Field trip to Cohen-Bray House on Wednesday.

For students that like tacos, you don’t have to pack a lunch! We will BART to Fruitvale, walk about 20 minutes to the Cohen-Bray House, a historical landmark and family home of 4/5 teacher Julia Shields. We will tour the Victorian home, draw, write, garden, and eat tacos from a local taqueria. Wear sneakers, sunscreen, bring a snack and water, and get ready to take historical perspectives. We will leave by 9 and be back by dismissal, probably earlier.

Still need drivers and chaperones to make these trips a go! Please volunteer by clicking below.

Thursday, May 2: Blackhawk Auto Museum. We will head to the Blackhawk Auto Museum in Danville on Thursday, May 2. We will leave TBS at 11:30, so it’s a short afternoon field trip. They have an incredible collection of Western memorabilia that you have to see to believe. There’s also an amazing classic car exhibit to behold, if that’s your bag.  Please join us, we need drivers.

Thursday, May 23, 8 am – Friday, May 24, 4 pm: Donner Pass Overnight. Clair-Tappan Lodge. It’s safe to say that it’s going to be a sledding party. There’s a ton of snow, and it’s highly likely that it will be there until mid-July at this point. We would love as many chaperones as we can get for this one. Unlimited chaperones, Sign up here to drive or ride along! This document also has a packing list, the floor layout of the lodge, and eventually will have the intinerary and other resources.

A note from the art studio:

  • As you may have read in the last Newsnotes, Nick, our Assistant Art Teacher, has moved on to an exciting new opportunity at Pixar. Vanessa, who is our Middle School Teaching Artist, will step in to assist Julianne with art classes for the rest of the year. We’re excited that the students will have this opportunity to get to know their future art teacher a little better.

National Poetry Month continues…

In honor of Earth Day, we will dive into nature poetry, especially the romantics that were composing verses during the Westward Movement. Wordsworth was Monday. Below, you can feel the vibes in Strawberry Park as students tried to get their rhyme schemes and meter right.

 

Homework

Math

  • 4th grade worksheets due Tuesday and Friday
  • 5th grade packet due Friday. Some of the pages are mismarked – sorry about that. Please listen carefully in class to know what is due when.

Reading

Writing

  • Monday: Write a 4-stanza poem in the style of William Wordsworth’s I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
  • Tuesday: Write one stanza (6 lines, 8 syllables per line, ABABCC scheme) about Ft. Hall. What did you buy? What’s it like? What are you looking forward to?

Word Study

  • Spelling and Wordly Wise.