T-minus 2 weeks

Walkathon Thursday–pack a lunch! Spanish update from Jessica: In Spanish class, students are putting final touches on presentations they’ve been working on about different Spanish-speaking countries. Teams have chosen creative ways to share about the country and culture they have researched, doing an excellent job of utilizing newly acquired vocabulary in their presentations. One team made an […]

Play this Thursday! 6-7:30

The Cerrito play, a musical extravaganza based on Laurence Yep’s Dragonwings, takes flight this Thursday at 6 pm. Students will be served pizza before the show, at 5:15, if they so desire. Thanks Erin for making that happen!  5th grade graduation/4th grade torch passing ceremony to follow. We will be done by 7:30, latest.   We still […]

Class Store, 5th Stock Market Project, Script Writing

The students are very excited about their twilight Spring Sing performance tomorrow night! This is an outdoor concert, and the students will be seated outside, watching the performance.  Please guide your children to dress according to the weather which can be chilly.      The schedule is as follows:  5:45 Light Dinner Reception 6:00 All […]

Chinatown=Awesome 4/30-5/4

Homework Read for 20 minutes. For the Manzanar reading group, this from Katherine: 1. Read chapters 4-8 by Monday 5/7 and chapters 9-11 by Wednesday 5/9. 2. Write vocabulary words and definitions on index cards for chapters 5-11.  The words are printed on the assignment sheet. 4th math worksheet, 5th math packet 1-2 pages of writing […]

Shoreline Cleanup, Angel Island 4/23-27

Angel Island on Friday! We board the ferry at 10:10 am, so we should leave TBS as close to 8:30 as we can that morning to allow for parking time, etc. We board the return ferry at 2:05, so expect us back later than usual on Friday, probably at 4. Today (Monday) we walked the […]

And thus begins the final push! 4/16-20

A great website for students to check out more puberty ed topics is amaze.org. Jennifer Devine gives the caveat that some videos are for younger kids and some are more for teenagers, so students/families should use their discretion in figuring out which are just right for 4/5. Homework Math 4th grade: worksheet due Wednesday 5th […]

Return of the Boa, 4/2-6

It’s Readathon Week! And Rosie is back! And next week is Spring Break! What could be better? Homework: No Wordly Wise this week Read: 20 minutes a night + one poem (see below) Write: Read the assigned poem each night and respond for one (whole) page. Some ideas: continue the poem with your own creative […]

Puberty Ed, Yeast Experiments, Sunshine 3/26-30

Homework Math 4th grade: 20 minutes of Khan 5th grade: packet due Friday Reading For real. 20 minutes a night. At the very least. Read something good and that’s just right for you. Writing 1 page each night. Open topic. Writers are people who write. Regularly. Wordly Wise do it now so later in the […]