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Calendar of Events

8th grade class trip Saturday, May 17th

Arts Days, May 22nd and May 23rd

8th grade graduation, May 23rd from 2:15 p.m. To 3:30 p.m.

7th and 8th grade dinner dance Nokomis Community Center from 6:30 to 9:00, May 23rd.

Early Education Calendar of Events

End of year presentations by students with a picnic lunch to follow, May 23 at 9:30AM

Summer Camp starts June 9.

Island Village Montessori Preschool Summer Camp 2008

Ms. Leanne and Ms. Rene’ have been working together the past 6 years creating an inventive and exciting summer program.  We have many weekly visitors from the community; the children learn about many different cultures, countries, cook, create beautiful artwork and play many indoor and outdoor games.

A $30 application fee will secure your child in this fun filled summer program.  All preschool children and their siblings through 1st grade are invited to join us.  We provide different actives to the different age groups to ensure everyone’s enjoyment and ability.

A minimum of a two week commitment is required; camp will run for 8 weeks.  The camp day begins at 8:30-3 ($155 per wk) or half days 8:30-12 ($105per wk), Monday through Friday.  Camp starts June 9th.

Join us for great fun during the dog days of summer! Call today.

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Island Village Montessori Summer Camp 2008
"Around the World"
Kindergarden (Starting) to 3rd grade (Finishing)

Dates:
June 9th to August 1st

Times:
7:30am to 3:30pm CAMP
3:30pm to 5:30pm AFTERCARE

Cost:
CAMP
$125 per week
$10 discount for siblings
$25 registration fee per child
*Price includes: morning snack, field trip, supplies, and free camp shirt.

AFTERCARE
$35 per week per child
*Price includes: afternoon snack, supplies, and activities.

Activities:
field trips, arts, crafts, guest speakers, games, themed events

Field trips include:
Gwiz, Bowling, Beach, Movies, Skating, Jungle Gardens, and More!

    Island Village Montessori Summer Camp application is now available. Summer Camp is for current and enrolling IVMS students from Kindergarten through3rd Grade. Applications must be filled out and turned in, with payment, by May 15, 2008. A $30 registration fee must be paid to secure your child's spot in the summer program.

    If you have any questions please email Jason Hunter at jasonhunter@islandvillage.org

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The 2006-2007 Voluntary Pre Kindergarten (VPK) school readiness rate for Island Village Montessori has been posted.

IVM south campus 21 VPK children tested had a total score of 271 out of 300 points.

IVM north campus 6 VPK children tested had a score of 283 out of 300 points.

Additional information about the testing and score may be found at earlylearning@fldoe.org.

Congratulations to the entire south and north campus preschool staff.

What is Special About Island Village?

Kudos to our drama group and choir. The performance at Venice Little Theater was amazing. Especially so, considering the little performance time at the theater itself. This world-class performance was another example of how Montessori children develop self-expression as they work together as a community.

Our music and art departments are organizing Arts Days in May. IVMS will spend two days in celebration of the arts. Students will perform, display visual art, enjoy guest visits from local artists and performers, write, dance, and make arts and crafts. Arts Days are a special time to celebrate the arts as the school year winds down. IVMS also students attend art, music, and dance classes during the year, allowing for a balanced curriculum of academics and creativity.

In addition to our attention to the arts at IVMS, we also emphasize foreign language. Using live instruction plus the Rosetta Stone language software, our students study a foreign language of choice in the upper grades: Spanish, French, Latin, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Italian, Russian, German, and more. In the lower grades, we have certain classes where educators who are native speakers use Spanish everyday. At our north campus, we are lucky enough to have a majority of our staff who are bilingual in Spanish and English.

Finally, IVMS stresses the development of self-directed learners, from our early childhood program to our middle school. Students make choices and learn to manage their time starting with daily and weekly work plans. At the middle school level, the students must organize three-week contracts that are similar to college syllabi. The students are awarded the distinction of "Self-directed Learner" from the faculty as a recognition of mastery at this new level of responsibility and freedom.

Responsibility and the freedom to choose are two cornerstones of the Montessori system of education. This is what Dr. Montessori called "Education for Life." As IVMS students master the ability to become responsible for their education, they are given more freedom to make choices. It is this process that will prepare a student most usefully for adult life.

Integrating responsibility and the freedom to choose with the arts and foreign language, provide a well-rounded preparation for both high school and college. For those students not going on to college, these abilities will support success in vocational careers as well. Most of all, students will learn to be the actor in their own lives rather than wait for life to happen to them. This is probably the most important lesson of all.

"If education is to be an aid to civilization, it cannot be carried out by emptying the schools of knowledge (wisdom), of character, of discipline, of social harmony, and, above all, of freedom." - Maria Montessori

Remembering the Original Vision

Island Village Montessori School opened its doors on August 13, 2001 to 175 students as the first charter Montessori school in Sarasota County.

In 2001, our vision was to create a public Montessori elementary program open to all children regardless of income, race, or ethnic background.

A History of Our School

• In 2001, we also opened an early childhood program to serve children from the age of three, serving 35 children.
  
  
• In 2003, we partnered with Children First to give a Montessori opportunity to families not able to afford a private tuition before kindergarten.
  
  
• In 2005, we elected to participate in Florida's Voluntary Pre-K program to help families afford the cost of the four year-old year.
  
  
• In 2005, we opened a middle school on our Venice campus as well as satellite Montessori programs in Sarasota.
  
  
• In 2005, we began developing an online teacher training program for Montessori teachers called Montessori Live.
  
  
• In 2005, we began developing a student tracking program for Montessori schools called Montalign.
  
  
• In 2007, we have over 500 students in our programs combined.

What is the Vision of IVMS Today?

• Developing public Montessori programs open to all children regardless of income, race, or socio-ethnic background.
• Working toward the highest standards in public and Montessori education.
• Being a model of responsible leadership for the community; sharing best practice with the world through affordable professional development programs.
• Creating a school of optimal size where a sense of family makes students feel safe, and will not allow them to fall between the cracks; where families choose a point of view rather than simply attending a school.
• Becoming a community where individuals are equally important and where differences are respected; creating a sense of belonging for all.
• Connecting children to their civilization through the Montessori cosmic curriculum; training gardeners of the human potential who contribute to a peaceful world.
• Working with students to foster independence, self-motivation, self-discipline, creativity, responsibility, citizenship, autonomy, competence, tolerance, and kindness.
• Treating education as a holistic journey of self-discovery; establishing patterns for lifelong learning; focusing on the process of learning.
• Developing sister schools worldwide in an effort to make cultural studies real to our students. Our school currently has partnership with schools in Vladimir, Russia and Perpignan, France through the Sister Cities program.