For the 2020-2021 school year, the Photojournalism Team will be working remotely.
Their work will continue to be published here.
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The wonderful Ms.Friedman has created a team of students that publishes the news about Travis Heights Elementary. She wants to get the kids’ perspective on what’s going on at school or in the community. She uses 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students. She makes sure we’re doing the best we can do. She gives all […]
Hi! I’m Puppypaw! If you’re like me, you like to swim. Next door to our school there is a pool called Big Stacy. It has lap swimming lanes, a kiddy pool (shallow area), a deep end, and lots of fun. If you go to Travis Heights Elementary, in 1st grade you get free swim lessons […]
Ice Cream Social At the ice cream social you do three things: Find out your teacher, meet your teacher, and get Ice cream or a popsicle. Find out your teacher When you walk into the building there is a bulletin board with every class on it. Find your grade and look for your name, […]
This year as a project in 4th grade we are doing a immigration and migration interview. We are expected to find a person that is not our parents to interview and that came from another continent, country, or state. Then we are expected to ask them different questions like: Where were you born? Why did […]
The new principal of Travis Heights is Michelle Amezquita Navarro. When Mrs. Navarro was four she had playdates with her friends, and she would play school. What made Mrs. Navarro like playing school so much was that she loved helping people, and now that she is an adult she loves seeing the potential in kids. […]
We have a new vice principal at Travis Heights Elementary and her name is Ms. De La Torre. She graduated from U.T. She worked in her hometown at Giddings Intermediate School, but she missed Austin. So switched to Riley Elementary School where she taught 3rd, 4th and 5th grades. She then decided to go to […]
Hi, I’m in Ms. Villanueva’s 4th grade class. This year in fourth grade we are doing a P.B.L. about immigrants and migrants who moved to Texas. We had to find a immigrant or migrant and interview them. Then we partnered up and made a podcast with all of the information we have learned. We asked […]
Our 5th grader photojournalists are given the opportunity to write for our neighborhood magazine, Life in Travis Heights. Check out some of the articles they wrote last year: Architecture in Travis Heights Gardens Around Austin The Coolest Things about the New Central Library
By Pandababy and Thesrocks It is sad news to say that our beloved Ms. Robertson has left Travis Heights Elementary School. She enjoys seeing us kids all around the school. She knows everybody’s name in the whole school. She has served as a principal for about 18 years. She loves the school and us, but […]
by Goldenmonkey and Fuzzylobster We learned that 1st grade was learning through a project involving butterflies. Here’s what we found out. How does camouflage work ? Camouflage is two different things hide from predators and hunt for prey. What did you learn? We interviewed a student named Penelope. She told us about the life cycle […]
One of the extra-curricular activities that we have here at Travis Heights is prime time. Prime time is a variety of after school activities that kids can participate in, from grades K – 5 and most run from 3:15 to 4:15. Many of the prime times are run by school teachers and it is cool […]
