LEWISTON — When Longley school teacher Alicia Clifford recently showed her first-grade students an Angry Birds video game, explaining to them the challenge was to figure out a puzzle, students were excited, she said. The goal is to figure out how to get the Angry Bird to the pig. “How do we do that?” Clifford […]
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21st Century afterschool programs
Elohim Nsumbu, a sixth-grader at Longley Elementary School, demonstrates a canopy test he created as part of the 21st Century after-school program during a community night in the school gymnasium Tuesday. His group is working through a Boston Museum of Science Curriculum, which requires students to write, talk and think like engineers. They are testing […]
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Filling backpacks with food
Community Credit Union presented Good Shepherd Food Bank with a check for $1,500 for three schools. Longley Elementary in Lewiston, Washburn Elementary in Auburn and Carrie Ricker Middle School in Litchfield will each receive $500 toward their backpack program/food pantry. From left are Christina Carter, executive vice president of Community Credit Union; Jennifer Hogan, president/CEO of Community Credit Union; Michelle Gagne, […]
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Longley and Tree Street: Learning, doing the funky chicken in joint summer program
LEWISTON — Summer school counselor Isaiah Teague, 14, got the crowd of students pumped with his performance in the Longley Elementary School gym Wednesday morning. “Left, left, left, right, left,” he chanted as 290 elementary students marched and chanted along. “Are you ready?” he called. “Let me see your funky chicken!” His audience clucked like chickens […]