
First graders in Mrs. Portelli's Art class use color drops to help learn about the color wheel and create primary and secondary colors.

Happy Wellness Wednesday! Berkeley's Guidance Counselor, Mrs. Massaro, helps students remain centered, focused and send heart loving affirmations through a variety of mindfulness techniques.




Thank you teachers, parents, and Bergen Promise for a wonderful Back to School Night! I remain proud to be part of such a talented and loving community. #everyonebelongs #berkeleystrong





Fall is in the air! Thank you Mrs. Cunningham, Ms. Curran, and our PSO for helping our school 'fall' into season.


Thank you Mrs. Falk, Mrs. Canaletti, PSO and our parent volunteers for our Annual Book Fair to keep us excited about reading and to help supplement our media center/library. Parents, the Book Fair is open for you tonight, during our Back to School Night.

To celebrate the first day of National Heritage Month, Berkeley Fifth Graders learned how to Flamenco Dance! #everyone belongs




Mrs. Binder, Ms. Sabbagh, and Mrs. Schott's Fifth Grade Classes attended a very exclusive event at the Genre Cafe for a special book genre "taste testing".

Mrs. Preciado's class enjoys "Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, who's in our room?" as part of their Morning Meeting.


Mrs. Petersen, School Nurse, delivers essential trainings each year to help keep everyone healthy and safe. This includes responding to severe allergies and Epinephrine training.

Thank you Chief Pontillo, Lieutenant Hurtuk, Officer Greg, and Ms. Lizzi for helping Berkeley students and parents remain safe during morning drop off.

More first day festivities with Officer Greg, Mr. Barbieri, Mrs. Schott, and Mrs. Councilor's Class.


WOW! What a morning! Great to see our Berkeley Family back together as we welcome our new families. Happy New School Year All!





Thank you to Berkeley PSO for helping keep our energy levels up for our second day of Responsive Classroom Training with Mr. Joe.

Berkeley staff were great students participating in my first Morning Meeting, utilizing my training from Responsive Classroom. We are excited for our upcoming training and Responsive Classroom implementation to help our students thrive even more.





Welcome to Berkeley! Thank you to our Fifth Grade Tour Guides and our PSO for helping make our Kindergarten and New Student Scavenger Hunt a success! See you all next week!

Thank you Lauren Mandal @yellowdoorartstudionj, Berkeley PSO and Parent Community for such an inspiring and fun upgrade to some of our blacktop area for children to enjoy during our days together. WOW!

Thanks to our past and present PSOs for some fun additions to our blacktop for outside activities...but what will the final product look like? Let's wait and see!

Our Final Day of www.responsiveclassroom.org involves learning more about Effective Management Techniques and Family Community Building.




Today we are investigating some Interactive Learning Strategies within www.responsiveclassroom.org to support academic and social/emotional competencies.

The essential Morning Meeting within www.responsiveclassroom.org has been both fun and interesting to learn via modeling and interactive practice. The Morning Meeting includes greeting, sharing, group activity, and morning message.


