Meiners Oaks Elementary School

Mrs. Wheeler's second grade class listened to The Little Red Hen story in the Fall, and planted wheat seeds in the school garden. They've been growing all year. Today, we harvested the wheat, separated seeds from chaff, ground the seeds into flour, made dough and rolled tortillas. Miss Greta cooked our tortillas on her camp grill in the garden. Then we got to eat them. Yum! A bonus was harvesting and eating mulberries from the garden.

Happy Principal Appreciation Day to our beloved Mrs. Abeloe. She joined our sweet school in August and if you can believe it made our campus even sweeter. Thank you for being so loving, kind, smart, creative, funny and the perfect addition to our tribe!! We appreciate you soooo much!!!

Art was made by every single one of our cubs 🫶

Thank you Ojai Valley Woman's Club and Federation of Women's Club for the thoughtful goodie bags delivered to our staff today. The time and effort you all put into making these is incredible and we are forever grateful.

Annnnnnd their off. Our 5th grade cubs are headed to Catalina for a few days of exploring, adventuring and expanding their minds.



Thank you Meiners Oaks Ptsa for helping our kiddos experience such a memorable trip.

Every year for the past nine years Mr. Mendoza has been playing the bagpipes at our school in celebration of the Irish holiday, St. Patrick's Day. He wears the traditional uniform of a Scottish piper which includes a kilt.

More than 150 years ago the Irish and Scottish immigrated to America. Once here, these immigrants often took what were low paying, dangerous jobs like coal miners, firefighters, and policer officers.

One of the traditions these immigrants brought with them was playing the Great Highland bagpipes at weddings, dances, funerals and parties. That is why today, bagpipers are associated with fire and police departments.

Today marks the end of an era for this tradition at Meiners Oaks Elementary. We have been so honored to have this special treat year after year. Thank you Aimee and Dave for your time and dedication to our cubs.

A happy Wednesday it is. What a lovely and thoughtful gift that was delivered by a very special mom. We have been shown so much love, care, compassion and gratitude from our Mountain Lion families and the community. We are forever grateful for each and every one of you.

Learning nutrition and math all in one. Our lovely Preschool teacher built a fruit stand in her classroom for our littlest cubs. They are learning about each fruit and vegetable as well as how/where we buy these amazing foods. They have loved running their own TK fruit stand.

Thank you for hosting a bagel-thon for school staff. What a lovely surprise and delicious treat to fill our tummies and keep us going through these crazy times.