We have much to celebrate in our last month together. We celebrate the coming of the summer with a K-3 trip to Alameda’s Crown Beach for our annual Beach Day the first Friday of June. We were happily surprised by the warm, sunny weather and high tide for most of the time we were at […]
Continuing on with end of the year happenings, there’s a lot and there’s a reason that people in the education world call May the month of 1,000 days. We celebrated a few birthdays! We made some art for moms and those in mom-roles. We had our last two meetings with our 7th grade buddies. We […]
Hello Families! I hope that your summers are well underway and you are enjoying a time of rest and relaxation! I wanted to thank you for building such a warm community together this year, and I wanted to share all of the moments, small and large from the last few months of school! Here we […]
Hello Families, We celebrated our Read-a-thon week with many reading related activities. On Monday, we had D.E.A.R. moments throughout the day. The Kindergartners rang the gong at different times during the day, and everyone K-8 pulled out the book they had with them and plopped down and read for a bit. It was a joy […]
Hello Families, We have had another eventful week of learning and exploration. This week, we looked at fractions in different ways, experimented with magnets in our introduction to the Motion and Matter unit, and took a trip to the local branch of the Berkeley Public Library! Fractions can be a very abstract idea. To get […]
Hello Families, We hope that your transition back from the Spring Break has been a smooth one. We jumped right into fractions this week. We talked about the numerator as parts that are taken and the denominator as all the parts that are there. We also talked about how fractions are “fair shares” where each […]
Hello Families, Recapping an eventful few weeks, we celebrated Pi Day, took a field trip to Coyote Hills Regional Park, and started our math unit on measurement and fractions. It is a tradition to celebrate Pi Day in 3rd grade by bringing in pies, measuring pi, and creating pi puns! We had a variety of […]
Hello Families, We celebrated our 100th Day of School, and there were so many celebrations of learning along the way! We shared our combined efforts for the 1,000 Projects, a third grade group came together to write their own song and perform at our monthly assembly, and we had a few birthdays to celebrate! After […]
Dear Families, We hope that you have had a restful and enjoyable break. We wanted to share some moments from Friendship Week, as well as invite you to our 100th Day Celebration on Tuesday, February 28 from 8:30am – 9:00am. During Friendship Week, we encouraged kids to do acts of kindness to many people in […]
Hello Families, We took our first field trip of the year to Zellerbach Hall on UC Berkeley’s campus to see Kodo – Tsuzumi: One Earth Tour. We were met with a slew of unexpected transportation delays, but the chaperones and third graders made it happen! Instead of taking the 51B bus to Zellerbach Hall, we […]
