Grade 5/6 Clean-up their Act
Limpieza – end-of day clean-up – is one of many beautiful traditions at MFS. The whole school pitches in to take care of our campus, from sweeping the meeting floor to scrubbing toilets. It’s a powerful lesson in stewardship and teamwork, and also...
Caminata – It’s for the Birds!
This year’s Caminata – the annual parent-fundraiser Walkathon – was a marvelous success. As always, parents, teachers, students, meeting members and the community came out in force to hike 11km up up up to Vista Verde Lodge at San Gerardo, with...
The mountain shivered
A series of poetry/storywriting seminars led by Joe Heithaus (who recently wrote the New York Times article about Monteverde) let writers from ages 13 to 83 stretch and bare our souls. We produced some pretty good stuff, but none better than this perspective on the...
March Newsletter – Presidential Visit
Yes, that is the President of Costa Rica visiting our school! Inspired by our school’s rich history of Peace as well as our national reputation for excellence, the President and First Laady enjoyed playing and visiting with our students during a surprise trip...
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