For the 2020-2021 school year, the Photojournalism Team will be working remotely.
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Donating to Austin Pets Alive was really fun. We got to hold pets, and we got to pet some, and there was even one named Genevieve. She was a sweet cat. I wish I could have taken one home with me! I want to volunteer for Austin Pets Alive. I wish I worked there. I […]
We are learning how to log into Google Classroom so we can communicate and remember our assignments. This week we will be meeting with a photographer to learn how to take new pictures. Look for our new posts in October!
This was a very fun project. When we started the project, we read City of Ember. We read a chapter a day. When we finished the book we got to watch the movie which was not like the book at all. While we were reading the book we learned vocabulary. Some of the vocabulary we […]
Interviewing Ms. Medina, a student teacher Who/What inspired you to be a teacher? “My cousin inspired me, I had him as a teacher in 1st grade. It interested me how he teached everyone.” Why did you want to become a teacher? “I was a teacher for tutoring, and I liked the point of helping […]
4th grade is reading Wonder,by R. J. Palacio, in class. We are reading Wonder to learn about kindness and empathy. The book is about a boy who has a face deformation and is going to school for the first time. In the beginning when he first went he had fun but then something happens and […]
In Fourth Grade we are working on a projects called tiny houses. It focuses on area and perimeter. We have to design it, make a draft, and make a 3 dimensional version. Then we work on landscaping. Mine has a treehouse, a zipline, a hot tub, and a rope ladder. After you are done drawing […]
This was last month’s project on how to do business in the fourth grade classes. We learned what profit, loans, investing and finances. This 4th grader is working on finances on the computer and was working with a partner on slides. Once they were done, the sharks from Shark Tank came to Travis Heights School to see the 4th […]
On March 3rd the Shamrock Dance was on!!!!!! The DJ at the Shamrock Dance was a fourth grade student’s dad. He played all of our favorite songs. Students from 3rd through 5th grade got to go. We did this to celebrate. St.Patrick’s Day and to raise money for a field trip to the Alamo and […]
We want to thank the 4th and 5th grade parents that helped organize the Shamrock Dance. Starting at 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm. This is a booth stand where they were selling popcorn. There were popcorn stands, water stands and a cookie stand. This is Marco’s mom and Eduardo’s mom working on the popcorn stand […]
In art we are drawing magical trees. The trees have creative patterns on them. The whole class works quietly while listening to 94.7 on the radio. These are some of the colors we are using to make our trees POP.
Here we have Roisin working on a post for the Photo Journalism team. We work in a room where we can concentrate, it’s very quiet. We usually work at lunchtime on Thursdays . The post Roisin is working on is called “Fourth Grade Music”.
