MAP Growth Testing, September 25-29

MAP Growth testing this week. We take MAP tests twice a year, and they are designed to give teachers, students, and parents specific formative assessment data, so we can create academic goals particular to each student and individualize curriculum. For example, I will input student MAP scores into Khan Academy, and the website will automatically […]

September 18-22, 2017

Happy Monday all. I hope you had a great weekend. Just a reminder that you can download all the documents from Back to School Night, and in fact read more deeply into our practices and curriculum in Cerrito than I was able to go in one short hour, by clicking on the category on the […]

First full week: 9/11-15

Back to School Night Thursday, from 6 to 8. See you there! We’ll give a Fort Ross preview and other important curriculum and event information. Also, fourth grade parents–I’m starting to call around to check in with how it’s going so far for your child. Don’t be alarmed if the teacher calls between 7 and […]

Lake Anza, Mixtures, Writing Territories

We hope you had a restful, cool Labor Day weekend. Swimming? Grilling? Cerrito has a full week, exploring the difference between mixtures and solutions in science class, building local knowledge through map exploration, getting into the math routines of our new Bridges math curriculum, and building our reader’s and writer’s workshop. Stay tuned for Lake […]