Finding the Crescent Moon

Finding the Crescent Moon

Ramadan in our Kindergartens   |||  Ramadan is an Islamic holiday that is a “month of blessing” marked by prayer, fasting, and charity with a focus on self-sacrifice and devotion. Ramadan moves through the year following the lunar calendar so we have...
March brings Women’s History to Grade 8

March brings Women’s History to Grade 8

|||   Women’s history is important year-round, but the month of March gives us an opportunity to highlight this theme. In our Eighth Grade, students read an excerpt from Mary Wollstonecraft’s famous work published in 1792, A Vindication of the Rights of...
Celebrating Black History Month cont…

Celebrating Black History Month cont…

Celebrating Black American Culture ||| Songs and Singing Games Ms. McCune brought a series of songs and singing games that are rooted in African-American culture to the lower graders. Each class learned a different song/singing game. She introduced the Third Grade to...
Celebrating Black History

Celebrating Black History

Celebrating Black History and Manuel Had a Riddle ||| Black history is part of human history and is important all year long, as are all cultural lineages in this global education. But this time of year does offer an extra opportunity for teachers to explore the...
Ohlone Sisters Visit BRWS

Ohlone Sisters Visit BRWS

Ohlone Sisters visit Berkeley Rose ||| On Wednesday January 25 we were blessed to have a visit from the Ohlone Sisters—Carla Marie and Desiree Munoz. Carla Marie and Desiree are Rumsen Ohlone culture bearers. They did three presentations over the course of the...