Heritage Hill Elementary -

Our annual student voted staff Halloween costume contest at Heritage Hill was a great success this year! So many fun and creative costumes: Bumper cars 🏎️ Soccer Players & Referees ⚽️🥅 Spice Girls 👩‍🍳🧑‍🍳🌶️🫚 Chick-Fil-A 🐄🍗 Toy Story 👽💜💚 Dunkin' Donuts 🍩 🏀 Thing 1 & Thing 2 💙❤️ Labubus 👹 Ghosts 👻 Glue 🧡💙 Trick-Or-Treaters 🧙‍♀️👻🤠 6 7 6️⃣7️⃣ Which group is your favorite? The winners were: 🥇- Mrs. Sonnek, Mrs. Forse, Mrs. Akemon Team 6️⃣7️⃣ with 120 votes 🥈- Mr. Tim, Mrs. Young, Miss Maddy, Ms. Araceli, Mrs. Lastra and Mrs. Christina Soccer Players & Referees ⚽️ with 80 votes 🥉- Mrs. Jones, Mrs. Long & Mrs. Grant Labubus 👹 With 59 votes Way to bring the fun Heritage Hill staff! You can view the voting video here: https://youtu.be/xi2IcAvXomY?feature=shared 🎉 Stay safe tonight & Happy Halloween! 🎃

Princesses, pirates, cowboys, characters, costumes galore! Heritage Hill students dressed in their Halloween best for a spooktacular day! Wishing our sweetest trick or treaters & all the Princeton community a safe and Happy Halloween! 🎃 👻 #VikesLeadTheWay #AAGV

As October/Principal's Month comes to a close, Heritage Hill wants to recognize Mrs. Lastra for her incredible dedication to our students, staff and family! She goes above and beyond to ensure the safety and well-being of each student and staff member is a priority! Thank you for all you do each and every day, Mrs. Lastra! You are a Viking #DifferenceMaker! ❤️🩶#VikesLeadTheWay #AAGV

Mrs. Jones' 2nd grade class at Heritage Hill has been busy putting their new Wit & Wisdom reading strategies to work! Here they are in Socratic Seminar discussing the similarities and differences in the changes of The Little Yellow Leaf and the chameleon in A Color of His Own. #VikesLeadTheWay #AAGV

Heritage Hill Viking Circle groups October meeting! We focused on kindness and empathy which is a perfect tie in to anti-bullying month! We love this special time of vertical/across the grade connection to focus on social-emotional learning and building stronger relationships student to student and staff to student! #VikesLeadTheWay #AAGV

Heritage Hill had a great start to the 2nd quarter this week! Lots of smiling faces happy to be back at school! And those silly teachers must've gotten dressed in the dark on Friday, none of their shoes matched! 🤣🥿👟🥾👞 #VikesLeadTheWay #AAGV

Please join us in celebrating National Principals Month by showing appreciation for our hard-working, dedicated, caring principal at Heritage Hill Elementary: Erika Zaleta Lastra!

Thank you, Principal Lastra, for leading the way!

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It's school bus safety week and Heritage Hill would like to give a huge shout out to the amazing bus drivers who keep our students safe each day getting to and from school! Bus drivers play such a vital role in our students educations and we are grateful for all they do! Thank you Heritage Hill bus drivers! #VikesLeadTheWay #AAGV

Happy Positive T-Shirt Tuesday from Heritage Hill! We especially love these student designed shirts that say Empowering each student to ACHIEVE their personal BEST! Go Vikes! #VikesLeadTheWay #AAGV

👣 More Heritage Hill Walk-A-Thon Highlights 👣 Special thanks to the Princeton High School Girls Basketball Team, parents, and staff for all of the effort put in to make this such a fun day for our students! #WalkAThon #VikesLeadTheWay #AAGV

An absolutely beautiful day for Heritage Hill's walk-a-thon! Sunshine, friends, exercise, fundraising, raffle baskets, ice cream all make for a perfect way to end 1st quarter! Thank you to all of our volunteers who helped make today magical! Stay tuned for more pictures in the coming days! #WalkAThon #VikesLeadTheWay #AAGV

Future Teachers of America at Heritage Hill Elementary School today! 👩‍🏫 👨‍🏫 Briefcases, lanyards, fake glasses, dresses, suits and ties, and car rider duty in action! Some students dressed as specific Heritage Hill staff (who dressed like students today). Some students even led morning meeting for their homerooms! Way to go Heritage Hill student "teachers"! 😉 #VikesLeadTheWay #AAGV

So many great photos from Twinning Tuesday at Heritage Hill, we had to make another post celebrating everyone who participated in this fun spirit day! 👯‍♂️Happy Twin Tuesday! #TwinDay #SpiritWeek #VikesLeadTheWay #AAGV

We're seeing double!! So many great twin, triplet and quintuplet outfits today at Heritage Hill! So much fun! 🤩 👯 Tomorrow is: Students dress like teachers Teachers dress like students We can't wait to see our students dress like young professionals! 😍 #TwinDay #SpiritWeek #VikesLeadTheWay #AAGV

Spirit week starting off strong at Heritage Hill with everyone in their fun pajamas! Tomorrow is twin day- find a friend to match with! We can't wait to see what creative ideas our students come up with tomorrow! #SpiritWeek #VikesLeadTheWay #AAGV

🔥 Heritage Hill October Blazing Vikings 🔥 Congratulations to the October 2025 Blazing Vikings at Heritage Hill! These students show leadership skills in all areas of school and are constantly being proactive! Way to be awesome student leaders and role models Heritage Hill Little Vikes! #VikesLeadTheWay #AAGV

Yesterday Mrs. Buchanan's class at Heritage Hill made Contest Cobbler. All the students did a fantastic job doing their part! Judging by these sweet smiles and two thumbs up, I'd say this was a very tasty and successful lesson! 🥧 Great job, Mrs. Buchanan & class! #VikesLeadTheWay #AAGV

🎁 Congratulations to Heritage Hill's Early Bird Walk-A-Thon Fundraising Winners! 🎁 These 19 winners have helped us get 2/5 of the way to our fundraising goal of $5,000 by bringing in money early! Their names were entered into a raffle and these were the winners! We have 91 more baskets to raffle off next Thursday during Walk-A-Thon! If you'd like to help us reach our goal of $5,000, stop by the Heritage Hill front office any day next week and donate cash! #VikesLeadTheWay #AAGV

Heritage Hill students are loving their Tuesday and Thursday afternoons with City Gospel Missions Character Soccer Camp! Students are learning skills, drills, and developing important character traits at the same time. What a great program- we are so thankful to be partnered with! #CharacterSoccer #VikesLeadTheWay #AAGV