I love building relationships with my students. It’s not just about academics. You know you’re doing something right when last years student who is virtual drops you off a gift at book bag exchange ❤️ Heritage Elementary Tustin Unified #heritagestrong

Launching Read across America by reading our book provided by the PTA together! Heritage Elementary Tustin Unified #wearetusd

We’ve had an amazing line up of readers for Read Across America this year at Heritage! Thank you @jackiemobooks for reading to our students. What a wonderful message about opening your mind to new ideas! #heritagestrong Heritage Elementary Tustin Unified

Thank you @bobbyokereke for reading to our school! You are an inspiration to all and we loved the book you read! Love the message of being YOU: being persistent, kind, brave, patient, and to never stop being different! Heritage Elementary Tustin Unified

Bringing on the fun dressing like Mrs. Frizzle today for my students to celebrate Read Across America! Heritage Elementary Tustin Unified

Grateful to have a guest speaker to teach our 2nd graders about entrepreneurship as they wrap up their Social Studies PBL designing a business of their own. Thank you Mrs.Lee for sharing her development of the sightreading music app called Note Quest.Heritage Elementary Tustin Unified

Grateful to have a previous student talk to our 2nd grade students about the importance of preparation for their STEAM Wax museum and modeling her speech from last year! Student supporting students! Heritage Elementary Tustin Unified

Loved having my daughter share her business, Cali’s Cool Succulents with the 2nd graders to spike their interest as they create their own business proposal this week! Kids teaching kids about entrepreneurship! Heritage Elementary Tustin Unified

It hurts to say goodbye. I have loved my journey with Dr.RB that started with opening our school. She’s an amazing leader and I can’t wait to see her SOAR to the next level in her career. We will miss you dearly. Heritage Elementary Tustin Unified

Highlight this week!! Our class got a shoutout from ujuvideos !!!! We’ve been so excited waiting to see when our name would pop up! Heritage Elementary Tustin Unified

Connections... even through a screen... That to me is what is vital that we build this year and when I dropped off a hot chocolate packet for our digital marble reward to a students house and I see this note my ❤️ is filled with so much 💕Heritage Elementary Tustin Unified

Fun day celebrating dot day with QuiverVision . The students were so excited to see augmented reality.Heritage Elementary #wearetusd

Heritage celebrating International Dot Day! Teaching the students about creativity, being themselves, and making a mark on the world. Showing them we can be brave too by singing in front of the school ❤️ Heritage Elementary #wearetusd

Thank you @Flipgrid for bringing us @peterhreynolds LIVE on International Dot Day dot day! What a fun way to celebrate! Heritage Elementary #wearetusd

The book fair is coming!! The book fair will be open 9/20-9/24 from 7:30am-1:00pm. The book fair will also be open during movie night on 9/24 from 4:30pm-6:30pm. A portion of the proceeds go towards the Heritage library

Wrapping up part of our Earth Science unit by connecting to this big world and helping our school community. Our first guest speaker, Mr. Avalos, who is a Heritage parent and volunteer who talked to us about the recycling program and how we can help. Heritage Elementary #wearetusd

Our next guest speaker was our custodian Mr. Joaquin! Our wonderful custodian talked to our 2nd graders about the impact we can have if we help make a difference in campus clean up. Can’t wait to see our ripple affect and have others pay it forward! Heritage Elementary #wearetusd

3,2,1 ACTION! One of my favorite parts of being an educator is watching our PBL come to life through digital storytelling. 2nd grade is working on connecting to their world and community to promote campus clean up and recycling. Heritage Elementary Tustin Unified #wearetusd