Howard B. Thomas Grade School
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HBT Fire Safety
HBT Fire Safety Week 2025 During the week of October 6th, the Burlington Fire Department is partnering with HBT to host various fire prevention and fire safety discussions. Students got to see a fire truck, visit a smoke house, or have a fireman/firewoman visit their classroom. In addition, some of the older students participated in…
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HBT Newsletter
HBT’s October Newsletter To view the October 2025 newsletter, please click HERE.
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HBT Reaches #7
HBT is ranked #7 in Kane County HBT was recently ranked #7 in Kane County of all elementary and middle schools, according to chicagomag.com. While we’re not yet where we want to be with student attainment, we have seen steady, year-over-year growth in both ELA and Math—progress that contributed to our overall rating. This is…
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HBT 4th Graders Visit LeRoy Oakes
This was the best field trip ever!
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HBT Fall Fest
HBT’s Curriculum Night/Fall Fest Event On Wednesday, September 25th, 2025 the HBT PTO and HBT teaching staff put on a fun family event full of math activities, fall themed games, pumpkins, popcorn, face painting, cotton candy, the book fair, and food trucks! Check out the pictures below:
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HBT 1st Grade
HBT 1st Graders Are Learning Our 1st grade students are hearing from community workers. Not only are they learning about variuos community jobs they are also learning how to sit in a large audience and attend to a presentation. In addition, our 1st graders are engaging in Math differently this year through the i-Ready resource.
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HBT Reads to Dogs
HBT Reads to Dogs Monthly Each month students are chosen by their teachers for exhibiting the Care Code. If they are selected, the students have the opportunity to read with some comfort dogs in the library. Here are a few pictures from this month’s visit with the dogs.
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HBT Spirit Week #2
HBT Celebrates Homecoming Week With A Spirit Week HBT continued to celebrate homecoming week with a Camo Day, TURBO-palooza day, and a Blue & White Day! Check out some of the fun we had showing our school spirit.
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HBT Spirit Week
HBT Celebrates Homecoming with a Spirit Week During the week of September 15th, HBT celebrated homecoming with a school wide spirit week. Monday was Disney Day and Tuesday was Sports Day! See pictures below from our two days so far! More to come on Wednesday’s Camo Day, Thursday’s TURBOpalooza, and Friday’s Blue & White Day.…
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HOUSE Reveal
Kindergarten HOUSE Reveal Day 2025 Today, September 8th, the Kindergarteners were assigned to the HOUSE that they will be a part of for the duration of their time at HBT! Students were given a scratch off card that revealed their house color and then Ms. Rourke used Science to teach the students about their house…
