Tahoe, Sweet Tahoe

I will let your child give you the highlights, but I thought I’d just drop a few photos on you to give you a sense of it. A beautiful, tiresome hike to a chilly alpine lake, bountiful morel mushrooms growing in the woods, a few buzzing mosquitoes, silent solo hike, musical campfire, storytelling, historic Sierra […]

Spelling bee, important dates, etc.

Dear Cerrito families, Thank you to the two chaperones who have sent in $65 for lodging next week. If you are planning on joining us, please send in your lodging fee asap. Many exciting events are on the horizon. Students are finishing up their webpages in the next week or so on Rad American Women. I will […]

Rad women, wagons, rehearsal

Homework: Math: 4th graders have Khan and must finish a survey; 5th graders should make graphs for the new stocks they bought today Reading: just read, no assignment this week Research: finish the timeline for your other rad woman, and put it on Google Docs. If that’s not possible, start working on your “Why this […]

This week in Cerrito

Homework 4th and 5th grade Khan Academy! Finish one timeline for your rad women on the Google Doc you created today. See the sample webpage below. Read!   She saved Lewis And Clark from Certain disaster. A Shoshone whose name means Bird Woman, Got away from old One-Eye, Le Borgne, And still had to marry burly Charbonneau. […]

Train Museum

A dearth of blogging this week, I know. Here are a few photos of the awesome train museum trip yesterday. Thank you to my chaperones.

Party With Your Teachers This Weekend (and This Fall!)

A message from Araxi Gundelfinger, Director of Advancement, pictured here at last year’s Wrap Party. Your teachers are coming to party this Saturday, are you? Get your tickets and join over 40 of our teachers and their guests from every grade level to celebrate the end of this fantastic year! What’s happening at the Wrap Party? […]

Train Museum on Thursday

Cerrito Creek will walk down to the 4th Street Amtrak station on Thursday for a day on the rails. We will take the ninety-minute ride to Sacramento and visit the California Railroad Museum. We depart on a 9:30 train and return at 3:42. Please pick your children up at the station at 3:42 at 4th […]

Grand Opening, Grand Closing

  Today was the grand opening of the Cerrito Classroom Store. Our students were eager to reward themselves with selected items from the store front. After two weeks of hard work, they calculated their pay in Cerrito’s currency, Hairy Bank Notes  and loaded up on goodies. In other news, my solo week has come to close […]