Halloween Parade Friday–no super scary stuff, weapons, or masks, extra points for literary or historical references No field trip to the Mission Cultural Center this week, as originally planned. On 12/11, we will go to Mission Dolores to tour the old mission, then take a mural tour. Homework Wordly Wise: next chapter Math: 4th grade […]
To the mysterious giver of a beautiful plant to help clean the air in our classroom: thank you! Homework Wordly Wise: do the next chapter online by Friday Math: 4th graders have a 3-page packet due Friday, 5th graders have a packet due Friday as well as 30 minutes of Khan in the course […]
It was a real pleasure meeting with all of you last week. Thank you for your time and support as we set out on or continue this journey together! We are working our way through the long checklist of to-do items that emerged from those fruitful conversations. We’ll be in touch! Homework Reading: You should […]
A glimpse at students in the process of creating maps of California… Homework 4th grade math worksheet (due Wednesday) get started on the next chapter of Wordly Wise (not due until Friday, a day you won’t have school) Science: black boxes in your home. Even if you forgot to pick up a worksheet, make […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
…to a new school year! The first day’s nervous anticipation quickly gave way to joyful excitement as we enumerated the routines, dabbled in academic work, and broke the ice with our new community members. Ask your child about the mystery tubes they had to explain through diagrams, conversations, and model building. If you are new […]
Dear Cerrito Creek Families, Happy summer! We hope that you have found calm and rest in your months away from TBS and are as excited as we are about another year of deep learning and exploration. For those of you new to the class this year, my name is Mike Sinclaire, and this will be […]