Santa Cruz Sentinel: Mount Madonna Presents Winter Concert
Santa Cruz Sentinel, 12/14/2016, Coast Lines, “Mount Madonna Presents Winter Concert.” Read the article (scroll half-way down)
Santa Cruz Sentinel, 12/14/2016, Coast Lines, “Mount Madonna Presents Winter Concert.” Read the article (scroll half-way down)
BayAreaforSale.com, January 2017, “Practicing Experiential Learning at Mount Madonna School,” by Marina I. Jokic. Read the story
On a sunny morning, not long ago, along a trail crisscrossing Mount Madonna School’s (MMS) campus forest and meadows, preschool, kindergarten and second grade students gathered to listen to MMS Parent and Santa Clara County Parks Interpreter, Lynda Will. She told the…
IIf you judge people, you have no time to love them. These words, attributed to Saint Mother Teresa, served as the inspiration for third grader Sienna Liddicoat to research Mother Teresa’s work of tirelessly helping others. “She did everything to help the…
At the annual Winter Concert on December 16, students preschool to fifth grade demonstrated creative self-expression through the arts. Students created visual art work such as paintings, drawings, wooden holiday houses, and moral hero bottle dolls. They sang songs from a variety of…
Recently in my home there have been many discussions about everyone pitching in to help with the chores. The conversation with my daughters, Sophia (5th) and Alyssa (7th), usually start something like, “I hate to be a nag, but…”. The response I’m typically met with…
Creativity with textile arts is a hallmark of Isa Stead, Mount Madonna School (MMS) parent, elementary science lab assistant and first grade dance teacher. In addition to sewing, dyeing fabric, felting wool, and spinning yarn, Stead creates weavings, small and large scale,…
The three pillars of Mount Madonna School (MMS), academic excellence, creative self-expression and positive character development are fully visible in the fourth grade. From math games to research, to reading, writing and artistic “creating,” learning is happening in all subject areas. With…
Second and third grade students recently made bottle doll representations of their “moral heroes” in preparation for the class’ Moral Hero Living Museum on Tuesday, Dec. 13 in the afternoon. Come check out their inspiring research, learning and creativity!
Santa Cruz Sentinel, 11/20/2016, Coast Lines, “Mount Madonna Names New Board Members.” Read the article (scroll about half-way down)