We hope you're having a lovely Labor Day weekend! We were excited to welcome students back and kick off the Fall semester.
We want to share some reminders for your upcoming week, plus give a glimpse of a few of the happenings in our first three days.
Make plans to attend our
Back to School Night on September 10
and
the
PTA Back to School Family Festival on Saturday, September 21
. There's no school on September 11. Remember to register for our
Ivymount Outreach Fall programs by September 9
. Check out additional details below.
Two school security and safety reminders: if you have a meeting in the building, please bring a valid driver's license or government-issued ID so that you can sign in through the new Visitor Management System. For those dropping off students, please support our safety efforts by using the carpool line.
Most students bring their own lunch, but for those who wish, there are options available. While Ivymount doesn't have a cafeteria, our student businesses provide a variety of healthy offerings, including salads, wraps, subs, quesadillas, breakfast sandwiches, bagels, yogurt, popcorn, and of course, pizza! See the student business section and menu link at the bottom of this newsletter.
Enjoy the rest of your long weekend. We look forward to seeing your students Tuesday.
Sincerely,
Susan Holt,
School Director
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Monday, September 2
No School
Tuesday, September 10
Back to School Night
Wednesday, September 11
Professional Day
No School for students
Monday, September 30
Non-Instructional Day
Friday, October 4
Professional Day
No School for students
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Back to School Night
Attend the B2SN Information Fair from 5:45 pm until 6:15 pm to learn about all the programs Ivymount has to offer. Opening remarks begin at 6:15 pm, followed by Classroom time until 8:00 pm.
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Register Now for Outreach Programs
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Registration is now open for all Outreach Fall 2019 Programs!
View our
Fall Catalog
for details on our Recreational, Educational and Therapeutic Group Programs. All of our programs are led by well-trained and enthusiastic Ivymount and Maddux current and former staff members.
Please register by September 9th!
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MLN Tackles Problem Solving
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The Multi-Learning Needs (MLN) Program has introduced a new curriculum - Talk Aloud Problem Solving (TAPS). TAPS promotes development of problem solving and reasoning skills by teaching students to work together to solve problems.
One student is the “problem solver,” who practices breaking the problem into parts, being careful, and explaining their reasoning. The “active listener” checks the problem solver’s work and looks for mistakes, while helping the problem solver to arrive at the right answer on their own. Eventually, students will learn to play both roles simultaneously, as they solve challenging problems.
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The Ivymount Nursing team would like to thank all the parents who sent in updated health information and completed physician medication order forms for their children for the start of the 2019-20 school year. It is still not too late to send in this information if you haven’t already done so. Medical forms can be accessed on the
family portal
and/or by contacting the nurses directly.
The Ivymount nurses are excited for the start of the new school year and look forward to working with all returning and new students.
Please don’t hesitate to reach out to the nurses if you have any questions or concerns at
nurses@ivymount.org
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The Maryland Center for School Safety and the Cyber and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) are sharing information and other resources with schools. Click to read more:
Cyber Safety for Students.
In addition to this link, the Sarasota County Sheriff's Office in Florida released the graphic below showing 15 mobile applications that parents should know about and how children are using these applications.
If you would like more information on each particular app, you can visit
Sarasota's Twitter page,
where each app is discussed in more detail with some quick videos.
We share this information to help ensure the online safety of the Ivymount community.
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Meet Tim Busch, Anthony Monescalchi, and Carley Sturges, the members of the Adapted Physical Education team at Ivymount. These three instructors focus on building skills and muscles to help every Ivymount student gain important skills upon graduation.
In the gym, they teach skills such as how to strike with a bat or roll over, focusing on locomotor movements and spatial awareness. With the recent renovations to the fitness room, they are able to teach students skills they may need in the workplace. For example, the resistance on a new “tank” piece of equipment can be changed to simulate pushing a cart. The new changes have created an environment that simulates a standard gym, similar to popular gyms like Planet Fitness, which help students become more comfortable in any gym setting.
To keep students motivated, Tim, Anthony, and Carley create attainable goals and targets that connect students’ interests to their learning. For instance, they place pictures that include a student’s interest on a target to maintain student focus. They make every class fun and maintain a positive, high-energy attitude that students feed off of.
Tim, during his five years, says he always feels most rewarded when he sees the students have what he calls the “A-Ha moment,” as they suddenly understand the What and Why of what they’re working on. Anthony, who has been here for over three years, says he enjoys challenging students and finding multiple ways to teach them valuable skills. Carley, who is on her second year at Ivymount, loves to see students make progress, especially in a short time.
Tips for Parents from Ivymount's Adapted Physical Education team
How to keep kids motivated at home?
- Keep your child moving and active
- Movement is movement
- Persistence over perfection
- Make exercising a family affair
- Nightly walks
- Family hikes
- Find something active and fun to do
- SkyZone
- Swimming pool
- Bowling
- Adapted sports
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LOOKING FOR ROOM PARENTS
We are looking for parents and guardians who are interested in being room parents. Room Parents do not need to attend PTA meetings and can do everything remotely. Click on the button below for more information on being a room parent and to volunteer:
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PTA Back to School
Family Festival
Saturday, September 21
1:30 - 3:30 p.m.
Ivymount Playground
WE NEED PARENTS AND GUARDIANS TO VOLUNTEER IF THEY CAN!
RSVP by September 16
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to attend and/or volunteer
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Ride the trackless train, dance to tunes by our amazing DJ, play yard games and basketball on the blacktop, get a close-up view of a surprise vehicle from our local fire department, and enjoy delicious snacks, including shaved ice.
REMINDER: THIS IS NOT A DROP OFF EVENT. PARENTS AND GUARDIANS MUST REMAIN ON PREMISES TO SUPERVISE.
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Box Tops
You can scan Box Tops and the PTA will earn .10 per scanned Box Top. You’ll need to install the Box Tops app on your phone and look up Ivymount School in order to get started. For more information click on this link:
You can still clip box tops and we will be collecting those soon, so please keep clipping and now scanning! Any questions, please contact Karrin Lukacs at
karrin.lukacs@gmail.com
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Monday - Friday
9:05 - 9:30 a.m.
(Open Tuesday - Friday this week)
Friday
11:45 a.m. - 1 p.m
Monday - Friday
2 - 2:45 p.m.
(Open Tuesday - Friday this week)
Gator Lunch Shop
Monday
11:45 a.m. - 1 p.m.
(Closed this week)
Tuesday lunch delivery
(See updated menu.)
Opens late September
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