The fifth grade class at Mount Madonna School (MMS) was recently awarded a Disney Friends for Change Youth Grant through
Congratulations to brothers Zach and Riley Wagner for completing the Music Teacher Association of California Certificate of Merit, with Branch Honors (levels 6 and 4, respectively). This program is a series of evaluations comprised of a written theory test, technical performance, sight reading performance and presentation of memorized music selections.
These talented young piano players have earned the honor of playing at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center on Saturday, April 6. The recital is open to the public and begins at 12:30pm. Come hear them play!
Garbed in costume-like fashions made from colorful plastic packaging, aluminum foil, assorted paper products, re-purposed fabric and more, about a
Third grade students happily planted 60 bulbs last fall with the help of parents McKenzie Keith and Dave Willoughby.
“No easy task in that hard pan soil!,” commented third grade teacher Hamsa Heinrich. It’s the second time Heinrich donated a sack full of daffodil bulbs, in hopes the flowers will eventually naturalize on the hill above the Courtside classrooms.
Recently, the students enjoyed the blooms, which are full spring glory!
Duwamish, San, Quechua, Maori, Aborigine, and Haida — these enduring, vibrant and distinct cultures from around the world will be
Colorful and oh, so delicate, Mount Madonna School third graders really enjoyed a recent hands-on chemistry lesson, that engaged them
Banana slugs, opossums, rubber boas, skunks and coyotes are some of the animals that Mount Madonna School (MMS) first graders
Sharing Their Learning: On a recent day in Mount Madonna School’s fourth grade classroom, students presented their Spanish Mission project and reports with third grade students.
Photos by Linda Pope
Santa Cruz Sentinel, 2/6/2014, “Environmentalists plead for plastic bag ban,” story by Shanna McCord, photo by Dan Coyro. Read more: http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/localnews/ci_25073658/environmentalists-plead-scotts-valley-ban-plastic-bags
Dispatched on faraway quests to secure riches and territory for their countries of origin, and fueled by curiosity and courage, the discoveries of early world explorers in the western hemisphere are a standard piece of the fourth grade social studies curriculum at Mount Madonna School (MMS). Recently fourth grade students shared their Explorers Project research in presentations to their classmates, and it was evident that the students had been fully engaged in learning about the explorers’ lives and exploits.
