We hope you had the chance to attend the powerful Creative Writing Reading this past week! Mount Madonna’s talented high school students shared an impressive array of humorous, reflective and poignant literary works. Huge thanks to English and Creative Writing teacher teacher…
In addition to time spent in The Factory, Mount Madonna School (MMS) makers’ space, elementary students at MMS also engage in wide variety of hands-on STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics) projects in their own classrooms on a regular basis. One…
In the documentary The Music of Strangers, musician Yo-Yo Ma says, “I’m always trying to figure out at some level who I am and how I fit in the world, which I think is something that I share with seven billion other people.”…
Jill VanGee, from the Santa Cruz Symphony, visited Mount Madonna School’s fourth and fifth grade students to educate them on the families of the orchestra and, in particular, the intricacies and unique qualities of the violin and viola. VanGee demonstrated different techniques associated with…
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…
