For our 2nd quarter lesson Mrs. Rhodes read the book "The Gratitude Tree" by Stacey Peters. The story tells how an ordinary tree discovers the meaning of gratitude and learns to appreciate everything he has. Each student and staff member had the opportunity to make a leaf to add to our own gratitude tree. Inside each leaf the students wrote what they are grateful for. Our tree is beautiful and reminds each of us to be thankful for all that we do have!
For Little Hawks playgroup this week, we read the book Thanksgiving Is For Giving Thanks by Margaret Sutherland. Each child got to pick out an item for our “turkey stew” pot, they used pumpkin pie spice in their paint to create a pumpkin pie craft, ran in the gym to the Turkey Hop song, and played a Harvest game!! Our next playgroup will be on December 1st at the Blue Mound Community Center at 9:30am.
Meridian Elementary School November Students of the Month
Kindergarten - Annabeth McCurry, Carter Perry, Sophia Seitz, Adelyn Perrey
First - Brooklyn Keller, Harrison Noland, Piper McVey,Hakeem Jones
Second -Paisley Hamiton, Dixie Major, Avery Colbrook, Madison Fisher
Third - Zane Warnsley, Teegan Waldrop, Molly Kraft, Caleb Smithers
Fourth- Macie Rowcliff, Charlotte Patient, Brayden Moretti
Fifth - Matthew Nernberger, Myla O’Laughlin, Matthew Pritts
Congratulations!! These students were selected by their classroom teacher for being kind, being safe, being respectful, and being responsible.
Our Little Hawks and their families enjoyed a fun evening learning about the importance of fine motor skills with a guest speaker from Bright Start, painting with the Next of Kiln, and eating dinner together!
This event was for our 0-3 age group and those students not in our PreK program. If you would like more information on future events, please join the Little Hawks facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/littlehawks15/
Reminder - tomorrow 11/11 is an 11:30 dismissal.
Little Hawks read the story The Very Busy Spider, did fingerplay with The Itsy Bity Spider song, dug for spiders at our sensory table, and painted beautiful watercolor spider webs.
Our Little Hawks playgroup enjoyed raking leaves at the Blue Mound Community Center today! We read the book Leaf Jumpers, did leaf rubbings as part of our craft, sang and danced to the song Leaves are Falling!! They worked hard and played hard today!!
5th Grade students learned about how the water cycle works by “making rain” with our Mystery Science experiment.
Mrs. Rambo class learning about force and motion. The students were given 10 craft sticks, 6 rubber bands, and a spoon to build a catapult.
Meridian Elementary is once again entered into the Red Ribbon Week photo contest to win $1000 and an Ipad for our school! Voting starts Wednesday November 2nd and runs through Wednesday Nov 16th. You may vote once each day per device. Our unique ID is below (once on the site scroll down to find our picture). Happy Voting!
https://redribbon.wishpond.com/school-category-photo-submission-2022/entries/200828870/reference
MES will be joining the Middle School in collecting food for the Blue Mound Food Pantry. Our food drive will be this week, Oct. 31- Nov. 4th. Please send in non-perishable food items. Thank you for helping us with this community service project!!
More pics from Fall Family Reading Night
Mrs. Quinlan and Mrs Spain had Family Reading Nights last week.
Fall Family Reading Night Pics
Thank You to Ameren for the presentation on electricity & natural gas safety, STEM activity making potato clocks, and for showing us the Ameren bucket truck. The 3rd & 4th graders really enjoyed your program!
The theme for today's Little Hawks playgroup was Five Little Pumpkins!
To find out more about our playgroups and activities going on in the community for our 0-5 age group, check out the October Newsletter:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yltDqos-ahb2unlv1-7xFwjFJUQCkgX93A6axikkhbc/edit?usp=sharing
3rd and 4th grade students learned about electricity and safety from Ameren today! They were even able to make a potato clock!
PreK and our Little Hawks visited Pumpkin Creek Farms last week!
Red Ribbon Week High School Readers
Thank You to the MHS students who visited MES today! We appreciated the SADD students reading a book to us with the message to "Just Say NO To Drugs!"
Family Reading Night 📚 🍂
