The 8th graders have been busy in the shop making bird houses! Be sure to ask the students about what tools and techniques they used.
Kindergarten along with some high school helpers made gingerbread houses today! Questions to ask:
1.How many graham cracker did you have to use to build your house?
2.What was your favorite candy to add to your house?
7th Grade FACS Class made breakfast bagel sandwiches in lab this week. They first made homemade bagels yesterday and then cooked egg, ham and cheese to add to the inside today. A couple of questions for these students are:
How did you make the bagels?
What ingredients did you use to make the bagels?
What kitchen equipment did you use for this lab?
What did you have on your sandwich?
How did this lab go?
Would you do this at home?
The FFA Pizza order came in today. People who ordered pizzas can expect to get a delivery from an FFA member soon.
The FFA Fruit Order will arrive on the morning of Monday, December 16th. Pickup for fruit for FFA members will happen from 9:30 AM to 3:30 PM on Monday, December 16th.
Tonight is the night! Elementary program starts at 6:15 followed by the 7-12 program at 7:30. Come join the TL-M Music Department for an evening of Christmas cheer! See you there!
Today the PreK added their ornaments to the Christmas tree in the lobby! Stop by and check out all the ornaments made by classes!
On Dec 11th, our chapter members hit the road to max to compete at the District 2 LDE!!. Congratulations to all the members who competed! The results are as follows:
Creed: Jameson- Silver
Prepared Public Speaking: Remi Laib- Bronze
Employment Skills: 3rd Place ! Mya Kittler- Gold
Extemporaneous Public Speaking: Charlotte Wilson-Bronze
Demonstration: Molly Wilson- Silver
Greenhand Quiz: Team- Bronze
Rhett Laib- Silver
Griffin Kraft- Bronze
Anna Hagen- Bronze
Advanced Quiz: 3rd Place ! Team- Gold
Cheyanne Schumann- Gold
McKenna Faulkner- Gold
Mya Kittler- Gold
Remi Laib- Silver
Kaden Lelm- Silver
Conduct of Chapter Meetings:
Team- Gold (State Qualified)
Cooper Kittler- Gold (President of the day)
Griffin Kraft- Bronze
Rhett Laib- Gold
Jaxon Wagner- Bronze
Anna Hagen- Gold (Reporter of the Day)
Royce Wardner- Gold (Sentinel of the Day)
Parliamentary Procedure: 4th Place!
Team- Silver
Kaden Lelm- Silver
McKenna Faulkner- Silver
Austin Wall- Bronze
Kaleb Lelm- Silver
Mya Kittler- Silver
Remi Laib- Silver
The Meeting Conduct Team will compete at STATE in Bismarck on Jan 7th!
It was a competitive day for the TLM FFA Chapter !
Zella Anderson, Ariel Gilseth, and Charlie Sparrow attended the 2024 North Dakota State Student Council Convention from December 8th through December 10th. Ariel ran for State Representative and delivered her speech to 1,400 students. Senator Hoeven was one of the keynote speakers for the wonderful event.
If you watched the most recent podcast episode of The Wave, you may have heard Mrs. Slavik talking about TL-M's care closets. Our care closets are stalked with essentials like hairbrushes, deodorant, body soap, non-perishable food items, grab-and-go snacks, clothing, winter gear, and more! These closets are provided to all TL-M students in partnership with Northland Health Centers. If anybody is looking for a way to help support this initiative, please consider checking out our school's wishlist items on Amazon using the link below.
https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/OFX12J1K01DW?ref_=wl_fv_le
The Occupationally Applied Math Class is studying careers in Health Care. Mrs. Mendy Neff , NRP( National Register Paramedics) spoke to the class. Question to ask: 1. How do Parmedics use math?
2nd grade has started to learn how to write in cursive. Questions to ask them: 1. How should your paper be positioned when writing?
What letters have you learned how to write in cursive?
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!
