Learning and Teaching: First Graders Share Native Animal Research
Mount Madonna School (MMS) first graders can tell you a lot about some of the animals native to Santa Cruz County, including wild turkeys, barn owls and rattlesnakes, following several weeks of research and presentations to their peers, parents and teachers.
Photos by Cassia Laffin and Leigh Ann Clifton
-Name, age, grade, city of residence
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Mount Madonna School fifth grader Simone McIntyre has entered her mixed-media work, The Ocean of Stars , in an art contest organized by the California Coastal Commission. 
Pictured at left: brothers PK Diffenbaugh, PhD, ’95, and Noah Diffenbah, PhD, ’92; and Marm Kilpatrick, PhD, ’90.