Kindergarten: Curriculum and Schedule
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We recently shared some insight into what makes our kindergarten program special. This week we’re exploring our academic curricula and...

A New Halloween Tradition: The Switch Witch
Wondering what to do with all the excess trick-or-treat candy your child will be amassing on Halloween? Several Meher School families...


Preschool to Kindergarten: One Family’s Experience
Soon we’ll be inviting the parents of our older preschoolers to apply for kindergarten. They’ll need to let us know by February whether...

A Bright and Caring Environment, Full of Potential
Meet new third grade co-teacher Kimberly Marks With seven years’ teaching experience, including two at highly regarded private schools,...

Warren Wallace’s Escape from Alcatraz
Sometime during the night of June 12, 1962, three prisoners escaped from Alcatraz. They were never heard from again. Did they make it? Or...


Mari Pongkhamsing Has Plans for Our Library
Meet Mari Pongkhamsing, our new librarian. Mari has been a student and a parent and a teacher at The Meher Schools and has worked here on...

A Song for Ukraine’s Children
One of our fifth graders was awed by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s leadership when his country was invaded by Russia in...

Meher Schools Alum Named U.S. Attorney for New Mexico
Meher Schools graduate Alexander M. M. Uballez was sworn in on May 24 as the U.S. attorney for the District of New Mexico. Alex was...


Librarian to Retire from “This Place of Love”
After 33 years of checking books out and in, shelving them, and teaching library classes and reading stories to thousands of children,...


I Think I Can, I Know I Can!
Free Copies of Book Co-Authored by Susie Kohl and Wendy Ritchey Available to Parents and Teachers In the early days of the pandemic, we...


Spring Dance: 500 People Sharing A Happy Evening Together
Five hundred people – probably the most ever at a Meher Schools event – gathered on the playground Saturday for an evening of music,...


Mythical Costumes
COSTUMER Sue Tacker, our special projects coordinator, is altering or making 68 costumes for this year’s fifth grade play, The Cycle of...


From The Lion King to The White Pony
If you’re someone who watches the credits at the end of movies and you happened to be watching The Lion King (or Pocahontas or James and...


Pediatritian Joins the Board
Pediatrician Gwen Hamilton joined our board of directors Sunday. She replaces psychologist Wendy Ritchey, who retired after 19 years on...


A Glimpse Inside the World of Video Games
Meher School alumnus Colin MacKie knows video games inside out – literally. He’s been designing them for nearly 25 years and has worked...

Celebrating the Contributions of Meher Schools Women
They’re the mothers, grandmothers, aunts, and a nanny of Meher Schools students. They work in health care, social services, education,...


Kitties, Bunnies, Engineering, and Math
There are many reasons people love to crochet. That crocheting animals involves engineering and math is probably not high on most...

Toy, Clothing & Book Swap and the WPE Connection
White Pony General Store Originated Here We’ll be accepting donations for our Toy, Clothing & Book Swap through Friday. As you go through...


The Mysteries of Starlite
Starlite is an amazing material that has been perplexing scientists for four decades. It can withstand temperatures of thousands of...


Expecting and Excited
Room 10 first grade teacher Laura White announced to her class last week that she’s going to have a baby. Once they got over their...
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