Students in Ms. Liz's class are enjoying the new giant Lego-style building blocks. Thank you to the Maquoketa Education Fund Grant program for these awesome new items!!! 🤩
It's a great day to BE KIND! 😁
Chip-Chip Hooray it was a COLORFUL Day as we continue to celebrate our Staff! Mrs. Liz was the winner of a chocolate chip brownie cookie from the Humming Arrow. Thank you, Sadie Gerlach for the donation and supporting our staff!
Please help us bring awareness to Mental Health Awareness Month by participating in these fun dress-up days May 13th - May 17th!
ORANGE You Glad It's Friday! Another day to thank the Parent Lighthouse Team for supplying the our Cardinal staff with some energy throughout the day! We also got to see some team pride as students and staff showed of their favorite teams!
Today we celebrated like ROCKSTARS how amazing our Cardinal Staff is! We also enjoyed some yummy desserts in the lounge thanks to our Parent Lighthouse Team! Teacher Barbie (a.k.a Mrs. Liz) even made an appearance.
Congratulations to Miss Amanda, one of our PK-2 paraprofessionals at Cardinal Elementary. Today she won a pair of tickets to the VOY theater. Thank you to the VOY for always supporting the work of our staff at Maquoketa!
Congratulations to Ms. Emily Dontje who was the recipient of a gift card to Tada Meats during the Cardinal raffle today! Stay tuned for more winners this week as we raffle out more fun prizes gathered by the Parent Lighthouse Team to support our staff. Thank you Tada Meats for your support and recognition of educators in Maquoketa!
Today we celebrated how much we "POSITIVELY" love our Cardial staff! Thank you to the Parent Lighthouse Team for providing some energy this morning! Another thank-you to school board member Kacee Nohr for providing the yummy brownies! We are so grateful!
Two more first grade students met the reading goal of reading 5 days a week since October! Way to go Shane and Cameron!
Hello Cardinal Elementary Families,
I hope that you have enjoyed the weekend and are looking forward to the week ahead. We are getting ready to celebrate teachers and all staff at Cardinal Elementary. Please join us for some fun dress-up days to help us celebrate. Here is another episode of CWNK (https://youtu.be/FK5EuAFRcoQ) news report to tell you more! Izzy Watson and Brody Flagel have more to tell you about some exciting events in May!
Highlights Include:
-Celebration of Mental Health Awareness (May 13th-17th) Dress Up Days to come.
-Move Up Day (May 15th)
-Cardinal Track and Field Day (May 23rd)
-Cardinal Carnival (May 29th)
Check out these Cardinal first grade readers who met a reading goal by reading 5 days a week since October! Way to go!
Student Kiwanis Readers from the Cardinal Lighthouse team read to our preschool friends today! They love sharing their talents with others!
Cardinal students enjoyed some outside time today to work on Habit #7: Sharpen the Saw. Being outside on a beautiful spring day is a great way to nourish your spirit! 🌸
Cardinal awarded the Count on Me award for Habit #7: Sharpen the Saw, to Miss Taylor Back! Taylor is a special education teacher at Cardinal Elementary. She has been a great addition to our Cardial staff this year and is always modeling and encouraging the use of good habits with students and staff. Thank you for being a rock star leader, Miss Back!
Staff Shout Out to Ms. Pam Bowman who was awarded our High Hopes award for Habit #7: Sharpen the Saw. Pam does an amazing job as a paraprofessional at Cardinal Elementary. Her support and encouragement for the academic and behavior success of our Cardinal students does not go unnoticed! Thank you Ms. Pam!
2nd graders participated in the 2024 Jackson County Soil and Water Conservation District poster contest. Kinley D. had an outstanding entry and has won the 🥇1st place local award. Her poster will advance to the Regional Conservation judging.
It was a great morning for a bus evacuation drill!
Cardinal Elementary awards today include some special poetry awards for second grade students. Please see the video (https://youtu.be/AiMueW_qiQ4) for more details about our High Hopes and Count on Me award winners for Habit #7: Sharpen the Saw. Congratulations to all these outstanding award winners!
Maquoketa Track and Band Families,
The Conference Track meet has been moved to Friday, May 3rd starting at 11:00 am at Monticello. This is due to the anticipated weather for Thursday evening. This has been schedule during the day to allow all band students to attend Conference Track and any students who are participating in Large Group Band and Vocal Contests in the evening.