Dear Madrona School parents,
For those of you who took the opportunity to attend our strings concert last week, you know how moving it was. The outdoor setting, the fact that we had probably not attended a concert in over a year, and the students who truly rose to the occasion after a school year of many absences and upsets to our routines all were ingredients for a magical event. Thank you, Justine Jeanotte, for creatively working with our students, whether in person or remote, for your patience with never knowing who would attend class on any given day, and for your positive attitude during a trying year. Your skill and expertise were clearly on display. Our music program, consisting of violin, viola and cello lessons, is one of the many things that makes our education special. I am so glad our students had an opportunity to show our community the hard work they have put in this year.
Sincerely, Jocelyn Waite
Head of School
Mini Magic Challenge, Weeks of May 11 and May 18
The Madrona Mini Magic Challenge is a weekly activity where community members seek to infuse their own home and our shared virtual community life with a bit of fun. It is open to all and is designed to offer the possibility of a little bit of fun, playfulness, creativity and shared inspiration to our collective experience as we settle in to a longer period at home.
We’re running this theme for two weeks: Your favorite book character! Or, if you can’t choose, a character from the book you are reading now. How did you interpret this theme? See below for our entries, and click on an image to get title and author information (if you can’t guess!).
From Alden, in honor of the book Enclave, by Ann Aguirre
Deuce
Born in an enclave
Down deep in a hole
Deuce was a huntress
And would play her role
She was banished to topside
With a boy named Fade
And through these experiences
Unbreakable bonds were made
Amazingly, they killed the freaks
Both rotten and with lesions
Our deadly future is their past
Bioengineering should never use ferromagnesian
They made it through the ruins of Gotham
But two more with them in the woods
Stalker, Tegan, Fade, and Deuce
Would make it safely to Salvation
Mini Magic Challenge, Week of April 20
Announcing the Madrona School Mini Magic Challenge: As we settle into a longer period of at home learning we wanted to offer the possibility of a little bit of fun, playfulness, creativity and shared inspiration to our collective experience. The Madrona Mini Magic Challenge will be a weekly activity where community members seek to infuse their own home and our shared virtual community life with a bit of fun.
Each week there will be a new theme announced. Everyone in the community (current students and families, alums and friends of the school) is welcome to participate. There are no rules. You simply work with the theme to either paint, draw, photograph, craft or make a related offering. The theme is designed for families to collaborate or older students to work alone. It need not take more than an hour (except for those who go wild).
Our first week's theme is "flowers". They can be real or created, one or a field full. Using either the natural world or your imagination or both, use the theme of flower(s) to make some "mini magic" for Madrona School!
From Sofia
Madrona School Alphabet (U)
‘U’ is for Madrona School’s unhurried approach to beginning school. Our youngest students attend Madrona with their parents or caregivers as a part of our parent-child program. This unique once-weekly class allows children a gentle, warm and nurturing introduction to school as a social setting outside of their homes, and it provides a community for their caregivers too. We offer a warm snack, lots of time to play with our open-ended and natural toys both indoors and out, a circle time with songs and story and some parent education. It's a mini-version of our preschool and kindergarten classes, in effect, and serves to introduce families to Waldorf education, as well as support them in creating a rich, nurturing home environment. As a parent, you'll find yourself learning songs for transitions that you'll still sing years later! This class is also often the beginning of a class community , and some of our grade school students (and their parents!) "met" in parent-child.
