October 24-28

Exploratorium on Wednesday: please pack a snack and lunch Halloween parade Friday Homework – none due until Thursday or Friday (tomorrow’s a field trip!) Science: electromagnetism worksheet (due Thursday) Math: 4th grade Factor Bingo; 5th grade page 30 in Spectrum (don’t sweat the decimals at the bottom of the page if you don’t know what […]

October 17-21

Cerrito Student Council Speeches Politics, Literature Circles, Refugee Update, and Halloween Costumes The student council election this year is closer aligned with the national process than ever before. Candidates are working to elaborate their views using writing prompts and then sharing them in “debates,” the first of which we held on Friday. Truth be told, […]

Digital Citizenship & Literacy at TBS

Hi, you have probably seen me around campus but aren’t quite sure who I am or what I do, so I thought that a blog post would be a great opportunity to fill you all in! My name is Susan Winesmith and I’m the EdTech Specialist here at TBS. I work closely with our IT […]

Field Trip Sign Up

Dear Cerrito families, Happy Indigenous People’s day, and welcome to a new week. We have our first field trip coming up in two weeks to the Exploratorium to deepen our experience thinking about electricity and magnetism. Students are hard at work on their state maps this week, as well as compiling the data they took […]

Building a Culture of Belonging

The K5 Faculty (and by extension, the whole school) is elevating our focus on the skills of active listening. When sharing, collaborating or communicating in any form, listening is the complement to speaking, and is also critical to the healthy development of perspective-taking and empathy. Skillful listening allows students to see and support others effectively, […]