Spring Plant & Flower Sale

Support the Harmony Garden! Buy flats of flowers from the Skyview PTA and fill your garden beds with gorgeous spring color! Click HERE to peruse the plant and flower menu. The printable order form can be found below.

There are two ways to order: You can return your form and money (checks can be made out to Skyview PTA) to Robin Kelly in the front office at Skyview Elementary School before April 16th. Or you can order your flats in person at the Harmony Garden Ground Breaking on April 16th from 9:00-11:30am.

Your flower flats will be ready for pick-up on Saturday, April 23rd at 1:00pm at the Skyview Harmony Garden. Please send your questions to Sarah Greenman at skyviewgarden@gmail.com. (The order form below is a digital image. Just click, hold and drag it to your desktop. Then open the file and print.) Thank you!

March 19th Work Party

Hi Friends! The official ground breaking for the Skyview Harmony Garden is coming soon, but before that can happen, Curtis Scoggins - our phenomenal landscape architect and star volunteer - will need volunteer help on Saturday, March 19th to lay in some of the garden's hardscaping. This is the Harmony Garden's very first work party, so sign up at the link below and get in on the fun!

Harmony Garden Work Party

March 19, 2016  

8:00am - noon

CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP

As you know, the Skyview Elementary School Harmony Garden will be the first of its kind in RISD. Part organic vegetable garden and part musical instrument installation, this beautiful space will serve as an outdoor classroom for 775 Skyview students and 90 Skyview staff members. Thank you for signing up to be a part of Skyview's very first Harmony Garden work party. Coffee, juice and gourmet pastries from Central Market will be provided courtesy of Pickaperch Real Estate! See you there.

Skyview Elementary School

9229 Meadowknoll Drive

Dallas, TX 75243

Whole Kids Foundation Grant

We're thrilled to announce that Skyview Harmony Garden has been awarded a Whole Kids Foundation grant for $2,000.00 in support of the garden ground breaking! Whole Foods is invested in local school garden efforts and is excited to partner with Skyview Elementary in the creation of our outdoor learning environment. The Skyview Harmony Garden will be the first of its kind in the Richardson school district, featuring full wheelchair accessibility and an installation of outdoor musical instruments. Thank you Whole Foods for partnering with us!

SAVE THE DATE

Skyview Harmony Garden Groundbreaking

Saturday, April 16, 2016

9:00am - 11:30am

9229 Meadowknoll Drive, Dallas, TX 75243

Gardening, Food, Music and FUN!

Garden Committee Meeting | Tuesday, February 2nd

First, the Skyview PTA would like to express our deep gratitude for YOU. The Harmony Garden is almost a reality and we are over-the-moon about the financial support it has received this year. Thank you to everyone who has helped finance the first phase of this beautiful project. A special thank you to the Exchange Club of Lake Highlands, Moss Haven Elementary PTA, Town Creek Neighborhood Association and Forest Meadow Neighborhood Association. We wouldn't be here without you.

The ground-breaking for the Skyview Harmony Garden is scheduled for the weekend of April 15th and 16th. That means we have a little under 3 months until our BIG dream is a BIG reality. Some of you who are reading this have attended one or both of our fall committee meetings and others of you have simply said, "count me in" when the time comes. Well, the time has come!

Please join us at our next meeting on February 2, 2016 from 6:30-8pm. The meeting will be held at the home of Sarah Greenman, Skyview's PTA president. We will be serving refreshments and hors d'oeuvres and discussing action items. Get ready to mobilize! RSVP by email to skyviewgarden@gmail.com and Sarah will send you her address with more information about the meeting. This is going to be a ton of fun and we cannot wait to work with you!

Harmony Garden Ground Breaking | Save the Date

Tubano Drums for the Skyview Harmony Garden

Here is our first set of instruments for the Skyview Harmony Garden! This purchase was made possible by donations from YOU via "Donor's Choose". Thank you to our music teacher, Mr. Aeschbacher for organizing the purchase of the Tubano Drums! We'll have more to announce in the coming weeks, but until then take a look at our colorful Tubano Drums!

An letter from Skyview's music teacher, Mr. Austin Aeschbacher:

Thank you all for your generous donations to this Outdoor Harmony Garden project. We are still in the early stages of development for our garden, but these tubano drums were the first leap of many in ensuring that this garden will impact all of my students to come. We are looking forward to a ground-breaking ceremony in April of this year, and we hope to enjoy the fruits of our labor in the Fall of 2016. 

With these tubano drums, our students are already thrilled and excited about what the future holds for their school, and I cannot wait for the chance and opportunity to reach students in a whole new classroom environment. I am certain that when these drums will be a show piece for everyone at Skyview to perform and make beautiful harmonies in the outdoor communal space.

With gratitude,
Mr. Aeschbacher

Volunteer for the 2015-16 Garden Committee

School is back in session and it's time to assemble the new Skyview Harmony Garden Committee! Many of you have expressed a desire to help manifest Skyview's musical outdoor learning environment and we're ready to dig in!

The committee will meet once a month through the fall as we finalize plans with the district, secure our renewable water source, solicit donations and fundraise. We want everything to be ready by April 2016 for our official ground breaking. Please come be a part of this exciting development. Join the Harmony Garden Committee, collaborate with your neighbors and help your neighborhood school BLOOM!

If you're interested in being a part of the Harmony Garden Committee at Skyivew, please send an email to Sarah Greenman, the committee chair, at skyviewgarden@gmail.com or reach out via Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/skyviewharmonygarden.

 Thank you and we look forward to hearing from you!