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If you’re a student at Travis Heights and have not met these furry friends, then make sure you do! When someone first hears that are art teacher has rats they might freak out. But once you get close to these cute, lovable, creatures there will be no turning your back. Badger and Moca first arrived […]
Market Day is fun because 3rd graders donate things and create their own stores. The students get prizes and much, much more. You can buy prizes with T-bills with faces of our 3rd grade teachers: Mr. Myers, Ms.Esquivel, and Ms. Mefford. I hope you get you prizes like when I was in 3rd grade. I […]
In Travis Heights this year a guest artist cam. He came to Ms. Freeman’s room. The room number was 409. He is going to be drawing something and inspiring other kids to draw. This is the first year he has come. It’s one of the other students dad. He was sketching. In my opinion I […]
Travis Heights Elementary has its own library with almost every book in the world poems, including nonfiction, fiction, graphic novel, scary, Korean, Spanish, Texas 2 by 2 books, bluebonnets and fairy tales. There is even a kiva where our library’s stuffed dog Bankes has books in his doghouse. The librarian, Mrs.Underwood, picks a book and reads […]
In October 2017, Cafe Monet had a festival or party where we got to paint little clay pumpkins. It was really fun. They gave you little clay pumpkins and you would sit at a table and they would give you paint and brushes. There was a snack table with donut hole spiders and fruit. There […]
Hello, we go to math with Ms. Mefford, and we study perimeter. We measure the sides and add all of the sides to find the perimeter. To find the area, we get square centimeter cubes and line all of them up inside of the shape and then count them. How many cubes you have is […]
4th grade is reading the book One and Only Ivan. The book is about a gorilla that lives in the zoo with his friends. Everyday we respond to questions in our reading response journal in Spanish. Our class is enjoying it very much. Dual-language is reading it in Spanish. Here are some words from […]
It’s bright, colorful, and fun! On March 10th there was a wild, crazy Spirit Day at Travis Heights Elementary. On that day, kids grades Kinder to 5th celebrated by wearing crazy neon outfits. Everywhere you looked there were hundreds of kids in bright, exuberant colors. Student council organized this event and many others. Three cheers […]
The Regional Science Fair is the city science fair. People from all over Austin, Bastrop and Round Rock are welcome. The fair was located in the Palmer Events Center next to the Long Center. There were over three thousand projects, but don’t worry people from Bastrop round rock and Austin are welcome
Young writers workshop has recently occurred in the Travis Heights community. It is an event where experienced writers join us to help us embrace our imaginations and write. This is the 21st year that Travis Heights has hosted this event As we exited the gym doors from the presentation, some fellow community members shared their […]
In fifth grade Mr. Bustillos’s class got a new class pet, or should I say pets. This fifth grade classroom got meal worms. The pet may sound uncommon, may sound weird, but we got them at the perfect time. We got them the very week that we were learning about metamorphosis. As we started learning […]
