The FAB LAB Visits Heritage Fourth Grade!

This week fourth grade teachers and students used the Heritage Library as a Maker Space to manipulate 2-D Inkscape CAD software. During this process, students worked to engineer and design their own foam core gliders after a study on aerodynamics, gravity, lift, and drag. Laser cutters allowed each student to create their own glider based from their own precise measurement specifications. The Carnegie Science Center team did an extraordinary job in their delivery of instruction and support. Binky Sargent from Kennametal, responsible for the $15,000 grant, was on hand to observe. High school students were integral in filming and interviewing the fourth graders. Please take a moment to enjoy a video snapshot of this unique experience!

Mobile Fab Lab Video

Donuts with Dad 2017

Last week Heritage fathers piled in to the Heritage cafeteria to enjoy breakfast donuts with their children before school . This popular PTO sponsored event provides a low key opportunity for dads to spend a little extra time interacting with their children and other dads of kids who attend school with their children. Spending this extra time together started the school (and work) day off to a great start for all participants!

   

       

5th Grade Presents: Alice’s Adventures with Idioms

5^th grade actors and actresses followed a cat and dog down the rabbit hole and arrived in...the land of idioms -and what a crazy place it was!  Directed by Christine Klemstine, students played all the parts of the familiar Wonderland characters including: the White Rabbits, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the Mad Hatter and March Hare, the Cheshire Cat, and the King and Queen of Hearts. All were there to share their mixed up advice as they helped Alice and her pets along the curious world of the English language.

  

2nd grade celebrates Dr. Seuss' birthday

2nd graders in Miss Kilbury and Mrs. Morton's classroom enjoyed celebrating Dr. Seuss' birthday together on Thursday March 2, 2017.
The day started with an Author study involving the biography of Theodore Seuss Giesel.
Students then progressed in solving Seuss money and subtraction mathematics problems in pairs and teams.
Second grade students continued during the day immersed in a rich collection of literacy activities involving the mentor text read aloud of Green Eggs and Ham where students compared and contrasted the theme of the story and how it relates to their personal connection.
These second grade classes had a wonderful time studying America's most famous author and illustrator on Read Across America day.

March Poetry Posts

Every Saturday

By: Callie~4th Grade

Every Saturday

The clock hits seven

And I have to get up.

Every Saturday

I get ready

Barely awake.

Every Saturday

I struggle

As my eyes close.

Every Saturday

The sun burst on me

As I try to eat.

Every Saturday

I get in the car

And drive away.

Two Little Brothers

by Alethea~4th Grade

You’d have to be crazy

Or smart

Or experienced

To keep up with two brothers

Such as mine.

They’re like oil and water,

So why would you bother,

To get them to agree on anything.

You’d have to be crazy

Or smart

Or experienced

To keep up with two brothers

Such as mine.

They are always fighting,

And rarely uniting,

On anything they want.

You’d have to be crazy

Or smart

Or experienced

To keep up with two brothers

Such as mine.

They are really annoying,

Loud and roaring,

Which makes me want to scream!

You’d have to be crazy

Not smart

Not experienced

To love two brothers

Such as mine.

They might be little brats,

And when they mess up something you say “rats!”

But without them my life has

No adventure.