With the continued forecast for ice in the morning, Meridian Schools will be closed on Monday, January 22. Since we cancelled, hopefully this will be the incentive for mother nature to go somewhere else!
Rube Goldberg Project
Meridian Elementary School 5th grade students are participating in Engineering in the Classroom, which is a program led by engineers from our community. We have 3 engineers working with our classes. Ann Talbert is from ADM working with Mrs. Meisenhelter’s class, Bryon West from AGI working with Mr. Punches’ class, and Christa Briggs working with Mr. Snively’s class. Students are going to be creating a Rube Goldberg project. The goal of the project is to insert a piece of toast into the toaster and remove the toast by two different operations. We will take our projects to the local showcase to be judged against other local schools. The top five places will be awarded prizes for their school and the top three finishers from the local competition will be eligible to advance to the regional showcase at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
So far, students have been learning the basic principles and fields of engineering. Students have learned about Newton’s three Laws of Motion, potential and kinetic energy and simple machines. Students have also been learning some new vocabulary words that have to do with becoming an engineer – visionary and researcher. We have also seen some example pictures and videos of other Rube Goldberg machines to get some inspiration. Students in each classroom will be broken into specialized teams; Design, Construction, Journal, Theme, and Advertising. Each team will have a special job in creating our project.
Congratulations to our January Students of the Month!
Kindergarten: Kohen Seitz, Emma Stower, Taylor Brown, Kaiden Best
1st grade: Kinzer Hamilton, AnnaBeth McCurry, William Holdener, Adelyn Perrey
2nd grade: Hannah Keller, Talia Kinney-Coash, Bryker Woods, Teddie England
3rd grade: Anderson Oliver, Blake Manon, Luke Delatte, William Manley
4th grade: Noah Hall, Mariyah Newman, Bryley Booth
5th grade: Lauren Lester, Levi Henderson, Hudson Noland
Thursday Lunch Menu Change
Due to tomorrow’s snow day the menu for Thursday will be changed. Wednesday's menu will remain the same.
Thursday:
French toast sticks
Sausage patty
Hash brown
Pears
With the forecasted wind chill being -20* in the morning, Meridian Schools will be closed on Tuesday, January 16. Enjoy the snow day!
MES Lunch Menu Change
Thursday:
cheese pizza
pineapple
mixed vegetables
goldfish
Friday:
cheese toasty
tomato soup
mixed fruit
crackers
Congratulations to MES students Alexis Webster and Kynleigh Gillen for being selected to show their artwork in the 2024 Young Artist Showcase. This exhibition is artwork by local young artists in 5th-8th grades. The exhibit is presented by Gallery 510 and is held at the Madden Arts Center in the Anne Lloyd Gallery. The exhibit will be on display January 4th- 25th from 8:30-4:30 Monday-Friday and 10-2 on Saturdays. If possible stop in to see all the amazing artwork from our local youth artists.
Meridian Elementary has an opening for an elementary teacher which will begin on January 22.
https://www.illinoiseducationjobbank.org/Job-Posting/148130/Elementary-Teacher-second-grade/job-details
Happy Holidays from Meridian Schools!
Pre-K had Buddy Movie Day at the Community Center!! Thank you to Rural King for donating the yummy popcorn!!
Some fun today in 5th grade. Students were escaping our commons with an Escape Classroom activity.
Little Hawks Playgroup will resume January 11th. Here is the newsletter for more information on playgroups and community events/activities for little ones:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1f_sveJ1uW4baGfO5-R3eG0lm286GC7jG4Ns4hWIb-zA/edit?usp=sharing
First Graders are practicing adding on with dice.
Third Grade Readers read Gingerbread Man Loose in the School and then they hunted for Gingerbreadmen in their school.
Congratulations to our Meridian Elementary School December Students of the Month!
Kindergarten - Elena Murray, Cash Moronez, Elsie Lash, Nora Nashland
1st - Ruby Koehler, Milo Hall, Hudson Horne, Vivian Booth
2nd - Justin Robling, Waylon Wilson, Simon Pfeiffer, Brooklyn Keller
3rd - Lily Sauer, Cameron Kutola, Avery Colbrook, Davis Chappell
4th - Caleb Smithers, Wren Pfeiffer, Jerzee Grider
5th - Paislee Thomas, Lillyann Harris, Brylee Britton
We had a surprise visitor today!!
Fifth graders have been reading about forensic science. Today we did an experiment to try and identify each other's fingerprints 🔍
Please see the attachment for an employment opportunity at Meridian Elementary.
First graders had fun doing mirror sight words! ❄️
We are very excited for 4th grader Elaina Kater who is playing Randy Parker in Theatre 7's A Christmas Story the Musical. Performances start this weekend!
