Enjoying the memories of our 2024-2025 school year. What a great year it has been so far! What's your favorite memory? #Memories
REMINDER: The deadline for filing to have a candidate’s name printed on the ballot for the Turtle Lake-Mercer School District No. 72 is before 4:00 p.m., April 7, 2025. For more information, visit our website at https://www.tlm.k12.nd.us/page/election.
2nd grade did their annual basketball classroom transformation day. We did many fun activities revolving around basketball! Questions to ask: 1. What was your favorite activity? 2. What book won the book tournament?
The Turtle Lake-Mercer FFA Banquet is Sunday, April 13th in the Ed Rath Auditorium at Turtle Lake-Mercer School. The meal will begin at 5:30 PM followed by the banquet. State FFA Treasurer, Anna Palmer, is the special guest speaker.
The 3rd graders embarked on a fun and creative research project, where they first learned about famous people from history. They used books and online resources to gather facts and details about their chosen individual, taking notes on their accomplishments, major contributions, and important events in their life. After completing their research and writing a biography about their famous person, the students then turned their focus to the artistic side of the project: creating a potato head that resembled their famous person. Using materials like markers, construction paper, and various craft supplies, they carefully designed a potato character that captured the look and spirit of the person they had studied. The final result was a blend of creativity, research, and hands-on fun!
Questions to ask a third graders:
1. Who was the famous person you chose and why are they famous?
2. What materials did you use to create a potato head resembling their famous person?
Parent / Teacher Conferences today! School will be dismissed at 1:00 pm today.
See you soon!
8th grade FACS paired with Kindergarten to hand sew some monsters. The kindergarteners drew a picture of a monster and answered some questions about their monster. Then, the 8th graders sewed their monster and wrote a short story to go with it. Since March is reading month, the 8th graders spent time this morning reading the kindergarteners their story! This project was loved by all.
A couple of questions for these kids could be: what does your monster look like? What was your story about?
This morning we continued our Reading Month activities by having a few of our boys basketball players read to classes in the lower elementary!
Congratulations to Brooklyn Tomlinson for being selected to participate in the ND All-State Treble Chorus. Students are selected through a live audition process that happens in a January. She will be traveling to Bismarck on March 23-25 to participate in the festival.
Thank you to everyone who joined us for Donuts with Adults this morning! It was a huge success! Thank you, Mrs. Voth, for organizing today's event!📚
Reminder: Parent/Teacher Conferences are on Tuesday, March 18, 2025 from 1:30 pm - 7:30 pm. Get signed up to meet with your student's teacher. School will be dismissed for the day at 1:00 pm.
Occupationally Applied Math students are tax accountants. Deciding on which tax form to use.
What is the difference between 1040EZ, 1040A, and 1040?
What is AGI?
The ND State Scholastic Chess Tournament is March 29th at Shiloh Christian School in Bismarck. The attached flyer has more information.
TL-M would like to welcome Sharon Bassett to the kitchen staff! Sharon is helping to prepare a daily salad bar for our students!
Students in Grades 4 through 7 received The Academy by T. Z. Layton today. This is our book for "One Book-One School" this year. Students are encouraged to read the book during reading month and have an opportunity to win some prizes. This is the first book in a series. Huge thanks to Kelly Voth, our school librarian, for organizing this awesome reading opportunity for our students!
The Girls' State Basketball Shirts will be available for pick up at the school starting at 8:00.
Parent/Teacher Conferences are set for Tuesday, March 18, 2025 from 1:30 pm - 7:30 pm.
February was National Random Acts of Kindness month. Throughout the month, students were asked to write down acts of kindness they saw around the school to be hung on our kindness tree in the lobby. Over 100 acts of kindness were written over the course of the month! Some conversation starters you can use with your students to keep the conversation around kindness alive are:
What does being kind mean to you?
What is one way you showed kindness to somebody recently?
Has anybody ever done a random act of kindness for you?
Today, Turtle Lake-Mercer School kicked off Reading Month with Turtle Talks. The students in Grades K-12 were partnered up and shared a bookmark making activity, snack, and book discussions.
In discussion with our fellow Central McLean-Cougar schools, Turtle Lake-Mercer School has made the decision to dismiss at 12:00 noon on Thursday, March 6th due to the Girls Basketball Team playing in the 2025 State B Basketball Tournament. Central McLean Girls take on Langdon Area-Munich at 2:45 PM at the Jamestown Civic Center.