Introducing Samantha Snook! October 9-12, 2018

  Greetings Cerrito Families! My name is Samantha Snook and it is my pleasure to be the Assistant Teacher in Cerrito Creek this year. I am a second year resident teacher with BATTI (Bay Area Teacher Training Institute) and excited to teach with Mike this year. I earned my BA in Child Development from CSUS […]

10/1-3

See you all for conferences on Thursday and Friday. Homework Read, always, for as many minutes and pages as you can manage. Write one page in your writer’s notebook every night. Start thinking about which memoir you will publish in our first Chanterelle. Math: 4th grade worksheet due Wednesday 5th grade packet due Wednesday Study […]

September 24-28, 2018

Building community in school and beyond I thoroughly enjoyed seeing so many of you at the Fall Fest on Sunday, crooning and picking with my bandmates for y’all. And yum on that chicken. Thank you, Araxi and the advancement team, including the multitude of volunteers that made it happen. In my experience, the better community […]

9/17-21

One student escaped my portrait efforts today, but I will make sure to get them tomorrow! A question from Back to School Night that went unanswered: someone wanted to know how best to communicate with the teachers. Email for logistics, phone calls for more substantive check-ins, meetings for circling the wagons with your child’s learning […]

First full week, BTS night 9/10-14

See many of you Thursday for Back to School Night! We will talk and experience curriculum and methodology in the 4/5. If you can’t make it, be sure to check the Back to School Night link in the Categories bar to the right of the blog. If you haven’t seen the Cerrito calendar yet, which […]

Quick Publish, Birthdays, and Homework 9/4-7

Dear Cerrito families, Welcome to week two! I will write more in these next few weeks as we get oriented, because there is so much to tell. Make sure to make it out to Back to School Night next Thursday, 9/13, so we can tell it to you in person, as well. First, students published […]

Week One: Getting to Know You

Welcome to the Cerrito Blog, and welcome to the 2018-19 school year! We will publish a blog once at the beginning of every week, then add to it each day throughout the week with photos, stories, homework, and more. We put a lot of work into it and hope you find it useful. Check captions […]

Welcome to Cerrito Creek!

Dear Cerrito Creek Families, Greetings and well wishes! We hope your summer months have so far been restorative and peaceful. We write to share our excitement for the 2018-19 school year, and to give you some sense of what to expect. For those of you new to the class this year, my name is Mike […]

Thank you, farewell, and…homework

Dear Cerrito families, A heartfelt thank you to all of you for your thoughtful year-end gifts and cards. We are truly touched and moved by your sentiments. A special thank you to Erin Pederson for organizing the Amazon wish list for all of you to help stock our library with  beautiful books for next year […]

Tears, Joy, Exhilaration: The Last Week

Watch this amazing short film Carmen made about Dragonwings to get started! Thank you, thank you, thank you to Katy Grannan for the incredible and amazing Fort Ross photo albums. They are above and beyond beautiful. Thank you Deb Volk for the yearbooks coming out on Thursday. Thank you to Shiva and Sowmya for the […]