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Technology & Screen Time: A Montessori Approach

You may have heard that some the top names in technology are sending their kids to “low-tech” schools, and you may have heard about research showing the negative effects of screen time on children as they grow. On the other hand, you may worry about your child keeping up with technological skills or missing out on social opportunities or “educational” content.

IMA’s Adolescent Guide, Ms. Allison, will lead a discussion about Montessori approaches to technology at all ages, and will share information and new research on the effects of screens and social media on brain development. She will offer ideas for alternatives to screen time and ways to help your child develop a healthy relationship with technology.

 

Technology & Screen Time: A Montessori Approach

Tuesday, December 19, 5:30 pm
Open to the public — bring your friends!
Drinks and refreshments will be served.
Family-Teacher Organization meeting to follow at 6:30 pm.

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IMA Supplies Drive for Briarpatch

Dear IMA Families and Friends,

The Adolescent Community at Isthmus Montessori Academy is holding a Supplies Drive to benefit homeless youth at Briarpatch. Briarpatch is an organization that serves at-risk youth and families in various ways, particularly in the area of homelessness. One of our IMA community parents helps run their Transitional Housing program, so we wanted to get involved and help provide supplies for the young people who are living there. You can learn more about this program here.

We are asking for supplies (a specific list is below) rather than most foods, because more resources are available for food, like food stamps and food pantries. Homeless people, especially teenagers, are in need of the sort of things they cannot purchase with a Quest/foodstamps card. We also can show them that we care about their well-being by providing the specific items they need.

Our supplies drive will run through the end of this week — March 10. Any supplies you can donate will be delivered directly to Briarpatch next week. You can drop supplies off in the bins outside our AD classroom.

Thank you so much for your consideration and kindness. Please contact Ms. Allison with any questions or stop by our classroom.

 

Best wishes,
Ms. Allison and the Adolescent Community

 

Items Needed — all clothing should be new, not used

  • Anti-diarrhea tablets
  • Bandaids and other portable first aid items
  • Bath Towels
  • Bras (sizes 32-36)
  • Bug spray
  • Bus passes (youth & adult)
  • Combs / brushes
  • Flashlights with batteries
  • Food gift cards ($10-25)
  • Grocery gift cards
  • Hair picks
  • Hoodies
  • Lip balm
  • Men’s and women’s socks, short and long
  • Nail clippers
  • Pepper spray
  • Q-tips
  • Rain covers / rain shields
  • Rain gear
  • Razors
  • Ready-to-eat, non-perishable food items (no can goods — bars, ramen, jerky, candy, etc)
  • Shoes (durable and weather appropriate, any size)
  • Shorts
  • Sun screen
  • Tee shirts
  • Tissues
  • Triple antibiotic ointment
  • Twin sheet sets
  • Umbrellas
  • Washcloths
  • Wet wipes
  • Women’s hygiene products (tampons and pads)
  • Women’s underwear (sizes 6, 7, 8, 9)
  • 2600mAh Portable Mobile USB Power Bank External Battery Charger (for cell phone backup)

Hair products, more specifically:

  • As I Am Coconut Cowash Conditioner
  • Blue Magic hair grease
  • Doo-gro Jamaican black castor oil leave-in conditioner
  • Duke Waves & Fades black durag
  • Luster’s pink lotion
  • OGX Moroccan Argan oil
  • Satin sleeping caps (all sizes)
  • Shea Moisture brand shampoo, leave-in conditioner, African black soap, 100% pure oils, Control Friz, Yucca & Plantain anti-Breakage Strengthening Masque, Superfruit Comples 10-in-1 Renewal System Hair Mask
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IMA STEAM (Science Technology Engineering Arts and Mathematics) Fair

Dear IMA Family & Friends:

Please join the Isthmus Montessori Academy Adolescent Community for a STEAM (Science Technology Engineering Arts and Mathematics) Fair on Wednesday, March 1, at 1:00 in the Adolescent classroom.

IMA’s Adolescent Students will present their original research and inventions, mathematics and biology projects, and research on historical and contemporary scientists.

We’ll also be serving science-themed snacks.

We hope you will stop by and take a look at what we’ve been learning!

