MEEKER | This month the Meeker Elementary School Library received a puppet theater along with many puppets in memory of Jeanne Moritz. Jeanne was a first-grade teacher with the Meeker School District in 1974 and Meeker Elementary was her first teaching position. Teacher Mrs. Becky Hughes remembers Jeanne and also[Read More…]
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Celebrating our migratory birds
MEEKER | The Blanco Ranger District, White River National Forest, will be celebrating World Migratory Bird Day with Meeker Elementary and Barone Middle Schools. This is our 22nd year. Students in 4th–7th grade will participate in PowerPoint presentations on this year’s theme ‘Protect Insects, Protect Birds’ and will go on[Read More…]
Meeker Elementary students earn prizes for reading
About 80 Meeker Elementary Students participated in the reading competition. Prizes were distributed according to the most minutes read by each student. MEEKER | This past week concluded the Meeker Elementary School Reading Competition! About 80 elementary students participated in the contest. The prizes were distributed according to the[Read More…]
SUPER SPELLER
NIKI TURNER photo Thirty-one Meeker Elementary School first through fifth graders competed in the school’s annual spelling bee on Thursday, Feb. 8. This year’s spelling bee champion is fifth-grader Samantha Patton. The words presented were from the 2024 Scripps National Spelling Bee and were available to students to study and[Read More…]
Letters to Santa 2023
Need a little Christmas spirit? Enjoy this selection of letters from Meeker and Parkview elementary school students. I have good news and bad news. The good news is I have bine good this year. Bad news I lost my glove, but fond it. That’s a good thing, right? Also can[Read More…]
Time for learning …
(Top) Parkview Elementary students in Rangely started the year on Wednesday, Aug. 23. (Bottom) buses wait for Meeker Elementary students to board after the first day of school, Aug. 21. Katie Faye King/Caitlin Walker Photos
MHS greenhouse to be finished by August
MEEKER | Construction of the greenhouse at Meeker High School is expected to be complete by August, according to Principal Amy Chinn, in time for the 2023-24 school year. At Barone Middle School, HVAC upgrades are underway. Meeker Board of Education members met Monday, June 26. They approved a resolution[Read More…]
Tweet all about it …
COURTESY/BOBBY GUTIERREZ PHOTOS For 21 years Mary Cunningham has taken Meeker elementary and middle school students on field trips around town to introduce kids to local and migrating bird species in celebration of World Migratory Bird Day. Though Cunningham has officially retired from her role at the U.S. Forest Service,[Read More…]
Letter: MES thanks Clark’s
Dear Editor, Meeker Elementary would like to thank the owners and employees of Clark’s Big Burger for their sponsorship of our 3 Bee behavior initiative. This year Meeker Elementary has awarded 112 students for being safe, being responsible, and being kind with a free ice cream cone generously donated from[Read More…]
Super Readers
Meeker Elementary School recently finished a reading competition for Kindergarten through fifth grade. The three students in each grade who read the most minutes received $75, $50, and $25 in Chamber Bucks for first, second, and third place, respectively. Grade level winners are as follows: Kindergarten — William Edinger, Kimber[Read More…]
Letters to Santa
“Dear Santa, I hope Rudolph is not getting funned at. I hope on Christmas eve the northen lights stay on all night. Can I please have a harmonica? Do you like cookies or candy canes?” ~ N. Lehmann Mrs. Hughes first grade class Meeker Elementary School “Dear Santa, I have[Read More…]
ONESEED DONATION
Meeker Elementary School is working alongside OneSeed, a non-profit based in Ghana, West Africa, to participate in a full year Sister-School Cultural Exchange Project with Wisdom Ways Academy in Haatso, Accra. The effort is headed by Meeker native Aubrey Walsh. To kick off the partnership, Meeker Elementary School students will[Read More…]
