School searching in Savannah? Visit Savannah Christian Preparatory School, an independent, non-denominational PK-12 college prep Christian school, during a Welcome Home Wednesday open house this fall.

Welcome Home Wednesdays

Open House 2021: December 1
9:30AM
Reservations are required.
Register for Welcome Home Wednesdays online here.
For more information on this event or admissions at Savannah Christian Preparatory School, please email Kathi Strickland, Director of Family Relations, at kstrickland@savcps.com or call the admissions office at 912.629.5544.

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Fun comes in all shapes and sizes and the ukulele is proof of that!

This weekend the Savannah Cultural Arts Center is offering a ukulele workshop for ages 10 to 15. This is a great chance to try out a musical instrument, expand your music skill set, and just have fun with rhythm and sounds. No experience necessary, open to all levels.

Sat. Nov. 20 2021 @ Savannah Cultural Arts Center (201 Montgomery St)

Pre-register online here.

Cost: $10. ($5 for City of Savannah residents)

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Holiday Family Movies @ Lucas Theatre for the Arts & Trustees Theatre, Savannah 

Holiday classic movies @ Lucas Theatre for the Arts in downtown Savannah during December are a fun family tradition. See the schedule & purchase tickets online here. 

Also, a Saturday showing of FREE Christmas cartoons and FREE Polar Express Party will be @ Trustees Theater on Broughton Street in downtown Savannah on Sat. Dec. 18

HOME ALONE @ Lucas Theatre for the Arts
SAT. DEC. 4,  3PM
$5 ticket gets you a “Little Neros” PIZZA gummy giveaway and other fun surprises.
Tickets: $5. Purchase tickets online here.

WHITE CHRISTMAS @ Lucas Theatre for the Arts
SAT. DEC. 4, 7PM
Tickets: $5. Purhase tickets online here.

NATIONAL LAMPOON’S CHRISTMAS VACATION @ Lucas Theatre for the Arts
THURS. DEC. 9, 7PM
Tickets: $5. Purchase tickets online here.

CLASSIC CHRISTMAS CARTOONS @ Trustees Theater (FREE)
SENSORY FRIENDLY SCREENING
SAT. DEC. 18, 11AM
Sing “Fah who Foraze, Dah who doraze” and welcome Christmas by bringing your cheer to an hour of treasured family holiday cartoons — “Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas” and “A Charlie Brown Christmas” — on the big screen. Complete with festive giveaways for young moviegoers.
At this sensory friendly screening, audience members can enjoy a positive, stress-free matinee at the movies in a safe and accepting environment — lights turned up slightly, sound turned down slightly, attendees can make noise and move about the theater, and no sssshhhing.
Admission is FREE with a donation of a non-perishable food item for Second Harvest.
AT THE TRUSTEES THEATER

THE POLAR EXPRESS PJ PARTY @ Trustees Theater  (FREE)
SAT. DEC. 18, 3PM
You’ll be able to watch it with a special sleigh bell to ring while wearing your most comfy Christmas jammies.
Admission is FREE with a donation of a non-perishable food item for Second Harvest.
AT THE TRUSTEES THEATER

IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE @ Trustees Theater  (FREE)
SAT. DEC. 18, 7PM
Ring your bell when an angel get his wings and enjoy this quintessential holiday classic with your family, friends, and neighbors.
Admission is FREE with a donation of a non-perishable food item for Second Harvest.

Details on all of the above here. 

Come shop @ High Cotton Kids Winter Sale, Nov. 17-20th, 2021

Parent-and-me Kindermusik Savannah Class for ages 4-7

Join Kindermusik Savannah every Monday afternoon with your 4-7 year old for music making and group instruction!

Your first trial class is FREE! Meets Mondays at 4PM – text 912-432-5885 for more info.

November 2021 Monthly Musical Playdate

There are just a FEW spaces left for this Saturday Nov. 20’s monthly musical playdate: “Oh So Thankful!” Each child receives an instrument, 10 Kindermusik songs and a special coupon to apply to future classes.

Enroll online before the spaces fill: kindermusikwith88keys.com

Kindermusik…A Good Beginning Never Ends.

