WOW! Our PTO created a truly magical entrance for the Enchanted Forest Scholastic Book Fair 🌳 🧚🏼‍♀️ 🍄 Heartland Elementary BV LibraryMedia Scholastic

First snow of the season ❄️

Heartland’s second annual CANstruction brought in 1,930 cans for Shawnee Community Services. Our creative students worked together to CANstruct these masterpieces. Heartland Elementary BV LibraryMedia

Spent the morning planning, creating, and testing our own Mayflower ships. Our goal: Design a Mayflower ship that will hold the most Pilgrims (pennies) while staying afloat.

One last group hug for our awesome student teacher, Ms. Lawyer! We will miss her so much!

My favorite lesson of the entire semester. ❤️ Embracing diversity is what these 1st graders do so well. BV LibraryMedia Heartland Elementary

Air popped popcorn brings pure joy to all! Had so much fun this morning learning more about one of our favorite foods produced in Kansas: corn! Heartland Elementary

We had so much fun learning about the Caldecott Award and reading some of this year’s contenders with our 4th grade buddies!

Look at these little sunflowers 🌻 Happy Kansas Day!

1st grade spent the morning learning about dental health from Ms. Regier’s dad, Dr. Regier of Ryan Dental! Thanks so much for coming and teaching us more about oral hygiene! Ryan Dental LLC

The sound of pure joy at Wonder Wednesday! #wwhrt HRT LMC-Sara Aitken

Spent the morning in our “1st Grade Pizzeria” for our unit on goods and services. We all had a chance to be costumers, servers, and to work in different roles in our pizza kitchen! Heartland Elementary

The book “Tops and Bottoms” was the literature connection with our STEM lesson on eating a whole plant for the 1st and K students. Who knew broccoli 🥦 is a flower? Heartland Elementary BV LibraryMedia

Practiced using non-standard units of measurement (connecting cubes) to measure the outlines of our classmates on this beautiful spring day!

Wonder Wednesday last week was an engineering lesson based on 21 Elephants & Still Standing 🐘 (4th grade) and Counting Crocodiles 🐊 (1st). Heartland Elementary BV LibraryMedia #wwhrt

Eating plants in the library? You bet when these 1st graders are learning the parts of a plant with a variety of veggies. This tasty lesson started with the book, Tops & Bottoms. 🥦🌽🥕🥬Heartland Elementary BV LibraryMedia #wwhrt

1st graders learned about the forces associated with flight by creating “Red” from one of the most gorgeous illustrated book, “Red and Lulu.” BV LibraryMedia Heartland Elementary #wwhrt

We had a great two weeks celebrating Read Across America & Dr. Seuss’ birthday with plenty of special activities. Here’s a “Oh The Places You’ll Go” Breakout. BV LibraryMedia Heartland Elementary

Thank you for every… Laser Hit Double Play Turned Hop at Second Filthy Jersey Electric Soundbite World Series Championship

It was quite the ride. Thank you and congratulations, Tom Brady.