Herty Staff members dressed as book characters to celebrate a little Halloween costume competition. Click on “read more” to see pictures of this fun event.

For Halloween, Herty Primary students may dress up in a book-character inspired costume on Friday, October 30th. Click on “read more” for some sample costumes reflecting some of our student’s favorite books! Get creative with your costume ideas and/or check out Pinterest for lots of fun ways to dress up!

Individual pictures will be taken Wednesday, November 4th. Please check your students’ backpack for more information.

Shout out to our PTK for surprising staff with a Reese’s cup! Feeling appreciated!

Assistant Principal Amanda Gentry celebrates Friday’s with the Prize Patrol Cart. Students are rewarded with prizes for various brags, such as top dojo earner, most improved dojo earner, reaching the 25, 50 or 75 book goal in AR or being an awesome citizen at Herty Primary. The kids love hearing their name called over the announcements and getting a prize from the Patrol!

Mrs. Cobb’s first grade has been learning about pumpkins and wrapped up the week by carving one. Click on “read more” to see more pictures of students scraping and scooping out the strands and seeds from their pumpkin.

Herty first graders are rolling right along learning about nouns, writing about Halloween costumes and personal experiences, making connections, creating pumpkin/jackolantern art and addition and subtraction. Click on “read more” to see samples of their work.

Brad Stewart, with LISD Technology Department, graciously funded a grant for Ms. Tobin and Ms. Tierney’s Special Education classes at Herty Primary. The grant provided two iPads and Think & Learn Smart Cycles to support kinesthetic learning. Mr. Stewart, THANK YOU for your generosity! Our teachers had no idea he was going to do this for them. They were so excited! Click on “read more” for additional pictures.

Miss Dunn’s class is learning about pumpkins in science. They are growing pumpkin sprouts in a pumpkin! Click on “read more” for more pictures of the class.

Herty 2nd graders have been learning about nouns and verbs recently. Click on “read more” to see some samples of their great writing.

Click on the photo or “read more” to see the impact of reading just 20 minutes per day.

Today is World Teacher Day. Whataburger recognizes Herty teachers for all they’re doing for students during these uncertain times. Thank you, Chris Johnson and Maci Herrington Dover, for the encouragement and morale booster! It is appreciated!

In honor of National Custodial Appreciation Day, Herty celebrates Ms. Cathy, Mr. Jorge and Ms. Sylvia. Thank you for all you do to make our school so clean! Check back later for pictures of our fabulous custodians!

Student’s at Herty Primary are reading and testing in the Accelerated Reading Program. These 2nd grader’s are recognized for their efforts on the Mario Bros “Level Up” bulletin board. As each student meets his/her reading goal, they are rewarded with their name on the cloud. As the year progresses, we’ll see many students move across this interactive reading-comprehension game board. Click on “read more” for more pictures.

Mrs. Miller’s 2nd graders are awesome writers! Click on “read more” for more pictures of Mrs. Miller’s student’s work.

MASKS ARE MANDATORY TO RIDE THE BUS! Please make sure your child has a mask daily.

In honor of National Thank a Police Officer Day, Herty Primary students and staff recognized School Resource Officer Tamesha Forrest in appreciation for all she does to keep the campus safe. Click on “read more” for more pictures of Officer Forrest and student work!

The “grant patrol” visited Herty this morning. We are excited to be the recipient of one grant winner, James Wade, Bit Coding Robot Parade. The Bit Coding Robot Parade utilizing Bit Bots will help create engaging lessons for special education students at Herty Primary. The students will draw characters from a story and tape them to the tops of the robot. They will draw out the character plot to show where the character went and what the character did. The robots will also be used in math curriculum and building critical thinking skills.

Covid restrictions won’t keep our kids from getting library books! Mrs. Aunchalee rolls her cart to the students at Herty Primary. Click on “read more” for pictures of a student checking in his Accelerated Reader books and getting new ones.

Angie Fuller is a difference maker. She works with students who have learning disabilities at Herty Primary in a Content Mastery class where every day she provides support to Kindergarten through 2nd grade children.

All students riding the bus MUST wear their masks! Please talk to your child about keeping their masks handy. Responsibility is key here.

Please connect to your child’s class through DOJO. Invitations to join the class have been sent through email and/or text. Herty Primary uses DOJO for class stories, assignments, reminders, personal private messages and point systems for behavior. Check any email or phone number that has been given during registration!

Mrs. Glenda Keel, mother to Principal Jill Riggs, makes some awesome pickles every year. She grows a beautiful garden and she shares her bounty with us here at Herty! Thank you, Mrs. Keel, for catering to the staff at Herty Primary.

Shoutout to Lufkin’s First Baptist Church for blessing our Herty Staff with Chick Fil-A! Thank you all for thinking of us!!

Students in Heather Jacks’ class made Text to Self Connections last week with the fun read-aloud The Relatives Came. Click on read more for a few samples from these savvy second graders!