Elementary

A Heartfelt Message from MMS Parent and Board Member, Christine Smith

Dear Mount Madonna School Community,

As the holiday season comes to a close and the excitement of a brand new year is in the air, I find myself thinking about gifts.

Helping my youngest embrace the spirit of giving, I sat down with her a few weeks ago to help her choose Christmas gifts for her friends and family.

She said to me, “Mom, this is so hard, trying to figure out what they would like!”

Wings, Feathers, Beaks and Pellets: First and Second Graders Learn About Birds

Like little birds building nests from materials gathered from the surrounding habitat, first and second graders eagerly collected small sticks, acorns, bits of grass and oak leaves to push into clay and dough that they’d fashioned into small, bowl-shaped-nests. This unique hands-on activity was just one piece of a cross-curricular bird study that included learning about identification and field marks, incubation, developmental stages, habitat and adaptations. 

New Literature for Third Grade!

Mount Madonna School third graders spent the dollars they earned as a prize for selling Drive for Schools tickets on new books for their classroom! In addition, many generous parents  bought the class new books at the recent Scholastic Book Fair. so the class is happily enjoying great literature! 

A Whale (Well, Squid) of a Tale: Renowned Oceanographer and Marine Biologist Dr. Edie Widder Visits Mount Madonna School

So many of us, young and younger alike, have read (or at least watched film versions of) Jules Verne’s iconic 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea . Captain Nemo’s underwater adventures are nothing short of legend, steering his Nautilus into the great ocean depths and, to this day, into our imaginations.