PBL came to life today as the awesome volunteers from the Marine Lab at Concordia came to share their knowledge of habitat diversity! Our innovation lab was a great place to host those neat creatures! Heritage Elementary #TUSDthrives

We had a traveling scientist come yesterday and he taught us so much out the 5 R’s (recycling,reuse, repurpose,rot and reduce). Heritage Elementary

They are really using their resources in writer’s workshop! I am loving these plastic stands that have reminders of what they are working on in each group. Apparently, they are liking them too! Heritage Elementary #tusdTHRIVES

Shoutout to these awesome kiddos who did an awesome job with digital storytelling today! Heritage Elementary #tusdTHRIVES

We have been reading ‘The Wild Robot’ and today during our morning meeting the students got into mini grand conversation groups and they discussed whether they would want to be Roz or Brightbill. There reasoning behind it was great! Heritage Elementary

Thank you Pacific Symphony for such a fun day! The kids said,”this is the best field trip ever!” #ClassAct Heritage Elementary

These kiddos have blown me away with their poetry. They shared in small groups and then so many of them wanted to share in front of the class. Heritage Elementary #tusdTHRIVES

Math 360 today was so neat! The level of engagement was incredible and they were so up for the challenge! #TUSDthrives Heritage Elementary

Day of Design Challenge: create a game that could be played at recess on the playground. These students rose to the challenge and went through the entire design process today and their finished products were so creative! #TUSDthrives Heritage Elementary

Summer STEAM Academy is off to a fun start! These kiddos used tinkercad to design their first project for the 3D printer. #tusdthrives #TPSF

On the 4th day of school I threw a challenging problem at my kiddos, and in groups they got to solve any way they could. We did a gallery walk as our share out, and I loved seeing their interest in other students’ strategies! #tusdthrives Heritage Elementary

Stretching our brains today. We kept pushing to higher thinking. Getting to see how their minds work is pretty cool!

Describing the properties of matter. We realized the amount of things that could be described was endless! Heritage Elementary

These kiddos did an amazing job showing the kindergartners what they learned during their matter PBL. #tusdthrives Heritage Elementary

The math warm up: ‘Pizza Bagel Donut’, was a hit on their own whiteboards! It looks like they are writing in code. Heritage Elementary

Yesterday we were in the picking stage of our writing process. They were having their partner read all of their drafts to see which was their best piece. Such concentration! Heritage Elementary

Today is Global Kindness Day, but this kiddo shows kindness everyday by bringing me a little flower after recess and holding the door for all of the teachers. #heritagebekind2019 Heritage Elementary

Continuing to spread kindness over here in room 408. One of my students went home and made a little positive message to give to everyone in our class! #heritagebekind2019 Heritage Elementary

After learning about slow and quick changes to the earth, we talked about fires in Australia and how quickly it is changing the land.The students decided they would help by collecting coins for a koala foundation. These second graders did an amazing job and raised $1,789.18!!!

My class and I tested out jamboard today and we had a blast! Look at those detailed math explanations!! Heritage Elementary