More than 100 students from Jiangsu Province, China, visited Monrovia Unified (MUSD) as a part of the culture immersion program from Jiangsu Education Services for International Exchange (JESIE). Over four days, these international students visited Mayflower, Plymouth, and Bradoaks Elementary. At Plymouth Elementary, a Mandarin Dual Immersion school, students quickly connected with international students as…
Monrovia’s Plymouth Elementary Celebrates Chinese New Year with a Family Night
The Plymouth Elementary Chinese New Year Family Night is being hosted by their school’s PTA, and the event’s co-chairs have been hard at work creating a fun and entertaining evening for their school. The evening will start with performances from Plymouth students. There will be complimentary tea, hot cocoa, Chinese New Year candies, and oranges…
Monrovia Student Honored by the Make-A-Wish Foundation
Plymouth Elementary kindergarten student Addison Iylah MacLellan, 5, has inspired her family, friends, and doctors with her remarkable resilience and bravery through more than 20 surgeries. She recently celebrated with a family trip to Disneyland sponsored by the benevolent Make-A-Wish Foundation. At birth, Addison was diagnosed with a number of illnesses including hydrocephalus, caudal regression…
Plymouth Elementary Hosts Second Annual Moon and Stars Night
Plymouth Elementary families and students controlled Monrovia High robots, assembled LED circuit postcards from scratch, sampled sweet Chinese mooncakes and watched dual-language Mandarin students perform a classic Chinese tale during the school’s second annual Moon and Stars Night on Sept. 21. This year’s event combined science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics (STEAM) activities with the…