

INCLUDED IN REGISTRATION

Each student will receive one camp t-shirt & two snacks per day will be provided. 

HOURS

9am-4pm, Monday – Friday

Doors will open at 8:30am for drop-off. Pick-up ends at 4:30pm.

STUDENTS SHOULD BRING

  • A lunch
  • A backpack
  • Sunscreen
  • Clothes to get dirty in!
  • Shoes (for walking on field trips)
  • Items needed for individual camps (Swimsuits on field trip weeks, etc)
  • Any daily medications or emergency medications that need to be on hand (inhalers, epi pens, etc)

STUDENTS SHOULD NOT BRING

  • Cell phones
  • Devices
  • Weapons or play weapons of any sort
  • Items that will distract from their time at camp, that are not necessary… ie make up, toys, electronics, cameras

Campers will be inside and out daily, with an hour for lunch and breaks in the morning and afternoon. Our building is air conditioned and our outdoor play areas have optional shade and sun.

REFUND POLICY

  • In you are un-enrolling a camper the non-refundable deposit will be kept:
    • Prior to April 15, a full refund will be given
    • From April 16th – May 31st, a 75% refund will be given
    • After June 1st
    • A 50% refund will be given ONLY if a camper is un-enrolled 2 weeks before their camp start date, otherwise no refund will be issued
  • If camp is canceled due to an event out of the control of Harmony School (such as: weather event etc.) there will not be a refund

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Noelle Wanchic

Noelle is a 3rd/4th grade teacher at Harmony school as well as co-coordinator for Camp Rhino! Noelle is also a musician (you can catch her locally with folk band Hazy Hollows), artist, mother and nature enthusiast. She has over a decade of outdoor leadership experience at Camp Palawopec as the caving program director and senior staff as well as with youth groups through public and alternative schools in Asheville, North Carolina and loves nothing more than being in nature with kids. Noelle obtained a minor in visual arts through Warren Wilson College. and more recently has taken continuing courses in 3-D design and figure modeling through Bloomington’s Ivy Tech campus. She enjoys being able to integrate art and nature exploration into her classroom curriculum in meaningful ways and looks forward to getting into hand-on, full immersion, get-messy-with-it creation and exploring the natural wonders of Monroe County in our Camp Rhino art and field-trips sessions!


Elaine Bonadies

Elaine is one of the K-2 teachers at Harmony during the school year, but during the summer often teaches summer camps in her free time. This year she’ll be co-directing Camp Rhino and leading several of the camps throughout the summer! She’s been teaching summer camps most of the last 20 years for a variety of organizations. She’s taught summer and breaks-from-school camps for the YMCA of Greater Indianapolis, for MCCSC, for Lawrence Township, for Wonderlab, and for Harmony School! These summer camp experiences have given Elaine chances to explore areas of exploration and education that she isn’t always able to explore within the day to day teachings in her classroom. She enjoys having these opportunities to expand her knowledge and to bring new levels of excitement and enrichment to students she is lucky enough to work with in these more relaxed environments.


Jessica Brocchini

Jessica is a Bloomington native who has enjoyed making art and hands-on creativity from a young age. She finds inspiration in nature and the people, places, and stories around her. She earned her bachelors in art education and has taught in the public school system as well as other venues. Jessica loves the process of creating and self-expression entwined! She has taken her passion and interest in art expression and developed it into facilitating and supporting the art-making process for others. She has found teaching art to be a very exciting and fulfilling endeavor and looks forward to bringing that energy to Camp Rhino this summer!


Zevon Adkisson

Zevon is from Rockport, Indiana where he lived until moving to Bloomington in 2008 to attend Indiana University for Mathematics and Mathematics Education. Zevon grew up playing baseball, fishing, boating, kayaking, hiking, and exploring the outdoors with friends and family. He was a 21st Century Scholar allowing him the opportunity to attend IU and received his Bachelor’s Degree in Math and Math Education. While in college, Zevon observed and student-taught in the Middle School for a few years before graduating. After graduating from IU, he taught as a substitute teacher in the Monroe County Public School System before getting a job as one of the co-teachers in Harmony’s 5th & 6th Grade Class. After more than a decade of co-leading the 5th and 6th Grade Class, Zevon became Harmony’s Middle School Coordinator and the Mathematics teacher. Outside of school, Zevon is an avid disc golfer, playing other sports, cheering on the Atlanta Braves, hiking, fishing, reading, and spending time with his lovely family.


Ann Dorwin

A Bloomington native, Ann graduated from Indiana University with degrees in Applied Health Sciences and Psychological & Brain Sciences. Logically, she put all that higher education to good use by running off to join the circus and spent the next few decades touring with traditional shows across the globe, working as a performing artist and artistic director. Ann’s experience as a working professional athlete provides her with some unique insight into functional kinesiology and athletic performance, not to mention a well developed sense of humor!  Although retired from circus performance and travel, she now uses her degree and many certifications she has acquired since attending IU to work in health and healing of the whole person, across the lifespan; because the world is a better place when we feel like our better selves!


Devin Blankenship

Devin has been an educator for 20 years, teaching humanities, filmmaking, ESL, entrepreneurship, theater, and career education in both the U.S. and abroad. He holds a Master of Leadership Development from Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College and a BSEd from Indiana University, with licenses in Gifted & Talented Education, English-as-a-Second Language, English Language Arts, Social Studies, Speech, and Theater.

Devin designed Global Leadership Camp and History Explorer Camp to help students strengthen reading, writing, and speaking skills through hands-on learning. A 2020 IU SDG Global Education Curriculum Development Fellow, he is passionate about leadership, storytelling, and making history come alive. He also leads international travel programs, taking students and adults to Greece, Japan, Brazil, and Argentina. Devin enjoys watching students take ownership of their learning and explore the

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