Wordsmith Champions

Heritage students won first place today at the Westmoreland County Language Arts Thinking Games hosted by Greater Latrobe. The winning wordsmiths included fifth graders, Julianne, Katelynn, and Skye, and fourth grader, Riley!  Congratulations to this all girl team on their amazing word skills!

Cooking in the Classroom

Miss Wetzler's new cooking program, the result of a recent impact grant through the Westmoreland Intermediate Unit Foundation, has already taught the children so much.  It provides great opportunities for her students to talk about health and nutrition, allowing them to build healthy habits early in life.  The curriculum Miss Wetzler's class currently uses focuses on recipes from around the world and allows the students to learn about traditions and other cultures.  Most importantly, cooking in the classroom helps her students become problem solvers and teaches them how to work as a team to accomplish a goal.

WTAE Visits Heritage

Meteorologist Ray Petelin from WTAE paid a visit to Heritage Elementary today for an educational science and weather experience. Sponsored and organized by the PTO, Heritage students explored extreme weather conditions through live experiments conducted by the Carnegie Science Center. Students were guided through simulations of pressure and electricity. Heritage was also proud to present WTAE with a generous donation check of $300 for Project Bundle Up. A snapshot of this assembly was featured on the 5:30 WTAE news. If you missed it, you can catch it on WTAE's website.