Mount Madonna School’s (MMS) high school production of “Mamma Mia!” was a smashing success. All three shows were packed, and Sunday’s sing-along was so much fun. Thank you to every single audience member who came out to be a part of the…
Growing Up in Santa Cruz, February 2023. “The Excavators on the Playground,” by Lisa Catterall. I spent three years involved in writing and defending the California Preschool Foundations. State-sponsored preschool is a marvelous concept, and there were hundreds of well-intentioned people who…
Watsonville Patch.com, 1/30/2023, “Watsonville Star Student Is Student Government President,” by Bea Karnes. WATSONVILLE, CA — Star Students are found in classrooms, on concert and theater stages and at debate lecterns, and out in the community doing good things to make life…
Santa Cruz Sentinel, 1/27/2023, “Mount Madonna School presents ‘Mamma Mia!” by Aric Sleeper Downloadable pdf
Recently, Mount Madonna School (MMS) third grade students learned about ecology by building their own biome dioramas. The project included a unit study on the world’s six different biome regions: tundra, coniferous, deciduous, tropical rainforest, grasslands and deserts. Students learned how to…
High school students at Mount Madonna School (MMS) – are preparing for their upcoming production of “Mamma Mia!” in many ways, including a colorful, Grecian mosaic-inspired art and writing project. Each student was assigned to create an artistic rendering and brief written…
On February 11, 2023, Mount Madonna School (MMS) will host a Model United Nations (Model UN or MUN) conference. Titled Climate Justice for All: Addressing Inequality, this conference will focus on issues related to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly…
Each year, the fifth grade class at Mount Madonna School (MMS) focuses on human rights through a deep and extended language arts curriculum that uses the young adult novel “Esperanza Rising” by Pam Munoz Ryan. The novel centers around a young girl…
Aptos Times, 1/15/2023, “Madagascar Jr: The Show Must Go On.” Photos by John Welch.
