HTA - Hope & Thrive Academy

⛳️ We are having a tee-rific time with friends! The greens may be mini, but these summer memories are major. 🏖️☀️

No beating around this Bush — their cafe and museum is amazing! We love our Summer Adventure Trips! 😎☀️🫘

Well, after delays because of our annual mission trip to Belize being pushed back to March, then rushed to get all of our Easter activities done and now the water levels in East Tennessee are so low that wheelchair access is not practical, we have finally set the date and venue for the 16th annual East Tennessee Expo! That's right, we are going inland for the first time in East Tennessee but have had great success doing it in North Texas when the parks there were actually flooded. So, we are confident that this is going to be a fun, faithfillef, farm extravaganza at the Dumplin Valley Farms in Dandridge Tennessee. :-) Attached is the flyer with all of the specifics for everyone to use and share and the registration is officially open at www.access-life.org/eventregistration. IT'S EXPO TIME IN TENNESSEE! Please sign up to participate and volunteer as well as share with your friends and family so we can have a greatly God blessed event as always!

🎳 We rolled out our Summer Adventures by joining the Greene County Special Bowlers at The Alley in Greeneville this week. 🎳 It was sweet making new friends and being a part of a league!

We ended our school year today recalling God’s faithfulness and celebrating friendships! Our Independence Track played SINGO 🎤🎶 with Ms. Lynda Seeley, ate lunch together at Little Dutch Restaurant, watched the Muppet Movie as a wrap-up to reading a biography of Jim Henson in Book Club, played games and won prizes. We finished up some of our sewing projects from our “Pins & Purpose” Sewing Class and also received sweet treats from Pastor George and Margaret.

Retro vibes that make you want to press rewind. 🪩 Students painted custom cassette canvases while listening to 80’s music and tried solving some Rubik’s cubes before enjoying lunch at Good Old Days.

🎼🎨 A special thanks to the TN Arts Commission for a generous grant that makes this “Crafting Hope” project possible!

https://tnartscommission.org/

🐎 Hats, horses, and handmade fun! Our Social Track studied Matthew 20:16 and watched the winning moments for Kentucky Derby’s Golden Tempo (a horse that was last but became first). They created, named and raced their own horses while wearing fun hats 🎩 , then made horse 🐴 keychains. Everyone enjoyed derby day, the DIY way! 🏆