Halls Cross Roads Elementary

Reading Night in the Garden 🪴 2022 is in the books! 📚 We had a wonderful time. Thank you to Mrs. Douglas for reading a story, our wonderful teachers and staff, and our families for coming out to enjoy a wonderful evening together.

Fact Sheet: Helping Families Find Formula During the Infant Formula Shortage

Please click below for more information on the infant formula shortage, including where to find formula.

Fact Sheet: Helping Families Find Formula During the Infant Formula Shortage Find resources to assist families during the infant formula shortage in the wake of Abbott Nutrition’s voluntary recall of certain powdered infant formulas.

Family Friendly Schools Program

Family Friendly School Award Voting Window Now Open!
The voting window to name Hall's Cross Roads the Family Friendly School Award winner for this month is NOW OPEN! This will be the LAST winning school for the 2021-22 school year. Make your vote count! Vote for Hall's!

Click here https://www.hcps.org/parents/parentacademy/familyfriendlyschools.aspx
to vote once before 11:59 p.m. on Wednesday, May 18, to let us know which nominated school should win the coveted title of “Family Friendly School” and a staff Chick-fil-A luncheon!

Family Friendly Schools Program The HCPS Parent Academy, in partnership with Chick-fil-A of Harford County, is excited to sponsor the HCPS Family Friendly School Award program. HCPS recognizes that building meaningful relationships between schools, families, and communities is imperative to student achievement. When families are i...

Baby vegetable plants being planted in the garden. 🌱

Thank you to Mountain Christian Church of Aberdeen for waking us up with coffee and donuts during Teacher Appreciation week! We appreciate the love. ♥️

Thank you to Ms. Kim Boyles of Mountain Christian Church of Aberdeen for delivering our Backpack Blessings every Thursday. We greatly appreciate all of your time and assistance. ♥️

Thank you to New Beginning Nutrition in Aberdeen for bringing teachers and staff a variety of delicious iced tea to start our Monday morning. The flavors were amazing! Thank you! 🍎

Thank you to Aberdeen First Baptist Church for decorating our staff lounge on Monday and bringing delicious DESSERTS on Friday to celebrate Teacher Appreciation Week. You outdid yourself this year. We are so appreciative of your time and baking talents! Thank you! ♥️ 🎂 🍰 🧁 🍪

A big shout out to all of our community partners for brightening the day of teachers and staff with gift cards to celebrate Teacher Appreciation Week. Here are some of the smiling faces!🍎Thank you!

🍎Thank a teacher! 🍎

Thank you to an amazing parent at Hall’s for providing a pizza lunch for the teachers today!!
You are so thoughtful and kind! 🍕

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PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO WEATHER, DATE IS CHANGED TO MAY 14TH.

Big thanks to the HDG Team for making our community a little greener :)

**You MUST RSVP to receive a dinner!!

Hall’s Cross Roads presents...
Story Night in the Garden
May 19, 2022
4:30-6:30

Enjoy a night of reading and fun in our vegetable and pollinator garden. Bring a blanket for a picnic-style dinner and story night.
*Gain ideas to support summer reading
*Listen to stories read by Hall’s teachers and staff
*Enjoy a light picnic dinner
*Enjoy the Hall’s garden
*Book giveaways

This flier will come home in the WEDNESDAY COMMUNICATION FOLDER this week. Please RSVP for Story Night by returning the bottom portion to one of your child's homeroom teachers or using the QR Code by May 13, 2021.

You can also click this https://forms.office.com/r/MCQyFaH54a

The RSVP allows us to plan accordingly for food and materials for this content event and is a requirement for Title I. We hope you can join us for our last large content event of the school year! :)

Family Friendly Schools Program

Happy May! 🌸🌼 This is the last month HCPS Parent Academy will name a Family Friendly School for the 2021-22 school year.

Nominate Hall’s before 11:59 p.m. on Monday, May 9, to put it in the running for the award this month. We look forward to celebrating BIG one last time before the close of this school year! 🎉

Nominate here: https://www.hcps.org/parents/parentacademy/familyfriendlyschools.aspx.

Family Friendly Schools Program The HCPS Parent Academy, in partnership with Chick-fil-A of Harford County, is excited to sponsor the HCPS Family Friendly School Award program. HCPS recognizes that building meaningful relationships between schools, families, and communities is imperative to student achievement. When families are i...

Thank you to Halls Cross Roads Elementary School PTA- HCRES PTA for stuffing out freezer with ice cream treats today! 🍨 🍦

Happy May! The HCRES PTA would like your help in celebrating Staff Appreciation week! These are some ideas for you and your students to do to show how much we appreciate the staff of HXES! You don't have to do them all but we really would love it if our students could draw a picture or write a letter to their teachers or anyone who works at the school how much they are thankful to have them!

See below for resources for children ages birth to 3!

Thank you to Aberdeen First Baptist Church for the “uplifting” decorations in our staff lounge today and to our admin for the snacks! 🎈 ⛅️ ☀️

This week is Teacher Appreciation Week. Let’s celebrate all of the amazing educators that teach and love our children!

Photos from Aberdeen Police Department's post

Mark your calendars for this free event because you won't want to miss it!

Mark your calendars for this event because you won't want to miss it! Project Connect 2022 connects you to health services, SNAP/DSS/CHIP/Child Support services, job resources, and more! Read below for more on this FREE event being held Thursday, 4/28 from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm at the EPICENTER in Edgewood.

Our 4th Bike Rodeo and 1st Spring Safety Extravaganza was a huge success! Thank you to our wonderful families, teachers, and community partners for coming out and spending some of your evening with us. Amazing things happen when we all come together. Just look at all the smiles on everyone’s face.
Aberdeen Fire Department, Inc.
Aberdeen Police Department
Healthy Harford
JAMSQUAD Cycling, Inc
Harford County Public Library
Empowering Minds RC
Harford County Health Department
Maryland Department of Transportation Motor Vehicle Administration
Maryland Physicians Care
UnitedHealthcare
UM Upper Chesapeake Health
Key Point Health Services

Our students celebrated Mr. Slattery with a Kindness Tree.

This week is National Assistant Principal’s week and we have the best one to celebrate! The Specialists surprised Mr. Slattery with a new Kindess Cart complete with side pockets and a kindness caddie to use as he moves around the building. Go to https://www.nassp.org/national-assistant-principals-week/ecards/ to send an e-card to celebrate Mr. Slattery! (Christian. [email protected])

Color wheels by fifth grade

Self portraits by PreK

Second grades’ warm and cold chameleons. 🦎

Attention parents of students age 8-11! Join us on April 15th for a special one day long PLEDGE Program.

The PLEDGE program is our popular program geared at educating that age group about the dangers of drugs and alcohol.

Registration is required and spots tend to fill up quickly! Contact Community Policing for information and to register!