Location: Kindermusik with 88 Keys, 183 Deerfield Rd W, Bloomingdale GA 31302

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Teen ornament making workshop @ SCAD Museum of Art, 4-6PM Fri. Nov. 19

Teens take over SCAD MOA at these artist workshops.

Supplies included. All skill levels welcome. Boxed dinner provided.
4-6PM
$10 ADMISSION

Sign up!
Email: kpoitras@scad.edu
Kristin Poitras
Coordinator of museum visitation

See teen night dates and listings on the museum event calendar.

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Nov. 19
Glam up the holidays
Adorn a custom-beaded ornament inspired by Christian Siriano’s showstopping designs in People Are People and avant-garde rings in
Ring Redux: The Susan Grant Lewin Collection.

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Dec. 10
Conjure kami spirits at LARP workshop
Tour Japanese artist Izumi Kato’s exhibition Stand By You. Then inhabit Kato’s spectral creatures at this live-action role playing workshop.

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Dec. 17
Make cookie-cutter cool
Customize cookies styled like works on view, with Brittany Richmond, SCAD MOA assistant curator

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WHERE
SCAD Museum of Art
601 Turner Blvd.
Savannah, Ga.

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Walk with a Doc, Nov. 27 2021, Savannah 

Walk off that Thanksgiving Dinner while getting to know a Savannah pediatrician.

Join pediatrician Dr. Yolanda Rivera-Caudill of The Tiny Beet on Sat. Nov. 27 2021, 9-10AM to walk towards a healthier you @ Walk with a Doc in Savannah’s Daffin Park.

Free and family friendly!

This a free event meant to encourage the community to live active and healthier lives.

Why do it alone when you can have a local doc by your side?

Walk with a Doc
9AM Sat. Nov. 27 2021, 9-10AM Daffin Park, Savannah (between playground & fountain)
Free & open to the public
EMAIL: thedoctorbeet@gmail.com

The Tiny Beet is a general pediatric direct primary care (DPC) practice specializing in Lifestyle Medicine in order to focus on the root cause of patients’ health.

Dr. Caudill is on a mission to help her patients develop and maintain healthier lifestyles through general pediatrics and lifestyle medicine.

Learn more about Walk With A Doc here. 

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Homeschooler’s Spelling Bee with Advanced Academics, Pooler 

Advanced Academics is partnering with the Lions Club to host a spelling bee for homeschool students in the Coastal Empire.

Sponsored and judged by The Lions Club of Pooler, which will send representatives as impartial judges, pronouncers and record keepers.

​Study resources are available at spellingbee.com. Participation is limited to twenty spellers per grade level.

REGISTER ONLINE HERE. 

Organizers will email participants in the near future with times for each grade level etc. Questions? Please email Ms. Evelyn at adv.aca.evelyn@gmail.com.

Homeschooler’s Spelling Bee
Sat. Dec. 11 2021
For grades 1-8
405 W. Hwy 80, Pooler
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Advanced Academics in Pooler

Advanced Academics is a microschool, which does mean a small campus, but also means that Advanced Academics can customize education for each child. Face-to-face customized learning on a small campus provides an enriched learning environment.

Tutoring for K-12 is also offered as well as full & half day learning.

Learn more here.

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Advanced Academics
email: adv.aca.mail@gmail.com
912-348-2017
405 Hwy 80, Suite 104
Pooler, GA 31322

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently identified the southern United States as a “Diabetes Belt,” meaning that those who live in our area are more likely to have type 2 diabetes than anyone else in the United States.

“This is a concerning discovery,” Internist and Primary Care Physician Dr. Douglas Perry said. “Those who live with diabetes often have difficult daily routines to manage, which can quickly become overwhelming. They have to be extremely vigilant in watching what they eat, how active they are, what medicines they’re taking, and how they’re taking them.”

SouthCoast Health offers Diabetic Self-Management Training Sessions, designed to teach the skills necessary for managing diabetes, such as creating meal plans and how to check blood pressure.

Learn more here.

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Pediatrician searching in the Savannah-Pooler area? See the patient family review above of Coastal Pediatrics  which has offices in Savannah & Pooler.

If you would like to join the Coastal Pediatrics practice, but are unsure if they are participating providers with your insurance, check their list of accepted insurances here.

