3rd Grade New Year Celebration

3rd Grade New Year Celebration

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....
Michaelmas Celebration

Michaelmas Celebration

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...
Pentathlon

Pentathlon

|||   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...
“What are you doing for others?”

“What are you doing for others?”

“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...
Ramadan and Eid Celebrations

Ramadan and Eid Celebrations

Ramadan and Eid Celebration ||| We would like to share some highlights of classroom celebrations of Ramadan and Eid over the past month. In Nursery, the children watched a little puppet show based on conversations with families from the class about their Ramadan and...
Dia De Los Muertos – 2020

Dia De Los Muertos – 2020

Dia De Los Muertos ||| Día de los Muertos is almost here!  On November 1st and 2nd, this festival will be celebrated everywhere in the world where the Latin American heritage lives. This year especially, with so many loved ones having recently crossed the threshold...