Welcoming Spring

Welcoming Spring

|||  This Friday, students in Gr 1 through Gr 8 had the opportunity to have a taste of a very popular festival called Holi which is celebrated in India and elsewhere in Southeast Asia. The Indian parents of children in N-3rd, along with their teachers, brought this...
Lunar New Year Celebrations

Lunar New Year Celebrations

|||  Happy Year of the Dragon! Lunar New Year is upon us and our students’ week-long celebrations have been filled with joy and laughter. This year all students from Kindergarten through 8th grade created something special, to be placed in a red envelope, to be...
Festivals of Light

Festivals of Light

   |||   As the darkness of fall and winter approaches, Berkeley Rose Waldorf School has been illuminating the dark with our light. Our school is celebrating the changing seasons with a variety of festivals and traditions. One such celebration is Diwali – the...
Dia de los Muertos

Dia de los Muertos

Dia de los Muertos Celebration   |||   Reverence is in the air at Berkeley Rose Waldorf School! This is the time of year that we honor and celebrate our ancestors and loved ones that have passed. Our children, from kindergarten to 8th grade, experience reverence,...
Michaelmas

Michaelmas

Michaelmas Celebration   |||  Michaelmas is a festival that marks the end of the harvest and summer months coinciding with the Fall Equinox. Although the weather still tends to be warmer here in Northern California, the seasons will soon begin to change, and the days...
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...