Get your bags packed...Cougar Volleyball is heading to STATE! Here are the Student Section Dress-Up Days: Thursday is Camo Day, Friday is Monochromatic Day, and Saturday is COUGAR Day! Good luck at State!!!
Students from Turtle Lake-Mercer High School competed in the Mclean County High School Math Meet in Wilton. The 11-12 Division Team took 3rd Place. Aiden Hanson took third overall in individual competition.
The 9-10 Division Team took 3rd Place. Griffin Kraft was the Individual Champion for the division. Congratulations to all participants.
Winter weather is coming this week. Please make sure your child has the proper clothing for outside recess including gloves, hat, snow pants, and a winter coat.
The 6th graders have been reading about the brain and how neurons send messages to parts of the body. Today they did an activity where the brain (first person in line) sends a message (number between 1and 3) along the neurons (students on the middle) to the hand (last person in the line).
Questions to ask these students: Did changing the "brain" and the "hand" make a difference in response time? Which message (number) was the easiest to relay? .....the most difficult?
There will be no school on Friday, November 22nd for State Class B Volleyball in Fargo. Good luck to the Central McLean Cougars Volleyball Team at State!
Basketball has been a hot topic in PE so far this week. At home, have your child show you their dribbling skills we have been working on!
Congratulations to Lily Christensen and Jenna Goven for making it into the Junior High ND All-State Choir! Hayden Lelm and Henry Wardner made it in as alternates and will attend the festival if they need someone to fill in for a missing student. Around 600 JH students from around the state of ND send in audition tapes and only 190 students are selected for these choirs. TL-M is proud to have these students represent our school at this festival.
Today our TL-M teachers and staff participated in a competitive game of Paper-Rock-Scissors! Congratulations to our champ, Bridget Willis!!
We had a great Veteran's Breakfast at Turtle Lake-Mercer School this morning. Deb and Rhonda prepared a great breakfast and decorated the cafeteria to honor our distinguished guests. Thank you to all veterans for service to our country.
Episode 6 of The Wave has been published. Ty and Carson sat down as the guests on the podcast. Check it out at https://youtu.be/uG6kuhub7Oo
You can also find all our podcasts on YouTube and on our school webpage.
The school received another generous donation of school supplies from St. Paul Lutheran Church in Butte, ND. Thank you!
Ryan Olson from the ND CPA society came in to speak to Mrs. Slavik's Career Management class about career opportunities in accounting. Questions to ask your student include:
1) What does CPA stand for?
2) Do you need to be great at math to be an accountant?
3) How much schooling is required to become an accountant?
Kindergarten had their own election today after reading Duck for President! They were able to cast their ballot and Duck beat Farmer Brown by 2 votes! They even received a sticker for voting! Questions to ask:
How did you vote for? Duck or Farmer Brown
How any votes did Duck win by?
Just in time for Veterans Day and Voting Day the 6th graders are doing a patriotic unit at the start of November in music class. They are talking about what it means to be patriotic and listening/singing a variety of patriotic songs. Ask your student: What makes a song patriotic? Can you name or sing a patriotic song? Which song has the same tune as “God Save the King” from England?
Good evening TL-M Families! Just a reminder that tomorrow is class pictures and individual retake picture day! Forms were sent home with students or can be picked up in the office!
The Spanish class finished up their unit on El Dia de los Muertos today by making alebrijes. Some of the things we did during this unit include making papel picado banners, el pan de muerto cookies, and we set up an ofrenda in the classroom. Preguntas (questions) to ask your estudiante:
Explain the Day of the Dead holiday. What is an alebrije? Why do people put pan de muertos(bread of the dead) on the altars? What flower is associated with the Day of the Dead? Is Day of the Dead a scary holiday for Mexicans?
Turtle Lake-Mercer School is excited to host a Veteran's Breakfast on November 8th in the school cafeteria from 8:00 AM to 8:30 AM. This event is open to all Turtle Lake-Mercer area veterans to honor them as we approach Veteran's day. Please share this message with any area veterans that may not follow the school happenings closely.
Happy Halloween from Turtle Lake - Mercer!
The Agricultural Mechanics class is TIG welding. Questions to ask students: What amperage are you welding at? What polarity is the electrode set at? What angle do you sharpen your tungsten to?
Today's the day! Dessert Music and More starts at 7:00 TONIGHT! See you there!
