Turtle Lake-Mercer

Congratulations to Von Irwin who signed to play football at Sterling College in Kansas this fall. Good luck, Von, we are excited for you to take this next step in your education and athletic career!

A wonderful night of music for the 7th - 12th grade band and choir! Great job to Mrs. Wyman and the students, you sounded wonderful!

4th Grade Seed Balls: Volunteers from the Audubon National Wildlife Refuge visited our classroom to teach us how to make seed balls to plant to celebrate Earth Day. Where are you going to plant your seed balls?  What are the seed balls made of?  

Elementary volleyball jamboree in Wilton this Saturday, April 20th. TLMM plays at 8:30 AM! Adult admission is $5 and student admission is $3! Go Trojans!

The Turtle Lake-Mercer Students that participated in Math Meet were: 5th Grade: Bridger Martin, Elizabeth Britton, Hadley Ziebarth, Asher Anderson, Parker Ruffo, and Silas Markley 6th Grade: Makinlee Haas, Clayton Fast, Luke Walcker, Kenzee Hanson, Kaylee Rust, and Lily Christensen Congrats to all team members! Make IT Count!

Turtle Lake-Mercer School hosted the 2024 McLean County Math Meet today! Mrs. Lelm and Mrs. Schumann put a lot of work into organizing a great event. Deb and Rhonda helped out in the kitchen to provide lunch also! Around 100 5th and 6th Grade students competed in 5 individual competitions and a team test today. Results were as follows: 5th Grade Individuals, 1st Place - Luke Laning (Washburn), 2nd Place- Elizabeth Britton (TL-M), 3rd Place - Malachi Treybig (Washburn), 4th Place - Liam Solomonson (Washburn), 5th Place - Brady Warkenthien (Wilton), 6th Place - Bridger Martin (TL-M) Team Awards: 1st Place - Washburn, 2nd Place - Wilton, 3rd Place - TL-M 6th Grade Individuals, 1st Place - Brady Adams (Max), 2nd Place - Ryan Bingham (Max), 3rd Place - Nora Vesey (Wilton), 4th Place - Kamri Kitzman (Center-Stanton), 5th Place - Isaac Beehler (Washburn), 6th Place - Brea Hartley (Center-Stanton) Team Awards: 1st Place - Max, 2nd Place - Center/Stanton, 3rd Place - Garrison Congrats to all participants today!!!

Hank LaBore was a guest teacher in fourth grade on Friday and presented “Water, Land and People”. It was a fun filled day and the students learned much about ND. What was your favorite game we played?  What is a watershed?

Thank you to Jammy Ryckman with NorthStar Marketing! They provided a 65 inch TV for our cafeteria to display announcements. Students will be able to see leave times for contests, athletic events, and other important events along with lunch menus and other important information. Thanks to Case and McKenzie for being our students to showcase this great addition to TL-M School!

It's a beautiful day for prom! Grand March is at 7:00 PM, doors will open at 6:00 PM! Grand March will be available on Facebook Live if you can't join us in the gym!

2nd grade has been learning about 2D and 3D shapes. Today they made some art using only 2D shapes. Questions to ask. 1. What shapes did you use on your art? 2. What did you create with your shapes?

Some of our FCCLA members attend State FCCLA this week in Bismarck. Members attended sessions, voted for state and national officers, and competed in their STAR Events. STAR Event Results are as follows: Kensley Ruffo - Food Innovations - Silver and Advancing to Nationals Logan O’Shea, Rhett Laib, Jaxson Wagner - Repurpose and Redesign - Silver

Congratulations to Max Blotter! Max is the newest entry into the Million Word Club! Keep up the great work! "Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let's not forget this." – Dave Eggers

Congratulations to Mya Kittler, Nora Fiedler, Zella Anderson, and Vivian Schalfmann for qualifying for state music for their saxophone quartet. TL-M has not had an instrumental group attend state music in over 10 years! Way to make it count girls!! Attend the TL-M concert next Thursday at 7pm to hear them play along with many other HS groups that got top scores at regional music contest.

The Kindergartners have been talking about living things. Today we planted grass in our new Kindergarten neighborhood! Question to ask: 1. What does a plant need to grow?

REMINDER: Spring Picture Day is tomorrow: Friday, April 12. Order online at my.lifetouch.com using Picture Day ID EVTSMFJ7Z. Or stop by the office for an order form.

5th grade finished up their “stars” unit and our final project was a science project that students had to compete at home. We had about 3 weeks to create a 3D representation of a constellation of their choice. There was not only a creative component to this project but we had to use some math as well. Students researched each star of their constellation including their distances from earth. When creating their model, they measured distances for their stars by converting each 10 light years into centimeters and had to place their stars accordingly!   This assignment also included a research paper about their constellation and we worked on those in class. Questions to ask you student: What was the hardest part of constructing your model and why? What is the mythology about your constellation?

4th Grade students are studying collisions. Here are some questions to ask about their activity. How did energy transfer from the ball to the cork?  Which type of ball made the cork travel the furthest?  What is the energy of motion called?  

Please join the TL-M Music Department on Thursday, April 18th at 7:00 P.M. for the 7th-12th band and choir concert!

Kindergarten has been learning about 2D shapes. Today we talked about Hexagons! We used marshmallows and toothpicks to make our own! Questions to ask: 1. How many sides does a Hexagon have? 2. What is a vertex?

We have some very exciting news here at TL-M! Over the summer, our school will be getting a facelift which will result in brand new classroom windows and a new cafeteria entrance. With this project and the completion of the gym floor, we will all be returning to school in the fall to a bright, new environment!