If you do not see your insurance on their list, please contact their office and check with the receptionist to see if they accept your insurance before making an appointment.

If you already know that Coastal Pediatrics accepts your insurance and you would like to make a new patient appointment, please call 912-353-7744 to schedule the appointment.

Learn more here.

Coastal Pediatrics- Savannah
2 Wheeler Street
Savannah, GA 31405

Coastal Pediatrics- Pooler
1000 Towne Center Blvd
Building 1000B
Pooler, GA 31322

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Millions of twinkling lights are strung across 5 acres @ Coastal Georgia Botanical Gardens in Savannah. This year’s event will be held as a drive thru beginning Fri. Nov. 26 and continuing on select nights through Christmas Eve.

Also, drop your Letters to Santa off @ the special Letters to Santa mailbox @ Coastal Georgia Botanical Gardens.

Learn more here. 

The 2021 Holiday Lights are as follows: Nov 26th &27th, December 3rd & 4th, December 10th & 11th, and Dec 17th through Dec 24th.

Tickets

The easiest way to purchase tickets is upon entry as you enter the display on Highway 17. Cash and cards accepted. If you would like to pre-purchase tickets, please visit the gift shop during regular business hours.

Location

The Coastal Gardens (not to be confused with the Savannah Botanical Gardens on Eisenhower) are located at 2 Canebrake Road in Savannah. The entrance to Holiday Lights is located on the westbound lane of Hwy 17 just before Canebrake Road.

The gardens staff will post any cancellations on their website and send notifications to Facebook.

You’re invited this Sunday for The Sandbox Children’s Museum Author series @ 3PM this Sun. Nov. 14 with Ellen Giordano as she reads her book The Best Day Ever.

Free with Admission. Make sure you have a spot and reserve your tickets online @ www.thesandbox.org

Sandbox Interactive Children’s Museum
80 Nassau St
Hilton Head Island, SC 29928
(843) 842-7645

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Savannah Classical Academy now accepting 2022-23 lottery applications

Savannah Classical Academy is free, public K-12 charter school with an entirely open enrollment.

Savannah Classical Academy’s annual lottery is now open for all students from kindergarten to twelfth grade for the 2022-23 school year.

Don’t miss the deadline for your family to enroll in this free public charter Savannah school.

Apply for the lottery now. Learn more and apply online here. 

The Mission of Savannah Classical Academy is to provide every child with a classical and academically rigorous education while instilling a commitment to civic virtue and moral character.

Savannah Classical Academy
705 East Anderson Street
Savannah, Georgia 31401
(912) 395-4040
SavannahClassicalAcademy.org

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Open House @ St. Andrew’s School (ages 3 to 12th grade)

School searching in Savannah?

Learn more about St. Andrew’s School, a private, independent, college preparatory Wilmington Island school, ages 3-12th grade @ one of the school’s upcoming open houses:

Open House
JAN. 18 2022
8:30AM Grades 5 – 12
9:30AM Pre-K 3 through Grade 4
Register online here.

St. Andrew’s (age 3 to grade 12) is an independent International Baccalaureate World School inspiring young people each day in the area of academics, arts, and athletics.

St. Andrew’s School, 601 Penn Waller Rd, Savannah, 31410. 912.897.4941 ext 452, www.saintschool.com , email hellew@saintschool.com On Facebook here.   On Twitter here. St. Andrew’s is a SouthernMamas.com advertiser.

Walk with a Doc, Nov. 27 2021, Savannah 

Walk off that Thanksgiving Dinner while getting to know a Savannah pediatrician.

Join pediatrician Dr. Yolanda Rivera-Caudill of The Tiny Beet on Sat. Nov. 27 2021, 9-10AM to walk towards a healthier you @ Walk with a Doc in Savannah’s Daffin Park.

Free and family friendly!

This a free event meant to encourage the community to live active and healthier lives.

Why do it alone when you can have a local doc by your side?

Walk with a Doc
9AM Sat. Nov. 27 2021, 9-10AM Daffin Park, Savannah (between playground & fountain)
Free & open to the public
EMAIL: thedoctorbeet@gmail.com

The Tiny Beet is a general pediatric direct primary care (DPC) practice specializing in Lifestyle Medicine in order to focus on the root cause of patients’ health.

