Free community dinners!
Jason Morgan’s Intro to Art students are creating block prints. Each student is creating two blocks—one featuring a nature-based subject and the other a man-made subject—which they will later use to make prints. Stay tuned to see the final products on display in the art wing hallway!
As the quarter comes to a close, students in Laura Whitney’s Digital Music class are preparing for their final assessment. Each student must perform one piece from their songbook and another piece of their own choosing.
In order to provide food for any student who needs a little extra support this month, our Cony Teen Health Board is sponsoring a Competitive food drive for all grades 7-12! Donations can be brought in Monday 11/3-Friday 11/7.
We also have an Amazon wish list for community members to donate! Please consider supporting our students if you are able.
https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/2EFXS2LSNCUL6?ref=cm_sw_sm_r_un_un_saXqhBEXxR0Ih
If you are a family in need of some food assistance, we want to connect with you! Please email our guidance office at Kelly.sweeting@augustaschools.org and we will help support you.
Mrs. Oko and Parker Morin had a "bake off" to see who could make the best chocolate cake. This was to encourage attendance in RAM time for upper classes!
Our Augusta School Department's administrators and School Board chair at the United Way's Impact 2032 meeting
Superintendent Tracy met with High School students to teach about leadership and provide an opportunity to talk with students about their concerns!
AP Language teacher Brad Davis guides students in exploring how AP essays are scored. Students analyzed sample essays and applied the official AP grading rubric to evaluate them. This hands-on practice helps students clearly understand the exam’s expectations and prepares them to excel on the AP exam this spring.
Tonight is the MS Winter Sports night
Using simple materials and a lot of trail and error, students in Krystal Savadge’s STEM class are building balloon- powered vehicles. This is a true students-led class where ingenuity and hands-on experience guide student learning. Failing and re-trying are features here as students compete for bragging rights on Ms. Savadge’s board.
Multilingual teacher Ms. Moore invited our School Resource Officer Nick Sterling to her classroom. Officer Sterling challenged students in a "50 state blooket" competition. Officer Sterling did not win!
Students in Emily Pease's Honors Algebra 1 class are learning how to solve mathematical inequality word problems. A mathematical inequality shows that two amounts are not equal, and instead one is bigger or smaller than the other. For example: The time to take the test was between 6 and 7 minutes = 6
Gardiner vs Cony football game tonight. The football players give their favorite staff member their jersey to wear during the school day! Go Rams! Mr. Kenney sang the school song today!
Thank you so much to the Knights of Columbus for their donation to our Cony Cupboard run by our Cony Teen Board. The cupboard is typically stocked with food for our students who need it. We were running out of food! We truly appreciate their generosity.
PE2 teachers Alycia Nored and Don Plourde are helping their students build teamwork skills through competitive games like “cone flipping.” In this activity, the first team to flip all of their cones upright wins, which is much harder than it looks! These games encourage students to communicate and collaborate, building trust that carries over when they face challenges together on the ropes course.
Cony art created by our students!
Seniors!
Attention all Middle School Winter sports players and parents/guardians!
Students in Jeff DeJongh's Introduction to Robots class are learning how to program robots. This lesson's objective was to program the robot's distance sensor to find objects and the optical sensor in order to push objects off of the platform without the robot falling off the side.
Students in Darren Joyce's Issues of Modern Times class are learning not only about current events but also how to discuss them thoughtfully. They research topics, develop arguments for or against various issues, and debate in class using established norms. The class has become so popular that students are forming an interest club on Current Events & Debate Club at Cony.
