Welcome Back

Hello Blackberry Parenting Adults, We are heading into our 3rd week as a community. We are learning about each other and what it means to share a space. We’ve talked about expected/unexpected behaviors in our class, we made a lunch contract, and have played so many games.  We are beginning to understand that mistakes happen, […]

Happy Last Day of School

Hi Blackerry Parenting Adults, Woah did I not know how hard it would be to be running a classroom alone and writing a blog. So apologies for the lack of posts since Mark’s departure.I wanted to do one last post to say how proud I am of your children and how much they have been […]

Oakland Zoo and a big update

Hello Blackberry Families, In science we have finished creating our habitat dioramas. We cannot wait to invite you to our community to view them and read your child’s habitat report. They have been working diligently to create a habitat that consists of many living things. For the most part every diorama has been done independently […]

Field Trip Photos and a BIG Thank you

Hi Blackberry Parents, First we wanted to thank you all for you participation in conferences. It was wonderful to be able to share how well your children are doing. Also thank you for volunteering for our field trip! We appreciate the support!  

100th Day of School

Hello Blackberry Families,   We had such a fun and amazing day celebrating the 100th day of school! We are so happy and grateful for being a part of our community and classroom! Students were so excited and proud to show off their 100 days of school projects. We had many fun activities such as […]

The One Where Everyone is Sick

Hi Blackberry parenting adults, This week we had a lot of absences. Many of our friends were out sick. We continue to encourage mask usage if your child has a cough or sniffles. This week we began working on telling time with both our 1st and 2nd graders. We are first looking at time to […]

Dia de Los Muertos

Hello Blackberry Families, We’ve had a very eventful week to start off November! Monday we had the Recycled Runway, Tuesday our Halloween Parade and Party, and Wednesday we had our Dia De Los Muertos Event. Thank you all that helped in any way, shape, or form for making all these events possible! We appreciate you […]

“You know you’re one of my best friends”

Dear Blackberry Parenting Adults, Today we had the most beautiful morning meeting. Your children showed so much love and kindness to each other. They filled each others bucket, they gave compliments, and celebrated each others wins. It was really an indicator of how everything we do matters. This week we really honed in on what […]

Week 2

Hello Blackberry Creek Families, We had a great second week. We continue to build community, get to know each other, and have fun. We played a few math games, practiced spelling new words, and learned what being a good friend and community member means. Mark also joined us this week and we are so excited […]

First Day of School

Hello Blackberry Families, We had a fantastic first day of school! It was such a joy to see all of our community members and get to know each other. I wanted to share these pictures with you! If your child is not pictured they asked to not have their picture taken and I wanted to […]