ENRICHED LEARNING EXPERIENCES
Consistent with our mission of authentic learning, IDEAL School provides enriched learning experiences through Special Events, Off-Campus Learning experiences, Skype Events, Guest Expert Speakers, and Learning Lab.
SPECIAL EVENTS
OFF CAMPUS LEARNING
SKYPE SPEAKER EXPERIENCES
EXPERT SPEAKER EXPERIENCES
LEARNING LAB
SPECIAL EVENTS
The school year is full of joyful special events. Please like and view our IDEAL School Facebook page to see photos and videos of these events from the past school year. These special events include activities such as:
- Theme dress days
- Fabulous Friday Entry
- Family Fun Day at Calypso Bay Waterpark
- Family Night Out at Local Restaurants
- Trunk or Treat Halloween Party
- Field Day
- FundFit Events
- Special Man in my Life Dance ( Father/Daughter Dance)
- 100th Day of School Celebration
- Multiple Intelligence Museum (Student MI Statues Come to life)
- Multiple Intelligence Museum (Student MI Statues Come to life)
- Music Concerts
- Sport Teams Games
- 80’s Day
- Trampolinathon Field Trip Fundraiser
- Gratitude Feast
- Spirit Week
- Club Luna Dance Party
- 101th day dog show
- Emotional Intelligence Monthly Parent Share Circles with School Founder Wendy Soderman
- Mindful Family Nights
- Parenting Workshops
- Magical Math Day
- 50's day
- Community Flashmob Dances
- Middle School Ted Talk Conferences
- Middle School STEAM Intensive Showcase
- Networking for Success
- Daily Mindful Meditation Education
- IMS off campus Lunch
OFF CAMPUS LEARNING
As the students gain confidence and experience and move into middle school, they have the opportunity to have more advanced off campus experiences.
This includes trips like a weeklong adventure in Costa Rica working with expert scientists at a Sea Turtle Research Center or an 8-day experience at the Island School and Marine Research Center in Cape Eleuthera, Bahamas. These trips include teachers, guides and students and every day is like a “National Geographic Special”, full of incredible activities like: capturing, tagging and releasing stingrays and sharks! These field trips are unbelievable, full of rich learning experiences that the students treasure forever.
Field Trips are an integral part of the enriched program at IDEAL School. These wonderful experiences begin with local trips in Kindergarten through Grade 2. Overnight field trip experiences begin in Grade 3, with a 3 day trip to the oldest city in the USA, St. Augustine. This trip which includes teachers, guides, parents and students brings the third grade social studies curriculum to life. Grades 4 and 5 head to the Tampa area for 3 or 4 days to experience the spectacular zoo, the science museum (MOSI) and Busch Gardens.
- Theme dress days
- Bedners Farm
- Flagler Museum
- Science Museum
- South Florida Fair
- Palm Beach Zoo
- Florida Panthers Sport/ Science Field Trip
- St. Augustine
- Tampa/ St. Petersberg
- Sea Camp Key Largo
- Kennedy Space Center sleep over
- SeaWorld sleep over
- Costa Rica
- Grand Canyon/Las Vegas Experience
- Island School and Cape Eleuthera Research Institute
- IMS Dude Ranch Trip
SKYPE SPEAKER EXPERIENCES
Skyping using IDEAL School’s Advanced Panaboard technology is an amazing experience that brings such a wide variety of expertise into the classroom.
Examples of Skype Experiences at IDEAL School for Advanced Learning include Molly the Fire Safety Dog at the Keep Kids Fire Safe Foundation, the USS Battleship Missouri Memorial Association at Pearl Harbor, the Digital Ocean Explorers Research Team at Timor Leste, Captain Barrington Irving in the Flying Classroom and Cameron Young at the Snake Conservatory.
Skype Expert Speaker Experiences add a further dimension to our program. These experiences are used to compliment the curriculum and give the students the opportunity to get a more complete understanding of what it is like in the “working world” they will be entering in the not-to-distant future. These speakers typically include: authors, scientists, athletes, inventors, business people, attorneys, engineers, actors, politicians, etc.
EXPERT SPEAKER EXPERIENCES
As part of the “Heart to Heart” character and virtues program at IDEAL, expert speakers who have faced or are facing enormous life challenges also present to the students.
Examples include: cancer survivors, people with ALS, Holocaust survivors, and those that have experienced huge tragedies due to driving under the influence, etc.
