End of Year Dates Wed, April 24: Field Trip to Fruitvale and Julia’s historic family home. 2-3 chaperones. All day, BART, Spanish and local history. Tuesday, May 7: Field Trip to Sacramento Railroad Museum. Take Amtrak to Sacramento, tour California State Railroad Museum. Early departure (7:51 am train, meet at 7:40 N Berkeley Amtrak station; […]
Thank you all for taking the time to meet with us last week. Those were essential conversations, and we are busily working on the follow-up and action plans. And enjoy those portfolios! Please return them this week after you have written your short letter of feedback. The Gizmos Most of you got a load […]
Conferences on Thursday and Friday We look forward to connecting with you later this week to discuss your child’s progress so far this year. We will look at students’ portfolios, give you updates since progress reports in December, and set goals for the remainder of the year. We hope the Friday Folders have given you […]
The Oregon Trail The Oregon Trail is a classic cultural studies topic in fourth and fifth grade, and one that we have honed and refined in Cerrito Creek for the last decade. If you grew up in the United States, it’s likely that you too traveled the trail in a virtual simulation with your classmates. […]
This week, we will finish gizmos, publish a Chanterelle, and try our darndest to stay healthy. Below, enjoy a gallery of student artwork from the wonderful Art Show, a Talent Friday that was a Canadian trivia quiz, the emerging gizmos, fifth graders mastering the standard multiplication algorithm, and a lepiota rachodes, or shaggy parasol mushroom. […]
We were greeted by a full double rainbow on Monday morning, a pot of gold to be found in the Depot, where the art show opens on Thursday night, and in the kindergarten room, where we all know the magic of the elementary years begins. Rainbows are nature’s lemonade; just when the rain is […]
Here’s this week’s forecast in Cerrito Creek, brought to you by your friendly classroom weather people, Sam and Mike. Monday, it was raining multiplication algorithms in fifth grade math. This is one of the more important fifth-grade math skills, so we will spend a few weeks practicing, practicing. Fourth graders were rounding to estimate sums […]
Cerrito’s trip to the Museum of the African Diaspora last Thursday was wonderful. After a rainy start, the skies parted for a trip that was equal parts outdoors and in. The art in the museum was accessible for our students, and the docents were great with children. We even stumbled across the MLK Jr. waterfall […]
Still snuggle-up, read-a-book, tea-drinking’ weather. See some great photos from last week and updates on publishing, gizmos, recess, the history of enslaved peoples, and Talent Friday. Writer’s Workshop Students are simultaneously practicing typing skills and publishing writing for the second Chanterelle. We will continue to use a rubric for the “6+1 Traits” of good writing, […]
Looking ahead to the first six weeks of 2019 Welcome back to school, work, and the second-to-last year of the current presidency. Rain and gloom is great weather for learning…as long as the clouds part for recess. Following is a bulleted list of what to expect between now and February break. The Chanterelle will come […]
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