Observe the Moon Night

Saturday Sept. 26 is International Observe the Moon Night and Astronomy Day!

Here's a great place to learn about our Moon:

NASA: All About the Moon

You can learn more here:

 NASA Space Place: Moon

The Princess and the Warrior

The Princess and The Warrior 

by Duncan Tonatiuh

Read by San Francisco's Rosa Parks Elementary School librarian Ms. Windell

In honor of Latin American Heritage Month

Nocturnal Animals

Rangers from the East Bay Regional Parks share some of their favorite nature stories.

Songs and Stories: Nocturnal Animals

Welcome Back

 Dear parents,

Welcome back to the new school year! Even though it looks very different than we hoped, I know that lots of exciting learning is happening. 

Since we’re not having in-person computer lab, I’m helping support the K-3 teachers. If your student is using Let’s Go Learn or Typing.com and is having issues, please email me. I can usually get things fixed quickly.

I’ll be updating the computer lab blog at least weekly with fun and interesting things for our K-3 students. There are also links to all the sites we’ve used over the past few years: great math practice games, phonics and reading, science activities (and list of science fair project ideas), as well as coding. 

I miss seeing your kids in the computer lab in person!

Summer Reading!

We all know that Kensington Never Stops Reading!

While you are reading, check out Contra Costa Library's Summer Reading Program:

Summer Reading: Dive Deep

Learn to Draw Totoro

Studio Ghibli has provided some resources for kids while we're all stuck at home. Here is a video with  Toshiro Suzuki with a quick and easy tutorial on drawing Totoro.

Learn to Draw Totoro

Zebra Story Time

We can't go to the Oakland Zoo in person right now, but we can learn how the zebra got its stripes with some help from one of the keepers and the Oakland zebras!

Greedy Zebra by Mwenye Hadithi