Good Morning Congin Cougar Families,
Happy Wednesday! I hope everyone had a wonderful break/Thanksgiving last week. It's crazy to think that we have less than 3 weeks left until winter break, but we have a lot of things going on before then! Here are some updates for this week:
Today is an early release day, so students will be dismissed at 2:30!
For the month of November, we focused on the theme of gratitude! Students were earning and giving out gratitude feathers and we had a goal of 300. On Monday, we celebrated our work with gratitude by having an assembly where we found out that we received 547 gratitude feathers! To celebrate, we will be having a sports day this Friday, December 6th! Students can wear any sports hat, jersey, shirt, etc.
At our assembly, we also rolled out our new theme of Kindness for the month of December. Instead of giving items out, we are challenging students to participate in our 12 Days of Kindness! Each day, we are going to be revealing an act of kindness, and we are challenging students to complete that act of kindness. Students who show these acts during the day might even get a shout out on morning announcements! On our first day, we challenged students to give someone a compliment, and on our second day we challenged students to help clean up the lunch room without being asked. Ask your child what the day's challenges are when they get home and see if they were able to complete it!
As I mentioned previously, we are having a sports day on Friday, however, it is also picture retake day! If your child is participating in picture retakes, please make sure to tell their teacher. If your child is doing picture retakes and they want to participate in our spirit day, they can also bring a change of clothes! Remember that if you would like to order online, here is the link and the code is FM453637.
Our annual PTO Silent Auction is up and running! Here is the link to our auction if you would like to bid on any of the amazing items available. All of the proceeds go to our PTO to help support our school and teachers! Additionally, our PTO will be holding an event at Westbrook Candlepin Bowling on Sunday, December 8th from 1:00-4:00pm. There will be extra items for people to bid on, and there will be an opportunity to bowl and enjoy each other's company! Attendees will be responsible for their own lane rentals.
Game Club is coming for 1st and 2nd grade students. A flyer went home for parents to fill out if your child is interested in participating. Please note that we are only able to accept 20 students. If we get an interest that is higher than 20 students, we will be choosing students via a random draw. We will notify families whether or not a child got into game club or not the week of December 16th. Game Club will be taking place on January 9th, 16th, and 23rd at Congin School. All parents are responsible to pick up their child by 5pm on these days if your child is participating.
We will be having our monthly PTO meeting on Monday, December 9th at 5:30 for anyone that would like to attend! Here is a link for anyone that would like to attend virtually!
We have some upcoming field trips happening! On Monday, December 9th, Kindergarten will be going to the Festival of Trees in Westbrook! On Tuesday, December 10th, our GT Art students will be going to the Portland Museum of Art! Please reach out to your child's teacher if you have any questions!
Don't forget that we will be on winter break from 12/23/24-1/1/25. We will be back to school on January 2nd!
It's a great day to be a cougar!
Sincerely,
Marc Bisson
Principal
Congin School