🏀🔥 Champions Alert! 🔥🏀
Our Middle School Boys Basketball Team just took home the Great Plains Conference Tournament Championship! 🏆💪
⚡️⚡️BG Girls brought the BOOM to Yankton! Kennely 4th and Daytona 4th! Way to go girls! 💪💪🏅🏅
🌪️⚡️B/G Storm Wreslters getting ready to rumble in Yankton! Wrestling starts at 4pm. Go Storm, bring home some hardware!!🥇🥇
📚✨ Meet Maya – Our Reader of the Week! ✨📚
Maya is a 5th grader at Burke Elementary, and she has made a display of some of her favorite books in our library.
Maya enjoys diving into the past, exploring fascinating history, and discovering hidden gems in graphic novels. Her love for interesting facts is contagious, and she’s always ready to share something new with us!
Here’s to the readers who turn every page into an adventure. 🏺📖
Drop a 👏 below to celebrate Maya’s reading journey! What’s your favorite genre or fun fact you’ve learned recently?
Check back next week to see who the reader of the week will be.
📢 Schedule Update 📢
🏀 Today's boy's basketball game vs Marty is postponed to Monday, February 24.🏀
Shoutout to the amazing Mrs. B for National School Counselor Week! 🎉💙 Your kindness, support, and guidance make such a difference in the lives of students every day. Thank you for all that you do! 🙌🍎
Congrats to these 8th grade art students. Their art is entered into the VFW Auxiliary National Illustrating America Art Contest.
🎉🏅 Congratulations to Olivia Bull, Paige Bull, and Kailee Frank! 🏅🎉
We are proud to recognize these outstanding student-athletes for their dedication and commitment to participating in three sports all four years of high school! Your hard work, perseverance, and passion for athletics inspire us all. 💪👏
On National Girls & Women in Sports Day (NGWSD), we celebrate the achievements of girls and women in sports and continue to Lead Her Forward by acknowledging the power of sports to unlock limitless potential. 🚀🏆
Way to go, ladies! 💙
Congratulation to our January student of the month winners!
Here are the areas they have to demonstrate and/or show improvement in!
Positive Attitude- towards their peers, teachers, subs, and within the classroom
Respect- Do they have good manners; show respect to everyone they are around? Do they follow classroom expectations?
Responsible- Are they accountable for their actions? Do they complete assignments? Do they communicate with the teacher? Can their peers? Can staff count on them to follow through?
Participation- Do they want to learn? Do they join in on classroom discussions, classroom project and/or mini groups?
Leadership- Do they demonstrate qualities of a good leader - helpful towards peers, takes first step, communicates well with those around them, builds up those around them.
Improvement- This is the student that has struggled- has worked hard to improve in their personal growth, has improved their academic growth.
Integrity- HONESTY- do the right thing when you are by yourself or with a group!
Check out the FFA fundraiser!
🐾💙🏀 Congrats to our Cougar of the Week Senior, Kailee Frank! 🐾💙🏀
Nothing beats packed stands and a loud, energetic student section cheering on our team! So proud of our athletes and coaches tonight, but absolutely thrilled by our amazing student section for bringing the energy and positivity to tonight’s game! Your enthusiasm, sportsmanship, and school spirit make all the difference—keep bringing that Cougar pride!💙🐾
🏀 Attention Cougar Fans! 🏀
There has been a change to tonight’s basketball game schedule!
📢 Updated Schedule - 4:00 start time
✅ JV Girls – 4 quarters
✅ JV Boys – 4 quarters
✅ Varsity Game to follow
🏀🐾 This morning our HS basketball teams hosted a skills camp for all elementary students. Nearly 60 kids showed up to work on their skills. Go Cougars! 🐾🏀
📣 A Big Thank You to Mike Marshall & P.E.O. Chapter! 🎉
We are so grateful to Mike Marshall for visiting our 4th, 5th, and SD History students to share traditional Lakota games! 🏹🎯 It was an engaging and enriching experience for our students as they learned about Lakota culture through hands-on activities.
A special thank you to the P.E.O. Chapter for generously providing the funds to bring this wonderful experience to our students. Your support helps make learning come alive!
🐾💙🏀 Congrats to Cougar of the Week Senior, Gentry Bartling! 🐾💙🏀
🎉🏀 CHAMPIONS ALERT! 🏆💪
Huge congratulations to our 8th grade boys basketball team for bringing home the CHAMPIONSHIP at Wagner today! 🙌🔥
Thank you Jim, Steph, Ben, and Chelsa for spending the morning with our Little Cougars. Go Cougars! 🐾🏀
Building Skills, Sportsmanship, and a Stronger Future!
🏀 Join Us for an Exciting Cougar Day Basketball Camp! 🏀
On January 31st, our Girls and Boys Basketball Teams are coming together to host a skills camp for our Elementary Students from 9:30-10:30 AM.
Sign up at: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeYgQM7BPIBWHCvcG1VSLxv2ifqTHKRY9E_B6WQGu2QZuRPlQ/viewform
🍔🐮 Intro to Ag students had burgers for breakfast as they compared hamburgers from two different breeds of cattle! 🎉
