Turtle Lake-Mercer

Any Turtle Lake-Mercer students that are interested in purchasing Letter Jackets or Class Rings can do so through the following website: https://view.vidreach.io/q/RcD699ak Letter Jackets must be ordered by October 25th in order to receive them by Christmas.

Kindergarten and Anatomy partnered up today to do some pumpkin math and carving! They started by making measurement guesses. They then used unifix cubes to measure height, used links to measure how big around, counted seeds, checked to see if they sink or float, and got to finish by carving them! Fun was had by all! Questions to ask: 1. Do the pumpkins sink for float? 2. How many unifix cubes tall was your pumpkin?

The Cougars have qualified for football playoffs! The game will be played in Turtle Lake on Saturday October 19th @ 2:00. If you would like to go, the tickets can be purchased on gofan.co. They are $10/adult and $5/student if you purchase them digitally, but if you buy them when you get here it is $15/adult. Plan ahead and use gofan.co to get your tickets for Saturday's game!

Attention Parent or Guardian! Parent-teacher conferences are scheduled from 1:30 to 7:30 PM on Thursday, October 24 2024. Register online at https://www.ptcfast.com/schools/Turtle_Lake_Mercer. If you need help with registration, call the school office at 701-448-2365. Please note that school will dismiss at 1:00 PM the day of conferences. Best Regards, Mr. Ziebarth PreK-12 Principal

Seven of our Turtle Lake-Merced 6th graders participated in Surround the State in Song festival on Saturday. This festival happens simultaneously in seven North Dakota locations for students from 5th-7th grade. The purpose of the festival, is to get young students singing all over North Dakota and celebrate the beauty of music. These students put in extra time to learn the music and participated in a full day of singing!

TLM Families, Friendly reminder that Monday, October 14, flu vaccinations will be available at the school to students. Send your flu vaccination registration form to the school with your student if you would like to participate.

With a classmate in Florida and riding out Hurricane Milton this week, 5th grade switched up our schedule and did a fun lesson about hurricanes. We focused on Hurricane Helene and became amateur meteorologists for the week. First we looked at data from all 5 days of Helene’s path starting with where it started as a tropical depression in the Caribbean. We then categorized the hurricane using hourly data and wind speeds. We graphed the wind speeds over the 5 days. Finally, we tracked her path by plotting latitude and longitude coordinates on a map color coding the path based on wind speed (category)!  Thanks to Karson for always being such a great help! This lesson was fun but challenging😎. Questions to ask your student: 1. What was the highest category reached by Helene and where was she located when the wind speeds were the highest? 2. What gives hurricanes the energy to become as powerful as they are? 3. What happens to the wind speed when a hurricane makes landfall?

Kindergarten has been working on reading decodable readers for the last couple of weeks! Today, they could practice partner reading while using a fun pointer finger to help with tracking! Questions to ask: 1. What is your favorite part about learning to read? 2. What was our story about?

2nd grade gave their opinions on what they thought Mrs. Freeman should be for Halloween. Question to ask: What do you think your teachers should be for Halloween and why?

PreK has been learning all about fire safety. Today they got a visit from our Turtle Lake Fire Chief and one of the firetrucks. Students got to check out everything on the truck and even spray some water! Questions to ask: What should you do if your clothes catch fire? Stop Drop and Roll How many wheels were on the fire truck today? 6 What number do we call in an emergency? 911 What should we do if a building we are in is on fire? Get low and go!

Congratulations to Evi Markley, Ariel Gilseth, Brooklyn Tomlinson, and Inaia Way as they were selected to participate in the 46th annual Northwest Festival of Music at Minot State University! Evi, Ariel, and Brooklyn were selected for the choir. Inaia was selected for both the band and choir, but will be participating in the band. These girls will be traveling to Minot on November 1st and 2nd to sing and play with others selected from around the state.

Check out The Wave. Today's episode features Kenzee and Bridger talking about the Million Word Club. You can watch this week's episode at https://youtu.be/R7yCjihdS_A

Last Friday, 1st grade went to Papa's Pumpkin Patch! They had so much fun and got to bring home a pumpkin! Yesterday, they painted them! Questions to ask them: What was your favorite part? What colors did you paint your pumpkin?

October is College Application Month across the United States. During the school day on October 15th, the TL-M school will be hosting their application month event where all seniors are invited to apply to a ND college, university, or trade program of their choice for free. To help celebrate this year, we are asking all students to participate in a dream career dress up day. We can't wait to see all the dream careers of our students come to life!

TLM Families, Friendly reminder that Monday, October 14, flu vaccinations will be available at the school to students. Forms available in the office. Get signed up by Monday!

Thank you to the ladies from the Butte Lutheran Church for their generous donation to the school. All of us at the school appreciate these items!

The cross country meet in Underwood has been moved to Thursday, October 3rd in Underwood at the golf course! Races begin at 3:30 p.m. Following the high school races we will be having an elementary race for ages pre-k - 6th grade. This opportunity is open to all PreK-6th grade students: Pre-k - K will run 1/4 mile 1st- 3rd grade will run 1/2 mile 4th-6th grade will run 1 mile This will start approximately 5:15 p.m. depending on the timing of the high school race. We look forward to seeing you all supporting our runners from pre-k - 12th grade!!

The Community Memorial Hospital will host the Annual Hospital Supper Tuesday, October 1st from 5 PM - 7:30 PM in the Turtle Lake-Mercer School.

Turtle Lake - Mercer School is proud to share several updates from this summer! We replaced all the windows in the upper elementary and high school hallway, replaced the cafeteria entrance doors, replaced the doors to the hallway from the cafeteria with fire proof doors, new ceiling tile in the cafeteria, and added some new lobby furniture! With generous donations from TruCommunity, Turtle Lake American Legion, and Falkirk we redid the gym floor. Stop by and get a tour of you would like a closer look at our beautiful school!

Yesterday, third grade used goldfish crackers to represent arrays for multiplication by arranging them in rows and columns. Questions to ask a third grader: 1. If you have 3 rows of 4 how many do you have in total? 2. If you have 5x3 what would your array look like?