by delta | Sep 29, 2023 | Festivals, Grades, School News
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 will...
by delta | Mar 24, 2023 | Early Childhood, Festivals, School News
Ramadan in our Kindergartens |||Â 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...
by delta | Jan 13, 2023 | Festivals, Grades, School News
3rd Grade New Year’s Celebration ||| New Year’s Day (January 1) is a major celebration in Japan. Throughout the country, people make and eat mochi (rounded cakes made from pounded rice) on New Year’s Day, symbolizing health and longevity for the coming year. Ms....
by delta | Sep 30, 2022 | Festivals, Grades, School News
Michaelmas Celebration ||| Michaelmas is a festival celebrated by Waldorf schools throughout the world, but 2022 is the first year that Berkeley Rose held a Michaelmas festival and it was a great success! The event is about courage and inner strength—qualities that...
by delta | Jun 2, 2022 | Festivals, Grades, School News
|||Â Â As part of the fifth grade curriculum, and the study of Greek mythologies – as well as Greek art, philosophy, politics, math, and science – our fifth grade class joined another school in the traditional Pentathlon games celebrated by many Waldorf...
by delta | Jan 17, 2022 | Festivals, Grades, School News
“What are you doing for others?” |||  On January 17th, the US observed its annual holiday recognizing the legacy of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. In anticipation of this important date, our Lead Faculty discussed what this holiday means...