Episode 8 of The Wave is published! Huge thanks to Mrs. Buchholz and Mrs. Slavik for sitting down to talk about some of the great things that are happening at Turtle Lake-Mercer School. Check out The Wave @ https://youtu.be/k3HR5Hsxctg
Thank you to South McLean Soil Conservation Office for sponsoring Tom Gibson's visit to TL-M School. Tom has been traveling around the state as "Sam Ting" and many other characters to teach students about conservation and the importance of taking care of our land and water for many years. Tom will be retiring soon and we were fortunate to be part of one of his last presentations. You can check out his website at: https://samtingonline.com/
Each Monday in December students in grades K-12 will be participating in Turtle Talk! Yesterday's Turtle Talk was "Would You Rather" Christmas Edition! This December activity is brought to you by the TL-M Climate and Culture team!
TL-M students in grades 7-12 are invited to the Underwood Snowball this Saturday, December 7th.
Save the date! The TL-M Family and Community Engagement team invites you to our 3rd Annual Family Dance on Saturday, January 11th from 7:00 - 8:30 P.M. Dress up the family and head out for an evening of dancing, cookies, and hot chocolate!
Thank you to St. Olaf Lutheran Church for the bountiful amount of Kleenex! We appreciate these supplies and will be very useful to our school.
Please join the TL-M music department on Thursday, December 12th at 6:15 for the elementary Christmas program and at 7:30 for the 7-12 band/choir concert. We hope to see you there!
Today we enjoyed homemade apple crisp with our Thanksgiving meal! Thank you to the Kinn family for the donation of apples from their tree!
Wishing all a Happy Thanksgiving!
Congratulations to Inaia Way who was selected as a trumpet alternate for the UND Honor Band and also selected to participate in the UND Treble Honor Choir as a soprano 1! Inaia will be traveling to UND in January along with other musicians from around the state to participate in a 3-day weekend long festival.
Reminder that we do not have school on Wednesday, November 27th. Enjoy the long Thanksgiving weekend and we will see all students back on Monday, December 2nd.
The third graders had a blast completing a Thanksgiving Feast Madlib, where they filled in blanks with different parts of speech like nouns, verbs, and adjectives to create a silly, creative story about their Thanksgiving feast. After finishing their Madlibs, the third graders read their funny stories aloud to the first graders, who giggled and joined in the fun.
Questions you could ask your child:
What was the funniest part of the Thanksgiving Feast Madlib you created?
What is a noun, verb, and adjective?
Episode 7 of The Wave has been published. Thank you to Max and Elliot for sitting down with Mr. Ziebarth today to talk about math. Also, a huge thank you to Mrs. Lelm for letting us use her room for recording today. Episode 7 can be found at https://youtu.be/LUHOEOtwaQw
Every episode is also available on our school webpage and YouTube.
Due to the late start today, there will be no Pre-K class.
Due to poor visibility, school will start 2 hours late today (Wednesday, November 20th).Staff report at 10:00, doors open at 10:00, classes start at 10:30. No breakfast will be served.
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!
