Play Tuesday, the Swan Song 6/3-6

Performance Tomorrow! Bittersweet Gifts in Oregon is on Tuesday, June 4th, at 6 pm. There will be pizza for hungry actors at 5:15 in Cerrito Creek. Curtain call is 5:45. Show is at 6. Parents, siblings, other family members, and special friends are all invited. We will be in the Depot. Graduation and stepping up […]

Winding up then down, 5/28-31

Upcoming Walkathon is this Thursday. Pack a snack, lunch, and water for this healthy day of civic engagement, community building, and celebration. No hot lunch served. Next Tuesday, from 6 to 7 in the Depot, is the Cerrito play: Bittersweet Gifts in Oregon. Room coordinators will help us serve pizza to students at 5:15, so […]

An unexpectedly regular week 5/20-24

Upcoming Meet other Cerrito families and Erin Pederson at the telescopes at Chabot Space and Science Center to check out the starts. Friday, May 31st. From Erin: The evening will begin around 7/7:30 in the telescope workshop. I think it’s important that the kids have some foundational information about telescopes before they look through them on […]

Scripts, songs, oh my 5/13-17/2019

Upcoming mini field trip to the Berkeley Marina on Wednesday for a shoreline cleanup. Please fill out the waiver in your child’s bag and return it by then. They should have a water bottle, snack, sun protection, and comfortable shoes. We will walk down and bus back. Tahoe next Thursday and Friday! The big details […]

Amtrakin’ 5/6-10

See you at the Amtrak station Tuesday morning under University Ave at Fourth Street! Train leaves at 7:56, so please arrive at 7:45, latest. Check your email for other details. Spring Sing Thursday. Blackhawk Auto Museum Tortilla Making for Cinco de Mayo Homework Math 5th grade DreamBox, 1 hour by end of week 4th grade […]

Blackhawk Museum Thursday, 4/29-5/3

Blackhawk Museum Thursday Thank you volunteer drivers! We need two more to make the trip go, so please sign up here if you can join us from 11:30 to 3:30 on Thursday. We head to Sacramento via train next Tuesday, so prepare to meet us at the Berkeley Amtrak Station on Fourth Street a little […]

Earth Day, Cohen-Bray 4/22-26

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 […]

Rad Women, 4/15-19

Welcome back! Welcome back everyone! We hope that you all had enjoyable breaks, be with your feet up at home with a good book, or on the road and in the air, exploring what this amazing world has to offer and spending quality time with loved ones! We are hitting the ground running in our […]

Fools of April, Poets, and the Joy of Reading 4/1-5

For the Joy of Reading This week is all about reading…yay! Students will stop, drop, and read for ten minutes twice a day this week when the kindergarteners ring the gong. Please fill your rucksack with literature of all kinds, because variety is the spice of a reading life. We have two author experiences this […]

Jigsaw, Broken Dreams in Oregon 3/25-29

Readathon next week! Remember to bring in books for the swap. Jigsaw Learning We are increasingly using an instructional strategy in which students read different texts, then share out from what they read. In effect, they become teachers of each other. The cognitive load, so to speak, shifts to students as they must summarize and […]