The Mount Madonna School (MMS) senior class is seeking donations of new or gently used clothing for the children of Sri Ram Ashram in Haridwar, India. The Ashram was built and inspired by the late Baba Hari Dass, with support from the…
We hope you had the chance to see HONK! Jr. and the Winter Concert in December! Mount Madonna’s talented preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school students were so entertaining! Fabulous singing, dancing and acting one and all! Parent Encarna Buendia took some…
Growing Up in Santa Cruz, January 2019, “Do College Entrance Exams Help or Hurt Students?” by Brad Kava. Every year more than 7 million high school students pull out their Number 2 pencils and go through a drill about as pleasant as…
Mount Madonna School to host public screenings of the film “The Test and The Art of Thinking” in Santa Cruz (February 7) and Morgan Hill (February 28), offering an inside look at the multibillion-dollar business of SAT/ACT Test Preparation Each year more…
Each year Mount Madonna School (MMS) faculty members create a teaching goal to guide their efforts for the coming school year. In 2017, first grade teacher Cassia Laffin focused on bringing yoga and mindfulness into her classroom. This year, she is helping…
Last week the Mount Madonna School (MMS) fifth grade class had a learning-full day at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. The Aquarium is a “jewel” of a resource, with enthusiastic, knowledgeable docents and outstanding displays, including the popular kelp forest tank and a…
As part of their science curriculum the second grade students at Mount Madonna School have been studying life cycles. Students learned about insect, amphibian and mammal life cycles, and then focused on the monarch butterfly. For this more focused study, the students…
Dear Mount Madonna School Community, The second grade class is hosting their annual food drive in support of the Second Harvest Food Bank to help feed hungry families in our area during the holiday season. There are bins for food donations in…
National Public Radio, 1A program, 11/13/2018, “‘The New Abnormal’: Wildfires And Climate Change.” MMS alumnus Noah Diffenbaugh (’92), climate scientist, Kara J Foundation Professor, Department of Earth System Science, Kimmelman Family Senior Fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University, was…
The students in the elementary school STEAM program, The Factory at Mount Madonna School (MMS), launched into a new level of inventing and making last week when they began using the littleBits platform in class. The littleBits platform was invented by Massachusetts…
