🎉 Another awesome Cougar Friday in the books! 🏀🏹 Our lower elementary kiddos had a blast with some fun STEM activities alongside the girls’ basketball team 🧪🔬, while our upper elementary students sharpened their archery skills like pros! 🎯🏹

Creativity was running wild with our bookmark competition. Who won???? You will have to wait until next week during Read Across America Week!!!

You are invited to our Burke Elementary Family Fun Night! Enjoy a fun filled night and then head over to our gym to help cheer our boy's basketball team on to a victory!

Dress Up Days for Read Across America Week!!! March 3-March 6

🌩️🌪️⚡️They are off to STATE! Good luck to Daytona and Jhett! Bring the STORM to STATE! 🌩️🌪️⚡️

🎉Congratulations to Eva Lindholm for placing 2nd in the 5th grade division and Carter Steffen for placing 1st in the 2nd grade division at the Missouri Valley Regional Spelling Bee today! 🏆 We are so proud of all our contestants for their hard work and dedication. Way to represent Burke! 💙

⚡️⚡️We are asking students and staff to wear BLACK on Wednesday, Feb 26th to support our BG Storm Wrestlers headed to state. Burke will have a pep rally/send off in the HS gym starting at 10:30 am on Wednesday. ⚡️⚡️

📚🏆 Burke Elementary Reader of the Week: Abe Mosterd! 🏆📚 Shoutout to Abe, who’s always up for a good book! 📖 Whether it's a graphic novel, historical fiction, or anything sports-related, Abe is all in! ⚽🏀📚 Mrs. Johnson can always count on him to nail every quiz question! 💡👏 He’s got a brain full of book knowledge and a love for reading that’s unmatched! 🙌 Let’s give it up for Abe — keep rocking those books, superstar! 🌟 ✨📚 Book Fairy Alert! 📚✨ Hey, Burke Elementary readers! Our library is about to get even better, and we want YOUR help! ✨ What book will YOU add to our collection? 🏫 https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/2TECS63QZD2PO/ref=nav_wishlist_lists_1 📖✨ Let the book fairy magic happen! ✨📖

🎉✨ Look Who’s 100 Days Smarter! ✨🎉 Check out the full story on our website: https://www.burke.k12.sd.us/article/2048425

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Mark Your Calendar!!!! Kick Off To Read Across America Night is coming soon. Monday, March 3 from 5 pm-7pm in the Burke Elementary School Lunchroom! Join us for food, crafts, games and maybe a little reading too. See you next Monday!

🏆🎉 7th/8th Grade Stuart Champions! 🎉🏆Way to go, champs! 🥇

🐾💙🏀 Congrats to our Cougar of the Week, Hudson Fuhrerl! 🐾💙🏀

🏀🔥 GAME DAY ALERT! 🔥🏀 Our Lady Cougars are hosting the 2nd round of the playoffs against Marty and we need YOU there! 🙌🐾 📅 Tuesday Night 📍 Burke ⏰ 7:00 PM Let’s pack the stands and cheer them on to victory! 💙

⚡️🏅Congrats to BG Storm wrestler Jhett for punching his ticket to state wrestling! Go Jhett, bring home some hardware🏅⚡️

🎉💪Congrats to BG Storm wrestler Daytona for qualifying for the state wrestling tournament! She is a Back 2 Back state qualifier! Way to go Daytona! ⚡️🎉

Join us for a family fun night to kick off Reading Across America week! 📖

Educators from Burke, Colome, and CORE traveled to Kansas City for an Education Conference. Learning lots during the day and crushing escape rooms at night!

🌟🎉 Big news! Congratulations to Avery Zeisler for winning the Rosebud Electric Scholarship! 🎓⚡ Your hard work and dedication have paid off, and we couldn’t be more proud! 👏

Good afternoon, families! With the cold temperatures forecasted in the morning, the Burke School District will have a 2 hour late start on Thursday, February 20th. Buses will run accordingly and no breakfast will be served. Stay safe and warm!