Dr. Caudill is on a mission to help her patients develop and maintain healthier lifestyles through general pediatrics and lifestyle medicine.

Learn more about Walk With A Doc here. 

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Teens take over SCAD MOA at these artist workshops.

Supplies included. All skill levels welcome. Boxed dinner provided.
4-6PM
$10 ADMISSION

Sign up!
Email: kpoitras@scad.edu
Kristin Poitras
Coordinator of museum visitation

See teen night dates and listings on the museum event calendar.

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Dec. 10
Conjure kami spirits at LARP workshop
Tour Japanese artist Izumi Kato’s exhibition Stand By You. Then inhabit Kato’s spectral creatures at this live-action role playing workshop.

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Dec. 17
Make cookie-cutter cool
Customize cookies styled like works on view, with Brittany Richmond, SCAD MOA assistant curator

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WHERE
SCAD Museum of Art
601 Turner Blvd.
Savannah, Ga.

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New 2-day (2 Saturdays) writing & art workshop for teens @ Savannah Cultural Arts Center

Let’s change everything you thought you knew about poetry, shall we?

This 2-day workshop for teens (taking place over 2 Saturdays) will focus on the rupture of form as well as genre. In other words, this is a hands-on workshop where we will be making things as well as writing them. As a group, we’ll observe and discuss collage, erasures, experimental and found poetry, playing with books that don’t look like books, and reading work that leaps off the page, literally. As individuals, students will be blacking out words, cutting things up, and plastering things together. Students are encouraged to get funky and think outside the box in this class. As a group, we’ll think about and define, for ourselves, what combining visual art, poetry, and storytelling can accomplish.

@ Savannah Cultural Arts Center (201 Montgomery St)

For ages 13-17

Sat. Nov 13 and Sat. Nov. 20 – 11:30AM-1:30PM

Parents – does this sound like fun? Join us in December for the adult creative writing workshop!

Ready to register? Sign up online here.

Want to see all the workshops at the Savannah Cultural Arts Center? Find them here.

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Frogwarts 2021 in Savannah

Frogwarts: A Magical Adventure is back!

Georgia State Railroad Museum and Savannah Children’s Museum will transform into a magical Harry Potter-themed experience during “Frogwarts” on Sunday, Nov. 14 from 11AM-3PM.

This year’s classes will include Wand Making, Potions, Fortune Telling, Defense Against the Dark Arts: Glow in the Dark Fun!, Care of Magical Creatures with Georgia Reptile Society, Quill Writing, Herbology, Muggle Studies and Quidditch. Attendees can also take a ride on our diesel locomotive, the Frogwarts Express or visit Gringotts Wizarding Bank.

Some CHS community partners will also be leading workshops, including Memorial Health Dwaine & Cynthia Willett Children’s Hospital leading aromatherapy and Herbology activities, Front Porch Improv performing some Harry Potter-themed skits, Dogwood Pediatric Dentistry sharing the art of Charms, The Lowcountry Turners will be creating unique wooden wands and Leopold’s Ice Cream will be on-site serving Harry Potter inspired sweet treats.

This event is $12 for all participants, ages eighteen months and older.

Pre-registration is required. Pre-register online here.  

Coastal Heritage Society members receive access to early registration, an express check-in line and priority boarding for the Frogwarts Express train ride.  Become a member here.

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Police Memorial Trail Reopens in Savannah, Helping Link Daffin Park to Lake Mayer

Savannah’s Police Memorial Trail will officially reopen on Mon. Nove. 29. A ribbon-cutting ceremony is planned for 11:30AM at the trailhead on the corner of Kerry St. and Dixie Ave., where City and County officials will gather with the Tide to Town board and members of the community to celebrate the conclusion of the five-year renovation effort.

Extending from Kerry St. to near the corner of 52nd St. and Bee Rd., the Police Memorial Trail was originally constructed by Chatham County in the 1990s but had been closed and awaiting repairs since 2016 after being damaged by Hurricane Matthew. The City of Savannah allocated nearly $600,000 for the project.

