Howard B. Thomas Grade School
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HBT Newsletters 24-25
HBT Newsletters for the 24-25 School Year Each month HBT posts a newsletter. You can return to this post to find the previous newsletters for the school year. June 2025 May 2025 April 2025 March 2025 February 2025 January 2025 December 2024 November 2024 October 2024 September 2024 August 2024
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Ice Cream, Trucks, & Books
Ice Cream Social, Touch A Truck, and Book Fair On Wednesday, April 23rd, HBT PTO hosted their annual Ice Cream Social, Touch A Truck, and BOGO Book Fair event that was fun for all ages. The weather was great and the students and families had a great time. You can tell by all of the…
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1st Grade Field Trip
1st Grade Field Trip On Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025, the HBT 1st graders took their second field trip of the school year where they visited the Discovery Museum. Students got to explore, use their imagination, and take their learning to the next level with many hands on activities. There was something for everyone to engage…
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Book Fair
BOGO Book Fair is here The Scholastic BOGO Book Fair is here at HBT. Students are shopping the book fair with their classes during their scheduled library times. The book fair will be open to families to shop on Wednesday night from 5pm – 7pm during out Ice Cream Social event. Let’s help build a…
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Parent University
The First HBT Parent University Was A Success On the evening of April 15th, 2025, Principal Lewis hosted her first Virtual Parent University event. The event was focused on athletics and activities available to District 301 elementary students outside of the school day. It was all about sharing opportunities that are not only fun and…
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Reading Madness
Twister Reading Madness Comes To An End After many weeks of students listening to various children’s books and voting on their favorite one, Twister Reading Madness came to an end on Friday, March 28th. The bracket brought us to the top two books: The Knight Owl and Buffalo Fluffalo. The book that came out on…
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HBT Artists
HBT Artists K – 5 Kindergarten We did it! Kindergarten students finally finished their first experience with Kiln Fire Clay. The students used stamping and the sgraffito technique to personalize their clay. Once the clay was fired in the kiln, students glazed their clay with up to six color choices. Mrs. Danz added a little…
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SPOT
SPOT the Attendance Dog Visits 2nd Grade Each week SPOT the Attendance Dog travels to the classroom that had the least number of absences during the week. Last week SPOT visited Mrs. Linder’s class. During SPOT’s visit the students filled out a STAR student page for SPOT and they wrote books with SPOT as the…
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Reward Day
2nd Grade – Mrs. Farley hosts a Reward Day The students in Mrs. Farley’s 2nd grade class earned a reward day. They cashed in on their reward day today by using their imagination to CREATE using various materials from around the school. They were also able to using their coding skills to train the robots…
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BINGO Night
HBT PTO hosts a BINGO Night On Friday, March 14th, the HBT PTO hosted a family BINGO night. The students and their family members enjoyed multiple games of BINGO while playing for large prize baskets while staff and CHS student volunteers helped sell concessions.
