Aptos Times: Students “Sculpt” Blackout Poetry
Aptos Times, 2/1/2021, page 9 “Students Sculpt Blackout Poetry.”
Creative Arts
Remembering History and Sharing Stories
In December and January, Mount Madonna School (MMS) sixth grade students read the novel Number the Stars by Lois Lowry as part of their English 6 class. This historical fiction tells the harrowing story of a Jewish family’s escape from German-occupied Denmark…
Mount Madonna School Hosts Two-Day YOUnivesity for Middle and High School Students
On January 25 and 26 Mount Madonna School (MMS) will launch its first annual YOUniversity learning days. The project was initially conceived as a way to engage students during parent-teacher conferences, however faculty committee organizing the event quickly realized it offers so…
“Sculpting” Blackout Poetry
In Mount Madonna School’s ninth grade Creative Expression class, students have been experimenting with different creative processes and ways of constructing that require them to stretch outside of their comfort zone and work with unusual methods and materials. “Working in this way…
Brushstrokes: Fourth Graders Create Paint Brushes from Natural Objects
Creativity was on display recently, when Mount Madonna School fourth grade students gathered materials found outdoors around their classroom to use as brushes for painting. Their finds included leaves, branch tips from cedar, redwood and pine trees, small flowers, and grasses. They…
What They See: Student Photography
A recent period of remote learning offered ninth grade students an opportunity to brush up on their photography skills and see things from a new perspective, as part of an assignment for their Creative Expression class, co-taught by Angela Willetts and Haley…
Kindergartners Create Cheerful Holiday Wreaths
In mid-November, Mount Madonna School kindergarten students, accompanied by teachers’ assistant Jesuina Smith, visited the beloved redwood Fairy Forest on the campus grounds to gather supplies – including acorns, small redwood branches, sticks, feathers and seed cones – to be used in…
Aptos Times: Art, Poetry and Monsters: Sparking Imagination
Aptos Times, 11/11/2020 “Art, Poetry and Monsters: Sparking Imagination.” Read more
Sugar Skulls, Friendly Games and Electrical Engineering: Fourth Grade’s Creative Curriculum
“La rosa…pan de muerto…tumba decorada…calavera de azucar…cocinar…ofrenda…flor amarilla,” called out Mount Madonna School (MMS) elementary Spanish teacher Luis Hernandez, one by one, as fourth grade students, sitting physically distanced at tables in their outdoor classroom, carefully practiced spelling and writing this new…
Parched
By Lisa Catterall I’ve learned that terror doesn’t happen because some group of people somewhere like Pakistan or Afghanistan simply decide to hate us. It happens because children aren’t being offered a bright enough future that they have a reason to choose…