Additionally supported by the YMCA of Coastal Georgia and Healthy Savannah through funding from the Centers for Disease Control’s Racial & Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH) grant, the system will eventually become a protected network of walking and biking trails that will span more than 30 miles, linking 62 of Savannah’s neighborhoods, 30 schools, hospitals, universities, waterways and recreational areas and creating activity-friendly routes to everyday destinations.

The nonprofit organization Friends of Tide to Town is coordinating public and private efforts to complete the urban trail system. As of right now, Phase 2A of the section known as Truman Linear Park Trail is complete from Lake Mayer to Jenkins High School, along with the Police Memorial Trail from 52nd & Bee Rd. to Kerry St.

Friends of Tide to Town hopes the next phase known as Truman Linear Park Trail Phase 2B, will begin construction in summer 2022 and connect the two existing trail segments. Upcoming phases of Tide to Town will include the west side of Savannah through the developing Canal District, and on the south side of Savannah along Middleground Road. For more details, visit https://tidetotown.org/

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Monthly storytime at SCAD Museum of Art

Treat your young art lover to SCAD MOA Story Time on the first Saturday of each month.

Next Monthly Story Hour: Sat.  Dec. 4 2021 at 11AM. Enjoy exciting tales and fun activities.

Story Time is programmed for children ages 3 and older.

To ensure the health and safety of all museum patrons and staff, touchless temperature checks are required prior to entering the galleries and face coverings are mandatory. Be mindful of your fellow patrons by social distancing. Maintain 6 feet of space between you and other guests.

See all tour dates and listings on the museum event calendar.

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WHERE
SCAD Museum of Art
601 Turner Blvd.
Savannah, Ga.

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Join The Sandbox Children’s Museum on Hilton Head Is. this Friday Nov. 5 2021 5-8PM for their monthly FREE Family Fun Night.

This month please bring a canned good for The Deep Well pantry, come make a lantern for the Hilton Head Lantern Parade, and get your vision screening by the Lions Club.

Reserve space at www.thesandbox.org and click Book Now, then click on HHI General Admissions, then on the calendar image, click Fri. Nov. 5.

Free for all!

Sandbox Children’s Museum
80 Nassau St
Hilton Head Island,
SC 29928
(843) 842-7645

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City Market Christmas For Kids Celebration Dec. 4, 2021, 11AM-2PM Savannah

Make ornaments. Decorate cookies. Get Grinched (with hair and makeup). Meet Father Christmas and take a picture in the Cinderella carriage tour. All of this, plus face painting, choir music and more add up to a day of fun the whole family can truly enjoy. This is a festive OUTDOOR event in Savannah’s City Market, 11AM-2PM Sat. Dec. 4.

City Market Holiday Open House Fri. Dec. 3, 2021, 6-9PM
Enjoy lights of 500+ luminaria lining the two-block courtyard, Christmas melodies, Father Christmas.

Both these events are free & open to the public.

Fall Harvest Festival 2021 @ Oatland Island Wildlife Center, Savannah

Due to COVID-19, this year’s Cane Grinding we will be implementing measures to support social distancing guidelines.

Please check back for the updated schedule of events.

​​​​​Celebrate Georgia’s diverse agricultural traditions during Oatland Island Wildlife Center’s annual cane grinding event. Centered around Oatland’s 1800’s Heritage Homesite, history comes alive with old-time music, demonstrations and cane-boiling. See how “it was back then” amidst the sights and sounds of an old-fashioned fall gathering.​

Children young and old will enjoy social distance conscious demonstrations, take home crafts, live music and other fun presentations as you venture back through history.​

Oatland Island’s Fall Harvest and Cane Grinding Festival is Nov. 13 2021, 10AM-4PM.

ALL DAY Special Event Pricing
Adult Admission $7
Child/Senior/Military Admission $5

Learn more here. 

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Toddler Museum Tours, Art Activity @ Telfair Museums’ Jepson Center, Tues. Nov. 16

Once a month, Telfair Museums invites their youngest patrons for story time, a special tour and an art activity. This month, inspired by Jepson Center’s ongoing exhibit, Finding Freedom, you are invited to create your own fabric sun print.

Grab your masks and meet in the Jepson Center Eckburg Atrium at 11AM Tues. Nov. 16
$5 per child
Adult members free
Adult non-members $12.
Details here.

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Jepson Center
207 W. York St.
Savannah, GA 31401

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