It was a fun filled day yesterday in our classroom. We worked on sight words with wikki Stix and our buddies and started our measurement unit. Then we had a guest reader, Ms. Passero, our assistant principal.Village Elementary (Hilton) Hilton CSD #mrsrootsclassadventures

We had our first guest reader on Friday. Thank you, Lora Bower for a great story. Village Elementary (Hilton) Hilton CSD #mrsrootsclassadventures

It doesn’t seem that long ago that Zach was at Village!

Thanks to all these early morning helpers for getting the Village pumpkin patch ready for students! Also thank you to Blodgett Farm for all the pumpkins!

Village pumpkin patch! Thank you, Blodgett Farm, for great pumpkins.Village Elementary (Hilton) Hilton CSD #mrsrootsclassadventures

We created our own pumpkin patch at Village with pumpkins from Blodgett’s Farm. Students in grades K-2 got to go outside and pick a pumpkin to take home! 🎃

More pictures from our Village pumpkin patch! Students got to pick out a Blodgett's Farm pumpkin to take home with them

The Big Crunch! Kirby’s donated apples for everyone in the school. All the classes went into the hallways and at the same time everyone bit into their delicious New York apple 🍎

Today, we celebrated #nationalbreadstickday! Thank you Caroligos, for the wonderful breadsticks. They were delicious. Village Elementary (Hilton) Hilton CSD #mrsrootsclassadventures

Grades 4-6 ready for the assembly! #PBIS

Some of our grades 4-6 students and teachers demonstrated risk taking and cooperation during our assembly today. They participating in minute to win it games- mummify the teacher and get the balls out of the Kleenex box! #PBIS

This month, our amazing 5th graders met with author Tricia DellAnno and her therapy dogs. We also connected with her illustrator, Jim Pearson, who shared his art work from Finding Nemo; Toy Story 2 and Ant Bully. Truly amazing! Hilton CSD Tricia DellAnno Village Elementary (Hilton)

Lots of fun learning in 5th grade last week. We visited the Bullock Museum in Texas to learn about the Spanish conquistadors and we also met with author, Lois Brandt in Washington to support our school wide food drive. Hilton CSD Village Elementary (Hilton) Lois Brandt Jeff

We celebrated Halloween with a virtual visit to learn about Bats withTexas and we also had fun exercising with Go Noodle. Lots of spooky treats and fun, luckily no tricks.👍🎃 Hilton CSD Village Elementary (Hilton) Texas Wildlife Assoc GoNoodle - find us on BSKY!

No Tech Tuesday! Students in Mrs. Heise's first grade class enjoyed reading by flashlight

We read All Are Welcome with our buddies and thought about ways we can make everyone feel welcome to our class. Village Elementary (Hilton) Hilton CSD #mrsrootsclassadventures

Today and last Friday we met with the Smithsonian Museum of American Art to learn about the Indigenous people from America. ⁦Hilton CSD⁩ ⁦americanart⁩ ⁦Village Elementary (Hilton)⁩

We have so much artistic talent in this building! Here are yearbook covers submitted by students with the winner in the middle 🎨

My first ever “Caught Ya”! I was caught (no pun intended) off guard a bit… 😂. Thank you to whoever nominated me Village Elementary (Hilton). It was incredibly kind and thoughtful of you 😊.

Author Chris Grabenstein (Chris Grabenstein) met with the students at our school to talk about his book Escape From Mr. Lemoncello’s Library, after the students/families all read it for our One School, One Book! Such a fun presentation and Q&A session!! 📚 🍋