At the annual Winter Concert on December 16, students preschool to fifth grade demonstrated creative self-expression through the arts. Students created visual art work such as paintings, drawings, wooden holiday houses, and moral hero bottle dolls. They sang songs from a variety of…
Creativity with textile arts is a hallmark of Isa Stead, Mount Madonna School (MMS) parent, elementary science lab assistant and first grade dance teacher. In addition to sewing, dyeing fabric, felting wool, and spinning yarn, Stead creates weavings, small and large scale,…
Second and third grade students recently made bottle doll representations of their “moral heroes” in preparation for the class’ Moral Hero Living Museum on Tuesday, Dec. 13 in the afternoon. Come check out their inspiring research, learning and creativity!
Again this year, students from both lower and upper school came together and contributed to a Día de Los Muertos ofrenda (altar) in the Spanish classroom! Each class created a specific piece to add to the ofrenda and many brought items from home…
On the first day of school, first graders generated and discussed what rules they wanted for their class. Days later, the students chose a rule they were interested in illustrating and worked cooperatively or some solo, in illustrating that rule through bright…
All participate. Choose a section of a song (no more than 90 seconds) that you like and are capable to share. Avoid lyrics with profanity, put downs of cultural, gender, ethnic or religious groups, or that contain explicit sexual descriptions or violent…
Update: The Hall of Stories The sixth graders, as part of Michelle Beske’s English class, wrote their first novels. The students wrote as much as possible, every day, for 30 consecutive days (inspired by “Nanowrimo,” the national novel writing month that takes…
March is Women’s History Month! When the twelfth graders in Mount Madonna School’s American Women’s History class got together to brainstorm ideas for celebrating Women’s History Month, they came up with an interesting and creative way to raise awareness among their peers,…
The Western Snowy Plover, a “cute little shorebird” that lives along the California coast, is the subject of Shore Wars: The Shore Awakens, an educational movie written, filmed, edited and produced by Mount Madonna School (MMS) fifth grade students. On Friday, April…
From mariachi and marimba to flamenco, from Dia de los Muertos to the Running of the Bulls, empañadas to tortillas, and songs celebrating the Earth, childhood and more – elementary students at Mount Madonna School (MMS) have spent recent months engaged in…
