Cardinal High School will honor veterans this Veterans Day with a special breakfast and assembly the morning of Nov. 11.Veterans and all community members…
Community Breakfast/Assembly
Cardinal High School will honor veterans this Veterans Day with a special breakfast and assembly the morning of Nov. 11.
Veterans and all community members are invited to join students and staff for breakfast in the high school cafeteria starting at 7:30 a.m. Immediately following the breakfast, there will be an assembly honoring our veterans at 8:15 a.m.
Positive Behavior Skits
Practicing positive behaviors is front and center in Cardinal schools again this year. The district continues to use the Positive Behaviors Interventions Support (PBIS) model to provide a universal set of behaviors for students in all settings to practice.
Recently, teachers and students in grades K-4 performed skits in front of their peers highlighting each behavior expectation named out in the word PRIDE (productive, respectful, involved, determined, and empathetic). Special guest Margo the Husky Pup watched each skit and then whispered which grade she thought had the best one to Brian Kelly, handler and school maintenance director. Margo thought every skit was full of Huskie Pride, so every class won extra recess.
“These skits were a great way to show students how we expect them to behave in positive ways according to the PBIS model,” says Principal Kelly Bearer. “As we see students practicing positive behaviors in the PRIDE areas, they’ll be rewarded with Huskie Bucks, which they can turn in weekly for prizes and activities it’s a reward for good behavior, which will hopefully prompt them to keep it up.”
Business Donates TVs
Keeping students and school visitors informed about activities and events happening in each building just got a little easier thanks to a generous donation from Matt Smith of RadioActive Electronics in Middlefield. After Smith provided a large TV monitor to the high school to use for displaying announcements and events, he decided to donate two additional monitors to the elementary and middle schools to use for announcements as well.
“We wanted to do something to help the school district out,” says Smith of the donation. “We understand that funds can be tight and the need for displays and message boards can help parents, students and staff. I have a son at the high school and am grateful for the education that is provided to him. We all live in and try to support this community. This is just RadioActive’s way to give back.”
Smith is also hoping to donate a TV to the intermediate school later this school year.
Holden Arboretum Field Trips
Many Cardinal students are exploring nature this fall with field trips to Holden Arboretum. In fifth grade, students are participating in the Growing Students in Science program offered by the Arboretum. Prior to their visit to the arboretum, students participated in hands-on projects, created a terrarium, read a science fiction novel and studied ecosystems. While at Holden, students worked with decomposers, discovered the basics of growing plants, saw how photosynthesis affects plants and learned which ecosystems are right for plants.
“Our trip to Holden will prepare students for the next lessons in class,” says teacher Greg Cicero. “Students will take the information they learned here and in class and will now work to build Controlled Ecological Life Support Systems (CELSS) that will support six people and provide the basics for people to live on either Mars, the moon or a space station.”
Learnathon Awards
Congratulations to the K-4 Elementary Campus (JES and CIS) for receiving several Learnathon AWARDS through the web-based educational tool, ScootPad. Every week, use of the language and math programs is monitored by ScootPad for all schools and districts that use ScootPad in the United States. ScootPad then gives awards to schools, districts and individual classrooms for their work/participation.
The following awards were given to JES/CIS and the individual teachers listed for the week of Oct. 5-11:
Math: No. 97 out of all schools in the United States; 87 out of all districts in the United States; Mrs. Murphy’s second-grade classroom, first place; Mrs. Gatrell, second place; and Mrs. Gatrell, third place.
English/Language Arts: Mrs. Simm’s second-grade classroom, first place; Mrs. Murphy’s second-grade classroom, second place; and Mrs. Callahan’s second-grade classroom, third place.
