Dear Blackberry Families, I wanted to take a moment to express my deepest gratitude for your support throughout this school year. Teaching your wonderful children has been an absolute joy, and I am truly thankful for the opportunity to have been a part of their first-second grade journey here at TBS. As I move on […]
Hello Blackberry Families, Here are some photos from this week! We celebrated a Birthday Circle for Erion, learned new writing rules in phonics, practiced our inference skills, learned about Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, watched the Middle School performance for the Blance Nieves, and are just about done with our […]
Hello Blackberry Families! Please enjoy these photos from Readathon week! We had an eventful, educational, and super fun week! Take care and enjoy your weekend! Gracias y Saludos, Leslie & Mark
Blackberry Families, For the past two weeks phonics has been hard, but as our Blackberrians know “we can do hard things.” We have done spelling activities, phoneme manipulation activities, and even some spelling “show what you know’s.” We have been focusing on the Phonics Rule for OI and OY, as well as the long […]
Feb 9th, 2024, Hello Blackberry Families, We would like to share with you a quick recap of this week. We’ve had a busy and very rainy week. During Science class we have learned about the Atmospheric River storms hitting California. This overlapped with Cultural Studies and having a group discussion on how we […]
Hello Blackberry Families, Thank you for being patient with us as we have been very busy and haven’t had time to update the blog. We appreciate your understanding. Mark and a few of the students have been sick these past weeks – reminder to have students stay home if they are not feeling well […]
Hello Blackberry Families, Reminder, School is closed Monday, January 15th for Martin Luther King’s Day. Today we went on our field trip Adventure Playground for our field trip! We had an amazing time. For some of our friends it was their very first field trip, and when presented with the opportunity to show […]
January 5th, 2024 Hello Blackberry Families, Happy New Year! We want to welcome everyone back. It’s been a short week but we have had lots of fun sharing about what we did over our Holiday Break. We’ve had many opportunities to discuss how families may celebrate (or may not celebrate) this time, how […]
Dec. 15, 2023 Hello Blackberry Families, That’s a wrap for the year! We had a great 2023 in the Blackberry classroom and TBS. Students will return Wednesday January 3rd, 2024 for classes. Enjoy a nice, long break and holidays if you celebrate! Today we were able to do a Pajama Party! It was […]
Hello Blackberry Families, Welcome back everyone after a week long Fall Break. Unfortunately, Leslie was out sick this week! We hope she gets well soon! I just would like to send another reminder for students to wear appropriate clothing for colder weather. In the afternoon, it is a bit warmer but towards the end of […]