Berryessa Mandarin Immersion

Do you know how our students learn Lunar New Year? Take a look of our student's great artwork! They decorated the class with their own hand while learning the traditional culture.

Best wishes for the year of the tiger!

Are you interested in learning more about Berryessa Mandarin Programs? Please join the Information night to understand more about this wonderful program!
Date: 2/2/2022 or 2/7/2022
Time: 6pm to 7pm
Zoom Meeting ID: 832 4417 9668
Meeting Password: X44W3E

Berryessa Union School District - Dual Language Immersion Program

This is how Mandarin program students celebrated Mid-Autumn Festival! Students had fun with making mooncake, drawing, and writing poem!

Common questions for Mandarin Immersion program:
Q1. Does this program teach Simplified Chinese or Tradition Chinese?
Ans: Simplified Chinese

Q2: My family doesn't speak Mandarin, can my kid keep up the class?
Ans: Yes, we have students performing well in academia from non-native speaker family.

Q3: What do I need to prepare for my kid on the first day of school?
Ans: Water bottle. School will provide learning material and stationery.

Q4: What class will my kid be in? Who will be my kid's teacher?
Ans: Class roster will be published on the Friday prior to the first day of school. It will be posted on the school bulletin board. You will have to check out the information on campus due to privacy reason. No sharing on the internet.

Q5: Is there a school uniform?
Ans: No. However, school suggests parents to prepare white/blue/khaki clothes for students.

Q6: When is the first day of school? What is the classroom schedule?
Ans: https://cherrywood.berryessa.k12.ca.us/About-Us/Calendar--Classroom-Schedules/Calendar--Classroom-Schedules/index.html

Q7: What about English learning progress? My kid only speaks Mandarin, will his/her English learning curve fall behind the regular English class?
Ans: Based on the current test results, students from Mandarin immersion class perform better in English and Math compared to English class.

Q8: I heard there are a lot of homework, is it true?
Ans: Yes. Learning both languages at same time definitely increases the homework load. Students have weekly Mandarin and English homework assignment.

Cherrywood Elementary School - Calendar & Classroom Schedules

Dear parents,

Are you worry about the new school year? New to the program and have a lot of questions looking for help? Below is the wechat group QR code for immersion program. Join the group and ask your questions!

Link will expire on 8/8.

This page was originally created for Berryessa International Charter School. We were a group of parents in Berryessa area who wanted our children attending a Mandarin immersion school. We submitted our charter school petition in 2017, but it was rejected by the district board. However, our effort did not go in waste. Berryessa school district acknowledged the need of Mandarin learning environment and started the Mandarin Immersion (MI) program at Cherrywood elementary school from 2018.

To make sure we can further promote the MI program to Berryessa families, we decided to change the page name to Berryessa Mandarin Immersion. We hope this page can provide a centralize location for sharing MI program info .

Berryessa Mandarin Immersion Group Rules:

1) Be kind and respectful. Please be polite in all your posts and treat others the way you wish to be treated. No any personal attacks, bullying, harassment, or trolling. Any member who is intentionally rude, abusive, disruptive, and/or obscene is subject to permanent banning. Any topics created to insult and/or attack the group or its members, will be deleted without warning.

2) No politics discussion. We are all here to share Mandarin learning experiences. Any form of politics discussion will be deleted without warning.

3) Without the consent, You should not post picture with people in it.

4) This is not the official Berryessa Mandarin Immersion program FB page. The admin group are from the parents of the program.

貝麗莎中文沉浸雙語學習版版規:
1. 禁止攻擊版友,請注意發言禮貌與網路秩序. 任何不適當的發言,將會被版主給移除
2. 本版禁止討論政治. 這裡是提供學習並交流中文學習的地方,請不要有任何政治相關的話題
3. 未經許可,請勿張貼含有人物的照片
4. 本版並非官方的貝麗莎中文沉浸雙語項目網頁, 管理群是由目前參與這個雙語項目的家長擔任

For the purpose of applying for facility from the District, we will submit our Prop 39 application by end of October. Please fill out this form if you are meaningfully interested prospective parents (with children 4-7 years old) within the Berryessa School District: http://berryessacharter.org/IntentToEnroll/
You can drop off the filled from at 1334 Ridder Park Dr., San Jose, 95131, 10:00am-6:00pm on weekdays or 1:00am-4:00pm on Sunday. Attached photos show where you can find our mailbox.

berryessacharter.org

Over 150 supporters came to our public hearing yesterday. Great thanks to all BICS volunteers and supporters!

Petition formally submitted!