Santa Cruz Symphony Guests Visit MMS Fifth Grade Students
A great hands-on presentation from Santa Cruz Symphony representatives; helping to excited students for their visit to the symphony this
A great hands-on presentation from Santa Cruz Symphony representatives; helping to excited students for their visit to the symphony this
We have confirmed our school and non-school days for the upcoming 2016-2017 school year. Please review the dates in
Naturalist and wilderness advocate, John Muir, tells us: “Everybody needs beauty… places to play in and pray in, where nature
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!”
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. 
‘ It does not require many words to speak the truth .’
Santa Cruz Sentinel, 12/10/2015, “Mount Madonna students stand up for snowy plovers,” by Donna Jones. Photos by Shmuel Thaler. Read the story
Earlier this week fifth grade students celebrated Thanksgiving “colonial” style, preparing and feasting on Hasty pudding, hardtack, cornbread, chef Nate stone soup, Washington’s applie pie, pumpkin pie, gingersnaps, colonial macaroons, pound cake, potato balls, mulled cider and liberty tea!
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!
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.
