Math in the Real World 5th grade math students were treated to a guest educator today, Travis Brooks, dad to Cerritan Cedar. Travis, a product manager at Netflix and professional math enthusiast, led students through an engaging look behind the scenes at how data informs decision-making at Netflix, how data is collected, and through the […]
We Got Brains on the Brain! Happy Spring! Nowruz mobarak! The last few weeks have been quite eventful with Brain Week and an action-packed geometry unit in 5th grade math, and teacher birthdays galore! Thank you for a wonderful round of spring parent-teacher conferences as well! Brain Week “Brain: An apparatus with which we think […]
The Gadgets Have Lift-Off! This week, reinvigorated with energy from the mid-winter break and sunshine of this “Fool’s Spring” weather, Cerrito scientists set to work on the final project for our unit on electricity and magnetism-building gadgets! In teams of two and three, students brainstormed the types of gadgets they’d like to attempt by first […]
20 Years of Radical Black Joy @ the MoAD As important as it is to learn the hard history of American Enslavement and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, we know that it was not the beginning nor it end of the Black experience around the world. It is equally, if not more important to center Black […]
February 7, 2025 From our learnings about Jamestown and in pursuit of answering the question, “Why do people move?” we are embarking on our study of African enslavement in the US. We began our lesson with a, “What we think we know & What we wonder” brainstorm (photo below), setting some expectations around the language […]
January 24, 2025 Despite the short week, science inspiration was all around us as Cerrito students gear up for their much-anticipated gizmo project! After last week’s foray into magnetism, in Tuesday’s science class, students teamed up to use what they’d learned about circuits and magnets to build an electromagnet strong enough to pick up 20 […]
New Year, New Books! Our first round of CerritoBerry book groups launched this week. This round we have four titles, Love That Dog (Creech), The Phantom Tollbooth (Juster), Clayton Byrd Goes Underground (Williams-Garcia), and You Don’t Know Everything, Jilly P. (Gino). Groups meet on Tuesday and Thursday during our regular reading period and enjoy active […]
January 10, 2024 Happy New Year, Cerrito! Students came by with all different feelings and energy levels this week but most were eager to return to friends and routine. Community With a new year, comes a new reset and resolutions. We spent much community time recounting, reflecting, sharing about our breaks, and reflecting on what […]
Winter Greetings! Apologies for those looking for the blog post. I was mistakenly posted to our OLD page. It is still viewable through this link and I will work on migrating all the photos to the correct site at the earliest opportunity. Thanks for your patience and please check out the blog! Sam
Welcome and welcome back to school, Cerrito Creek! This year we’ve hit the ground running with community building, investigations, and collaborative work all around. Browse through the photos to get a peek into Cerrito Creek in action, with some Strawberry Creek 5th graders sprinkled in for good measure! MATH 5th grade mathers began the year […]