Upcoming Events and Special Dates:
Saturday, Jan. 25- 11:00-3:00 PM— Fort Ross baking, pickling & costuming
Join Cerrito students and parents for a fun weekend workshop of pickling, cookie-making and sewing. This will be an opportunity to authenticate costumes through Russian decorations. This is a drop-in style workshop, so feel free to come anytime during that time window.
Please sign up for this event on the sign up sheet.
Monday, Jan. 27 and Mon. Feb. 3- 2:10-3:00—Fur Hat Sewing in Class
Parents are invited to support Cerrito students in making “fur” hats for Ft. Ross during 2 separate in-class workshops! We will need families to donate sewing machines for this as well, and invite parents to come and help supervise and assist in sewing.
Thursday, Jan. 30th- 6:00-8:00 PM— Art Show Opening!
A message from Julianne and Vanessa:
We look forward to welcoming families at the opening of our 18th annual art show at the Berkeley School University Avenue Campus. All Students, ECC-8th will be represented. Each of the Art studio classes ECC – 8th grade have been working thoughtfully to create a show that shares their art-making processes, creative learning, art history study, innovation and civic engagement that happens every day in the studio. This year’s show, called “Art Show 20/20: What is Your Art Language?” features artwork inspired by identity and human connection while asking viewers how they interpret the world through artistic methods. Come experience the ways in which art materials and processes have their own language to communicate. Work in Chalk Pastel, Paper Sculpture, Clay, Painting, Drawing, Cartooning, Installation, Textiles, and Wool Felting. You will be invited to participate in Art Experiences based on curator Hans Ulrih Obrists’ “Longest Running Art show – DO IT!”. Artists work inspiring student work includes: Romare Bearden, Mark Bradford, Nick Cave, Mildred Howard, William H. Johnson, Alma Woodsey Thomas, Cy Twombly and more…
Thursday-Friday, Feb. 6-7— Cerrito goes to Fort Ross.
We hope that you can make it to as many of these events as possible. Read on to see what the Cerrito students got into this week!
Cultural Studies + Writer’s Workshop
Students continued to get in the mindsets of their Fort Ross characters and learn more about their job roles and history of Settlement Ross. Officers for the Hunters, Cooks and Clerk-Artisans came by the class to continue crafts and prep work with their employees. Students also researched their roles, the culture of their characters, and created some realistic fiction elements to enrich their role-playing. Kiddos completed making their Fort Ross journals, and will begin writing in them next week. Cerrito also learned some Fort Ross-themed vocabulary words for Spelling, and practiced cursive for more authentic journalling.
Reader’s Workshop
Students in Cerritoberry continued reading their Book Club books. Students are focusing on character traits, character development, and referencing textual evidence. Through the four different book clubs, students are exploring themes such as book banning, bullying, police brutality, and the way someone’s perspective shapes how they depict.
The Jilly P. group watching a Ted Talk about sign language.
5th Grade Math
Students learned 2 new games this week while continuing their work on decimals. One game gave kids the chance to compare fractions to the thousandths place, and another had them practice rounding to the tenths. We explored decimals through base 10 visuals, number lines, and as fraction equivalents.
4th Grade Math
This week in math, 4th graders took fractions to the next level by finding equivalent fractions, adding and subtracting fractions with like denominators, and converting improper fractions to mixed numbers and back again. The egg carton model has been a helpful way for students to visualize and practice creating fractions with different denominators.
Science
This week students built upon last week’s question of “what is a system?” Cerrito students watched a video and took notes to deepen our understanding of what is a system and subsystem. We specifically learned about the 1980 eruption of Mt. Saint Helen, and how it affected the geosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere. Table groups also participated in creating a food web as an example of a system!
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