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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4th Grade is reading the book Wonder by R.J. Palacio. It’s about a deformed boy who was home schooled. He never went to another school. He finally goes to public school and his perspective changes. This is the most heart-touching book ever! The only way you know it’s good is if you read it yourself.
We had our fall carnival on Friday the 27th of October. Some of the things functioning were booths. There were many booths, such as beanbag toss, hairspray, fortuneteller, and many others. When you walk into Travis Heights you buy your tickets and go have fun! They also provide a variety of food, such as pickles […]
At Camp Champions there is an awesome archery range. You went with your group leader to the range and waited for your turn. There were three different types of bows you could use, two types were for right handed people and one type were for the left handed. It was hard for most people. Only […]
Pam Muñoz Ryan published a book called Esperanza Rising. She published it in the year 2000, the book is actually 17 years old. Esperanza Rising is about a girl that is wealthy and she live in a ranch called El Rancho de las Rosas. Then something shocking happens to her dad then they become poor […]
Ms. Friedman is the photo journalism teacher at Travis Heights Elementary. She was a 5th grade and 4th grade teacher at Travis Heights. Then she retired and became the photo journalism teacher. What inspired her to be a teacher is she knew she wanted to be bilingual and work with children. She wanted to teach […]
Travis Heights has a new 5th grade dual language teacher, Mr. Carrillo. He wanted to teach at this school because it was closer to his home and because we are dedicated to having a successful dual language program. Also he came and met the 4th graders (now 5th graders) and really liked us. He has […]
For the past 18 years, Ms. Isoline has been the art teacher at Travis Heights Elementary School. In all of those years, the first project of the year has been Square 1 Art. Square 1 Art is a project where […]
Thank you for your patience as our Photogs work on providing amazing posts for this year. Here they are working hard today– Mrs. Freeman lets us use her room during her lunch time and planning period so that we can have a place work. Mrs. Friedman–THANK YOU!!
In 4th grade we are reading Wonder by R.J. Palacio and doing readers responses. We are having fun doing it. We are on the last part! This book is a great book for 9 year old’s to 45 year old’s.
It’s fun to get to know one another better, so the I decided to interview our school librarian, Ms. Underwood. And since she’s the librarian of course I asked her what she thought about her job. She answered, “I’ve been the Librarian here at THES for 13 years and I love being your Librarian!” I […]
We were so lucky today, because an amazing photographer came in to help our 4th graders think about ways to make our photos more interesting. She lives in the neighborhood and her name is Kirsten Niedzwecki. She even offered to come back and help us some more! Thank you, Kirsten! If you want to see […]
