Today, our student teacher, Ms. Alsidnawai read My Name is Bana by Bana Alabed and shared about her life experience and Syrian culture…something so many of our Meridian Elementary can relate to! 🇸🇾 She even taught us some words in Arabic! #KnowMeKnowMyStory

Special delivery, Meridian Elementary! Candy Cane Grams are on their way thanks to some conventional mail carriers! 📫

Counted down to “noon” years with sparkling apple cider and a review of our classroom routines! Loved hearing about the promises these first graders are making to themselves in 2024 🥳🪩 Meridian Elementary

They say that it takes a village… …this little guy is so lucky to have M. Gilliland in his! She told him that she was proud of him and he reminds me every day! “Mrs. Gilliland, she loves me! She’s so proud of me…she’s so cool!” Relationships matter 💙 Meridian Elementary

Family Teacher Teams: First Grade. Awesome turn out despite the rain. Lots of LOVE and growth shown ❤️ Thank you for joining us karenclarkmejia!

Spreading love to the best counselor around who always brings the sunshine 🌷☀️ Meridian Elementary Meridian Counselor Thanks for all you do!

Our first time playing Blah Blah Blah from Mrs Wordsmith and it’s a huge hit! The best part is that the kids think we’re playing Uno during reading groups 🤫 don’t tell them we’re learning… Meridian Elementary CVUSD Literacy

This morning at Meridian Elementary we focused on community and literacy! For Family Reading Friday we welcomed in our grown-ups to share in some phonics fun with our favorite reading games 💛💙 CVUSD Literacy

This weekend I was lucky to spend time with some members of my Meridian Elementary community when we were invited to a Syrian cooking class. We learned about Ramadan traditions and shared a delicious meal. Such a special experience! 🌙💙 #ramadanmubarak CajonValleyUSD Anne Fishburne

Today we opened up our Meridian Elementary flower shop! First graders spread kindness by selling beautiful bouquets to our ASU+GSV Summit and THE SHOW @ ASU+GSV guests 💐🌻🌷 CGI mathematicians practiced giving correct change CVUSD Math to happy customers! Thanks Allen's Flowers CajonValleyUSD

The first grade fire department is ready to keep our Meridian Elementary community safe! We’re excited to show off how we stop, drop, and roll 🔥🚒🧯 and how we walk through obstacles to get to people in need World of Work™️

Student voice in setting classroom goals! We reflected on things we couldn’t do at the beginning of the year and celebrated how far we’ve come with hard work and practice! Hopefully the ✨magical yet✨ will be with us when we take the iReady diagnostic next week! Meridian Elementary

It’s cool to be at school! 19 of my first graders had perfect attendance this week! ☺️

“How do you spell…?” 🙋🏽 Empowering Ss with confidence to write! Keeping them accountable by having them tap and write the sounds that they hear 1st. The post it is theirs to keep to refer back to! Sometimes they don’t even need my help after all! Meridian Elementary CVUSD Literacy

Thankful for this story from Nabela Noor to help lead a community circle. Students shared about how powerful words can be & decided to make the world more beautiful by spreading kindness ❤️ kids were excited to see similarities between Bangladesh and their culture. Meridian Elementary

Our classroom hero, The Good Egg 🥚showed us how we can practice Self Awareness when we have big feelings! A great example of growing with GRIT for our first and second grade Meridian Elementary Mountain Lions 💙 Meridian Counselor