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IMA’s Edible Schoolyard and Garden

Dear IMA Families,

We’re thrilled to be working with FarmRaiser this year, selling organic seeds from High Mowing Organic Seeds to raise money for Isthmus Montessori Academy’s edible schoolyard and garden.

Our fundraising goal is $500. This sale only lasts through February 24, so we hope you’ll get started right away! You can purchase products by visiting this link.

Products will be sent home with families, or can be picked up at school, on March 3, 2017. If you are interested in volunteering on Distribution Day, let me know.

Tips for Great Sales:

Share the link to our online market with family and friends. You can write an email explaining your FarmRaiser and direct them to our link to support us.

Post the link on social media and ask people to share, too!

Don’t forget about the donation option! Many people would rather just make a cash pledge. We love donations and 90% comes to the school!

This fundraiser is all about supporting healthy eating, and helping our children learn about how things grow! We’re so excited to engage our students in conversations around nutrition and health and know they will be great community advocates for a healthy lifestyle as they sell their products.

Thank you for your help in making this our most successful fundraiser yet!

 

Sincerely,

Allison Bloom
Adolescent Guide

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Adolescent Community Upcoming Events

The Adolescent Community would like to invite you to our upcoming events:

Presentation on Ancient Greece

Friday, December 16, 8:30 AM and 2:00 PM

Adolescent Holiday Sale
featuring handmade decorations, gifts, crafts, and festive music

Monday–Friday, December 19–23, 3:00–3:30 PM

We hope you can join us for presentations on various aspects of Ancient Greece — we’ve learned a lot in our History and Humanities seminar this semester and would love to share what we’ve learned with you!

Students and adults are welcome to come to our Holiday Sale. Items will be a range of prices and will make perfect gifts and decorations for your holidays.

Please contact Ms. Allison with any questions!

Best wishes,

The IMA Adolescent Community

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IMA Ancient Greece Fair

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Dear IMA families,

The Adolescent Community has been studying Ancient Greece for our History and Humanities seminar. We would like to present some of what we’ve learned to you at our Ancient Greece Fair, today, Friday November 18, 2016.

We will have poster presentations about the Gods and Goddesses, some of them made by Elementary students who’ve joined in our research, and other presentations about other aspects of Greek life. You can expect to see Greek costumes, read a “day in the life” story of a Greek girl, and enjoy some Ancient Greek snacks!

Feel free to stop by the Adolescent classroom starting at 1:00 pm; poster presentations begin at about 2:00. Everyone is welcome!

 

Ms. Allison and the Adolescent Class

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Montessori Students Raise Chickens To Learn Business And Civics Lessons

IMA was featured on Wisconsin’s WMTV, NBC15 television station this week, in a story titled Montessori Students Raise Chickens To Learn Business And Civics Lessons.

The video features IMA adolescent student Sophie Griffith-Oh, and the story features Allison Bloom, IMA’s Adolescent Program teacher.

Allison Bloom, the teacher overseeing the project, says students are encouraged to explore and pursue their own interests.

“They’re learning all the basics of business,” she said. “A little bit about farming and biology and all of these things too.”

One of the biggest lessons of the project ended up being in civic engagement. While developing the project, students learned their school is in a zone that doesn’t allow chicken raising. The students had to work with city officials to get the city ordinance amended, so they could properly take care of the chickens on school property.

“The civics lesson was an amazing bonus to that because these students really feel if something needs to happen or they want something to happen, they feel empowered to do it themselves,” Bloom said.

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School Spotlight: Chickens Provide Civics, Other Lessons for Isthmus Montessori Students

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IMA was featured in the Wisconsin State Journal this week, in a story titled School Spotlight: Chickens Provide Civics, Other Lessons for Isthmus Montessori Students.

The story features Sophie Griffith-Oh from IMA’s adolescent class, Clarity Watson from IMA’s elementary class, and Allison Bloom, IMA’s adolescent teacher.

Allison Bloom, who works as a guide in the adolescent-aged room, said the hands-on experience taught students about biology, physics, husbandry, carpentry and diplomacy, and they will delve into math as the project evolves. It also included a lesson about death, since some of the eggs did not result in successful hatches.

The school has applied to become Madison’s first public Montessori school, and Bloom cited the chicken project as an example of what older students can achieve through its curriculum.

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