SantaCruzParent.com, We Need YOU: Fifth Grade’s Clean-up Challenge
SantaCruzParent.com, April 22, 2021 newsletter, “We Need YOU: Fifth Grade’s Clean-up Challenge.”
5th Grade Environmental Project
We Need YOU: Fifth Grade’s Clean-up Challenge Runs Through May 1
Mount Madonna School fifth grade students have organized a CLEAN-UP CHALLENGE to inspire and help prevent waste from entering the oceans. The students have begun an online campaign, and are enlisting their peers and entire school community and general public to help…
Donations of Plastic Recycling Needed for Students’ Collaborative Art Sculpture
As part of the 15th annual Summit for the Planet, Mount Madonna School third, fourth, and fifth grade students, guided by art teacher Angela Willetts, have started working on a collaborative sculpture, or sculptures, to bring attention to the plastics that end…
Citizen Advocates, Plastic Pollution and Saving Blue Whales: Buddy Classes’ Conservation Curriculum
Mount Madonna School (MMS) fifth grade students are learning a lot about whales, especially blue whales, this school year. And although these whales are the largest animals to have ever lived on Earth, fifth graders say these endangered ocean giants need help…
Waves of Gratitude and Lower School Learning: Week Seven
National Teacher Appreciation Week began on May 4 and throughout the week our own Mount Madonna School (MMS) teachers were showered with tokens of appreciation and expressions of gratitude from students, parents and colleagues. The special honoring began a day early, on…
Navigating a Brave New Educational Landscape
Faculty and Students Express a Deep Appreciation for Community Bonds On March 27 Mount Madonna School (MMS) teachers and students completed their second week of remote teaching and learning. During this same period, MMS administrators and staff continued to work remotely to…
Slough Science Increases Students’ Understanding of Watersheds, Oceans and Marine Ecosystems
Recently, Mount Madonna School (MMS) fifth and ninth grade students visited the Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve in Watsonville, to learn more about its ecosystem, local watersheds and to conduct plankton and benthic labs. Fifth grade students are studying great white…
Monterey Herald: Students Explore Elkhorn Slough Reserve
Monterey Herald, 2/8/2020, “Students explore Elkhorn Slough Reserve,” by Ashleigh Papp. WATSONVILLE — For students at Watsonville’s Mount Madonna School, learning beyond the confines of the classroom is taken to a new level. Earlier this week, students from fifth and ninth grade…
Santa Cruz Sentinel: Students Explore Elkhorn Slough Reserve
Santa Cruz Sentinel, 2/7/2020, “Students explore Elkorn Slough Reserve; young minds are learning how to connect the dots between local watersheds and the ocean,” by Ashleigh Papp. WATSONVILLE — For students at Watsonville’s Mount Madonna School, learning beyond the confines of the…
Santa Cruz Sentinel, Name Dropping: Students Assist with Cleanup of Cowell Beach
Santa Cruz Sentinel, 12/9/2019, ” Students assist with cleanup of Cowell Beach.” Fifth-grade students and ninth-grade students at Mount Madonna School participated in a cleanup of Cowell Beach on Friday. The fifth graders are studying great white sharks as their in-depth class…