Check out Mrs. Armstrong’s first grade cougars who made leprechaun traps! Students designed their own traps and then built them using a variety of materials. Other Congin classrooms got to visit today as students explained their design and how they planned on catching leprechauns!
Check out Mrs. Townsend’s 2nd grade class who are hatching chicken eggs! Students are learning about the process of hatching eggs and will wait 21 days for the hatchlings to arrive! Until then, they will be making observations and writing what they see.
Our Den Ambassadors got to meet with Representative Suzanne Salisbury today after their presentation at the school committee meeting last month. Students got to ask questions about the Westbrook School Committee and they got to share some of the projects that they have been working on. Suzanne Salisbury also gave the Den Ambassadors a certificate for all of the work that they have accomplished!
Our 4th grade Den Ambassadors helped Mr. Bisson build our new GaGa Ball Pit on our playground this morning! Thank you to our Congin School PTO for fundraising for this great addition to our playground!
Happy Read Across America week! Our cougars have been participating in a variety of literacy activities to celebrate, including a surprise guest reading from Jeff Peterson of WGME News 13 in Mrs. Rounds’s third grade class!
Last night our Den Ambassadors presented at the school committee. Students shared that they learned that January was School Committee Appreciation Month, and Mr. Bisson taught them what the school committee does for the schools in our district. Students then completed a project to show their appreciation to the school committee members by creating a word cloud that they framed for each member of the committee. The students did a fantastic job!
Congin Cougars are celebrating Valentine’s Day and the 100th Day of School! Students participated in minute-to-win-it games, painting, kindness activities, and celebrated with parties.
We hope everyone has a terrific Valentine’s Day with your loved ones!
Happy National World Read Aloud Day! Today a bunch of cougars celebrated with guest readers and students sharing their favorite books!
Friday was Groundhog's day, and our Congin Cougars celebrated in a variety of ways. Check out these kindergarteners from Mrs. Morowski's class who made predictions and read a variety of books to learn more about Groundhog's day! Mrs. Dudley's second grade class celebrated with a craft activity where they used potato stamps to make their own groundhogs! Take a look at these creative pieces!
For the month of February, Congin is benefitting from Hannaford's Blooming for Good Program! When you go to the Westbrook Hannaford and purchase a Blooming for Good bouquet, Congin will receive $1 for each bouquet purchased! Help spread the word.
Congin Cougars love Reader’s Theater! Check out these 2nd and 3rd graders who participated in a Reader’s Theater after school club and performed for families “The Day the Crayons Quit.” The students did a great job!
We will have another two hour delayed start of school in Westbrook today. This will give crews time to plow and treat streets, sidewalks, and school lots. As you know, a two hour delay means that schools will open two hours after the regular time and buses will pick up students about two hours after their usual time. There are no before school activities and there will be no PreK classes. Be safe today!
Roads are very icy this morning but they are being treated and expected to improve. Because of this, we will have a two hour delayed start of school in Westbrook today, January 25. That means that schools will open two hours after their scheduled times and buses will pick up students about two hours after their usual time. There are no before school activities and PreK classes are canceled. Please be careful walking and driving this morning!
Check out these cougars in action! In PE, Ms. Murphy and Ms. Fulton have been teaching students about bowling. To celebrate and apply the skills that they learned, cougars are participating in Galactic Bowling and are competing against other classrooms for the amount of strikes and spares that they get!
We will be having an early release today. Students will be dismissed starting at 12:20!
I’d like to get everyone home before the height of the storm today, so we will be closing early. Dismissal at WHS and WMS will be at 11:30am. Dismissal at Canal, Congin, and Saccarappa will be at 12:20pm. There will be no PreK classes today and there will be no after school activities or practices. Be safe in the storm!
Congin Cougars are artists! 16 cougars submitted an art piece for our yearbook cover contest and the whole school voted on their favorite. Congratulations to Aubrey Patterson who submitted this cover and won our contest! This artwork will be the cover for this year’s yearbook.
4th grade cougars are doing a project through Sole Hope to benefit the children of Uganda who are in need of shoes to prevent infection and pain caused by jiggers.
In order to complete this project, they need your help! Students are in need of non-skinny, non-stretch, adult sized jeans. Your jeans will end up becoming shoes! If you have any jeans that you would be willing to donate, please send them to school with your child! They can deliver them to the office.
Thank you for your support in this project. The students are very excited.
We are excited to announce Bikes for Books, thanks to the Saccarappa Mason's Lodge! Students are encouraged to read 100 pages or 10 books. Once they do so, they can fill out a form and turn into the office by April 22nd to be entered to win a bike! We are excited to see all of our Cougars reading for this awesome opportunity.
Congin Cougars are brave! Check out these fourth grade students from Mrs. Pecoraro’s class who have been learning with Mrs. Powers about Sole Hope, an organization committed to fighting foot diseases in East Africa.
These students presented to the Congin PTO in hopes to fund a shoe making project to then donate to Sole Hope. Nice work, fourth graders!
