Santa Cruz Sentinel: Nigerian Educator Inspires Mount Madonna Students
Santa Cruzs Sentinel and MercuryNews.com, 2/5/2013, “Nigerian educator inspires Mount Madonna students,” story by Donna Jones, photos by Dan Coyro.
Santa Cruzs Sentinel and MercuryNews.com, 2/5/2013, “Nigerian educator inspires Mount Madonna students,” story by Donna Jones, photos by Dan Coyro.
Visitors to the third grade classroom on a recent afternoon were greeted by an array of modern day and historical figures, including: former President Abraham Lincoln, Mother Teresa, Pocahontas, Benjamin Banneker, Dr. Temple Grandin, and Eleanor Roosevelt. Each third grader chose an individual as a “moral hero” to study and later personify for the classroom presentation.
Peace activist and educator Dr. Emmanuel Ande Ivorgba, founder of the Creative Minds International Academy (CMIA) in Jos, Nigeria, will be a special guest at Mount Madonna School on Monday, February 4.
Nine-year-olds Corey Mensinger and Ronan Lee each picked up the end of a short redwood log and carried it a
“Try to hold still,” urges a sophomore girl sitting across from a classmate, as she carefully wipes a Vaseline ribbon along her friend’s hairline, framing her face with a shiny outline. Next, she begins placing wet, pre-cut strips of a material resembling cloth bandages or mummy wrappings inside the shiny perimeter, across her friend’s forehead and around her eyes, nose and mouth.
Chess Club has started and all middle school students are invited to join! This is for both experienced and inexperienced players. So if you want to learn, this is your chance.
A few of the elementary kids have also joined, and could use some help and challenges from more experienced players. We meet most Mondays from 3:30 to 5:00pm in PD’s room at the upper campus. See Danielle in the office if you have any questions.
Mount Madonna School invites you to its high school production of Fiddler on the Roof , January 25-27 at the Hawks’ Nest Theater. Evening performances are planned for Friday and Saturday, January 25 and 26 at 7:00pm; and a matinee show on Sunday, January 27 at 2:00pm. Tickets are $15 for adults and $10 for students under 18; all seats are reserved. To purchase tickets, call (408) 847-2717.
A glue stick in one hand, and a brightly-colored silk flower in the other, the dark-haired girl purses her lips in concentration and carefully applies glue to the flower bottom before placing it on the mask before her. The girl, a first grade student at Mount Madonna School, is working with her class on decorating skull masks as part of their Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) studies and celebration.
Spring Soccer Season – taking sign ups now!
Come play co-ed Soccer with Coach Carson (Cecily 3rd, Indigo 8th, Zoe 11th).
Congratulations to the Cast of “Alice in Wonderland, Jr.” It was a delightful, fun-filled show! Thank you to the great Performing Arts team who led the way and brought out your special talents. Sampad Kachuck, Mayana Lisboa, Leah Parker, Girija Beavers, Erika Rosendale (’05) and Dennis Randolph ~ great job!
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