Burke School District 26-2

So many good things happening at the Burke Schools! We wore our most comfortable clothes and enjoyed more big kids reading to our little kids. AND...our little kids read to our big kids!!! Cougars make the best readers!!!

🎶 Attention High School Music Parents – Chicago Trip 🎶 If you have a student attending the Chicago trip, please plan to attend a meeting on Wednesday, March 11th at 5:30 PM in the Commons. We will: • Hand out the itinerary • Collect/share phone numbers for the group messaging app • Answer any questions Your attendance is important as we finalize details. Thank you, and we’re looking forward to a great trip!

COUGARS ARE READERS!!!! Another great day of reading and having our littles spending time reading with our bigs!!! Tomorrow's dress up day is Comfy Clothes! Wear your comfiest clothes, bring your favorite blanket or stuffed animal to spend sometime reading tomorrow.

Our 1st day of Read Across America was a success. Mrs. Frank's freshman and junior classes came over to the elementary school and read to our 1st graders and 3rd graders. Lots of smiles were seen while big kids and little kids spent time together. We have a mystery reader this week, ask your elementary student who they think it is?!?! Tomorrow's dress up day is Cougar gear! Cougars are READERS!!!

CONGRATULATIONS ABIGAIL AND PAIGE!!! 🎉🎉 We are SO proud to announce that they are **Family, Career and Community Leaders of America National Qualifiers for the 2nd year in a row!!! 🇺🇸🏆👏 This year, their instructional video focuses on Safe Sleeping for Infants 🍼💤 — such an important and meaningful topic that helps keep our little ones safe! ❤️

It's Read Across America Week!!
We have lots of fun reading planned including a week full of fun and easy dress up days!
Encourage your student to join in!

🐾💙 Cougar Friday Fun! 💙🐾 A huge THANK YOU to Burke Community Memorial Hospital 🏥 for hosting our Cougar Friday activity and giving our students the opportunity to meet some amazing healthcare heroes! 👩‍⚕️👨‍⚕️

Huge shoutout to our amazing Cougar Athletic Club for the awesome new backdrop and tablecloth! 🙌💙 They look fantastic and truly show off our Cougar Pride! Thank you for always supporting our students, athletes, and school community. We appreciate you! 🐾💪

⚡️🤼 Wishing all BG wrestlers and coaches the best of luck this weekend at State! Your hardwork and dedication have led you here, it's time to compete and bring home some hardware! We are proud of you! 👏 ⚡️

🍀🐟 Join Us for 4-H Fun! 🐟🍀

Mark your calendars for March 14th 📅 and come join 4-H as we dive into the amazing world of the school of fish! 🌊🐠

Check out this week's Cougar Friday activity hosted by the Burke Community Memorial Hospital

🎉 Cougars Celebrate 100 Days Smarter! 🎉

Today our MS and HS students teamed up with the elementary kids for a day full of 100-themed fun! From 100-piece puzzles, domino runs, and cup towers, to bowling 100 pins, cone flipping, and relay shuffleboard, every grade got creative and competitive.

Here’s to 100 days smarter and counting! 💙

Special shout out to Cheryl Baxa, Lisa Green, Rachel Sanderson, Laurie Beauchamp, Carol Johnson, Ashley Kass, Erin Schulte, and Connor Hosford for donating the delicious cookies!!!

It’s 🎉💙 FFA WEEK 💙🎉Wear Blue Wednesday to show your support for our amazing FFA chapter!

⚡️Good luck to all BG Storm state qualifiers this weekend in Sioux Falls! Finish strong 🏅 State Qualifiers: Dane Johnson Reed Sedlacek Eli Ekroth Mason Janak Dale Smikle

⚡️BG Girls brought the Storm to Region Wrestling in Mitchell today. So proud of how our girls wrestled! Congrats to the following region placers: Miley Janak 6th Harper Wenger 6th Sarah Spann 6th Daytona Paris 🥉 Also, Congrats to 3x state qualifier Daytona Paris! 👏 Finish what you started at State!🏅

The 2026 Missouri Valley Spelling Bee was a HUGE success today!! 🐝✨ We are so proud of our incredible spellers and the way they represented Burke! 🏆 First Grade Division 🥇 Lincoln Hitchcock – 1st Place 🥈 Aaliyah Miller – 2nd Place 🏆 Second Grade Division 🥈 Briggs Van Hill – 2nd Place 🏆 Fifth Grade Division 🥉 Kayden Ulrich – 3rd Place 🏆 Sixth Grade Division 🥇 Eva Lindholm – 1st Place 🥈 Beckem Bauld – 2nd Place All of these outstanding performances earned Burke a whopping 13 points, placing us 1st overall at the Missouri Valley Spelling Bee AND making us the proud winners of the Traveling Trophy!! 🏆🎉 We are also incredibly proud of ALL of this year’s participants: Eva Lindholm, Beckem Bauld, Kayden Ulrich, Brooks Herman, Liam Sutton, Beck Andrews, Jeven Schonebaum, Carter Steffen, Toni Horn, Briggs Van Hill, Aaliyah Miller, and Lincoln Hitchcock. And a HUGE shout out to our amazing bus driver for getting us there and back safely — we appreciate you more than you know!! 🚌👏 Way to go, students! Your hard work, courage, and brainpower paid off in a big way. We are so proud of you! 💙💛

Happy Women in Sports Day to these two amazing girls! 🏀💪 So proud of Brylie and Emmie for showing what hard work, teamwork, and heart look like every single day. ❤️ They continue to prove that girls can do anything they set their minds to — on and off the court/field! 🙌✨

Happy School Board Appreciation Week!
If you see our school board members around town, in your business, or in your classroom, please take a moment to thank them for their dedicated service and commitment to our students, staff, and community. We are grateful for the time, leadership, and care they provide to our school every day.

🎉✨ We’re 100 Days Smarter! ✨🎉

Can you believe it?! Monday, February 23rd is our 100th Day of School! 🏫📚

To celebrate all the learning, growing, and hard work, we’re inviting students to dress like they’re 100 years smarter! 👵👴💡

Break out the suspenders, pearls, bow ties, cardigans, gray hair spray, or any fun “100-year-old genius” look! We can’t wait to see the creativity and celebrate how much our students have learned in 100 days.

It’s going to be a SMART and stylish day! 🧠✨

The Tater-Olympics have started with Curling!