Day 4 – Some staff members were jolly, some filled with dread, but visions of pie danced in their heads. Herty PTK provided delicious pies for each staff member! Thanks PTK!

Day 5 -With lunch time approaching and a rumbling tummy, staff received a lunch that is yummy! Staff members enjoyed a wonderful lunch of baked potatoes with more toppings than you can dream up and a salad, dessert and drink of choice! MMMMMMMMM!

Day 6 – If out in the hallway there arises a clatter, it’s PTK coming with Snowman Soup on a platter! Thank you Herty PTK for the awesome creative hot chocolate (Snowman Soup) bags and super sweet cookies! Click on “read more” for pictures of these fun Christmas surprises!

'Twas the school year of COVID and all through the rooms, the staff wore face masks except when on Zooms!  Thanks to Mrs. Glenda Keel, Herty staff was treated to new masks! All  staff were kept  happy with jeans for December, lets make a...

Students in Mrs. Amy Miller’s classroom earned an awesome treat of cookies and milk aka Yahoo chocolate drink! These treats were actually the class Mystery Motivator earned by the students by demonstrating good manners, great behavior, willingness to learn ,respecting others and a variety of other great citizenship actions. These students didn’t know what their prize would be until the jar was full. Mrs. Miller read the well-loved book If You Give a Mouse A Cookie and surprised them with cookies and Yahoo chocolate drink. Congratulations Mrs. Miller’s class!

Herty staff treated with pie!

On December 2nd, National Special Education Day recognizes changes in federal legislation that led to the nation’s first federal special education law. Click on “read more” for more information.

Click on “read more” to access the link to order books.

Click on “read more” to watch Herty’s Veteran’s Day Program.

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.