We shared our musical and mathematical skills and talents on Grandfriends Day. After the Temescalian’s performance singing and playing xylophones in the synagogue space next door, we returned to the classroom to share our favorite math games and banana bread we all had a hand in making. For science we sprouted scarlet runner beans and sent the seedlings home in […]
This past week was one of conversations about hope, peace, moving on, how our government works, and a whole lot of math! We started the week with a project to “arrange chairs” to illustrate multiplication in an array. Using the example of arranging chairs for an event, the different orientations may have the same product, […]
Since we had already celebrated Halloween, last Monday felt more like a regular day, with an extra dash (or two!) of excitement about some extra special after-school plans. Tuesday we took our Temescalians on a field trip to the Regional Botanic Garden. In spite of being a little tired and/or sugared up, they learned a lot about the […]
In 2015, a TBS parent nominated The Berkeley School to join an international network of changemaker organizations called Ashoka. A rigorous interview process led to our confirmation, and in June 2016, our school joined the Changemaker Schools Network. In doing so, we engaged with a global community of leading elementary, middle and high schools that […]
This week was full of pumpkins, seed observations, and Halloween festivities! We started the week continuing our work with things that come in groups as a way to introduce multiplication as repeated addition. Having done work with things that usually come in groups, we built on that and worked on word problems that involved things […]
