- Your students will be performing at the Winter Holiday Concert this Wednesday December 14, 6:00-8:00 p.m. at Northbrae Community Church. We expect all children to attend, so please let us know ASAP if your child cannot attend. Parents are encouraged to bring cookies for the celebration if you can, and students are asked to dress in “festive holiday attire”--something colorful, slightly or fully formal, and fun.
- Please join us for our Holiday Family Potluck at lunch on Friday, Dec 16. Please bring a dish to share at 11:45 a.m. to the classroom; we will eat together from 12:15 to 1:00 p.m. in Strawberry Creek.
- Our buddies in the K/1 Laurel Creek class are collecting pennies for the Friends of Oakley charity. The Sweet Briar Creek class is collecting toiletries and gently used books for the Women and Children's Daytime Drop-In Center shelter. And the Temescal Creek class is collecting non-perishable, nutritious foods for the Alameda County Food Bank. Please talk to your child and consider bringing donations to one of these good causes by Thursday, Dec. 15!
Musical instruments
The Cerrito and Strawberry Creek fourth and fifth grade classrooms enjoyed a presentation about musical instruments, as an introduction to a program they will be participating in for nine weeks from January 10 through March 14. Paul Dresher and his colleagues shared different kinds of hand-made instruments with the students this morning, like the mbira (thumb piano), drums, and other percussion instruments; wind instruments; and stringed instruments.
We also learned some science about how instruments work: ask your student to tell you more.
Fourth grade math
All the fourth graders played games together today, revisiting games we've played earlier this year, and building skills in computation and understanding of place value and probability.
Buddies
We read the book Weslanders with our K/1 buddies, about a boy who invents his own world. Then students worked together to invent earth-friendly vehicles.
