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Congratulations to all of the students that participated in the 2012-2013 Cardinal Local School District Spelling Bee. Eighth-grader Alex Michener won the spelling bee…
District Spelling Bee
Congratulations to all of the students that participated in the 2012-2013 Cardinal Local School District Spelling Bee.
Eighth-grader Alex Michener won the spelling bee after spelling the championship word “vaporize.”
The participants included: John Avalon, Amanda Byler, Conner Callison, Trystin Cumblidge, Micah Gyorki, Isaiah Cook, Ashley Marcum, Anna Blubaugh, Rachael LeQuyea, Cooper Boggs, Jonathan Holt, Mikayla Vlach, Kailyn Foutty, Jordan Weaver, Dylan Carroll, Tom Crawford, Ella Rhodes, Jared Roskelly, Trisha Cesar, Alex Michener, Anthony Granny and Kasey Linberg.
The staff and students are very proud of everyone’s hard work and dedication. Thanks go to the judges: Mrs. Bock, Mr. Sadler and Mrs. Smolen and to the bee coordinator: Mrs. Hruska.
CIS Happenings
Students in Mrs. Libby’s class worked on paragraph writing about China. They created dragons with their paragraphs to celebrate the Chinese New Year on Feb. 10.
Ms. Havice’s class discusses how each class member is an important piece of this great puzzle at Cardinal Intermediate School. It’s all about teamwork.
Students in the fourth-grade hallway are caught up in a “Blizzard of Books” because they love to read. They also decorated their lockers in the hallway with research reports about famous scientists.
Fifth-graders in Ms Duchscherer’s class learned about series and parallel circuits with Mr. Zurbach.
Student leaders at CIS take on an entrepreneur role three days a week as they operate the Huskie School store.
Cardinal Middle School News
The 21st century education classes did an assignment where they were “party planners.” Partners or individuals were given a certain budget to create a birthday party of some kind. They researched prices for all of the fixings of a party, including food, entertainment, location and decorations, and put it together in a presentation format to share with others.
Those students who wished to be eligible for the grand prize voluntarily came in during their lunch to present their party proposals to different classes in different grades. The students observing ranked the proposals and presenters on a scale of 1 to 10 based on a couple of factors. The winners were selected based on these votes. The winning group received a variety of rewards.
Students in seventh-grade world history just finished creating their own African books in culmination of the Africa units. Included in the booklets were African Kingdoms and Empires, African animals, African physical characteristics and landforms, migrations of the Bantu people, skills and crops of the Bantu, maps and a variety of other information. The teachers are proud of the creative effort and hard work displayed by the students. Students also learned and created their own African masks after studying the various reasons in Africa that masks were made as an art form as well as being an integral part of African culture.
In seventh-grade language arts, students are creating “artful trading cards” as part of a collage. Mrs. Santos-Smith, a student teacher, has the students make a trading card for each chapter they read in “The Giver.” Mrs. Santos-Smith displays one or two cards based on artwork and the connection to the text. Students can earn extra points, a prize or praise for outstanding work.
Eighth-grade social studies had a project-based assessment on Indian Removal and the Trail of Tears. They created first-person journals and for extra credit could make them look like historical artifacts.
Seventh-grade science students are building musical instruments and making music videos this month.
Boosters Reverse Raffle
Cardinal Athletic Boosters will be hosting their 10th annual Reverse Raffle on April 6 at the Parkman Community House on Route 422, just east of Route 528. Doors open at 5:30 p.m., with dinner being served at 7 p.m.
Cost is $50 a couple, which includes one main board ticket and two dinners. The dinner features pulled pork, macaroni and cheese, potatoes, beans, coleslaw, desserts, pop, water, coffee and beer.
Grand prize is $1,500. Other fun activities and prizes include sideboards, 50/50, lottery board, door prizes, Chinese auction, silent auction, beer pyramid giveaway, booze basket giveaway, flat screen TV drawing and much more.
All proceeds go to the Cardinal Athletic Booster Scholarship Fund. This year, the Boosters will present seven $1,000 scholarships at the Spring Athletic Awards Ceremony in May.
For tickets or for more information, contact Tally, 440-632-5478; Diane, 440-632-5913 or Karen, 440-537-0811.
Donations gladly accepted. It is a great night of fun for a great cause.
Important Dates
March 21: End of Grading Period Early Dismissal (CHS, 12:30 p.m.; CMS, 12:45 p.m.; Jordak/CIS, 1 p.m.)
March 22: No School Spring break begins
April 1: Classes resume
April 6: Cardinal Athletic Boosters Reverse Raffle
