Turtle Lake-Mercer

Griffin Kraft placed 29th out 160 participants at the ND State Mathcounts competition. Way to Make It Count and represent TL-M School well!

Kindergarten had science experiment Friday! We made borax crystals and it took us two whole days! Some questions to ask: 1:What materials did we use? 2: Are the crystals liquids or solids?

Mark your calendars! The 61st Annual Masonic Scholarship Banquet will be held in Washburn on April 22nd, 2024. This is a banquet to honor students that have achieved excellence in the classroom. Mr. Ziebarth will be completing the list of students in grades 9-12 that will be eligible for the banquet early next week.

Congratulations to Emry Fiedler! She made it into the Million Word Club! "Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world." – Jeanette Winterson

Lifetouch Spring Pictures that were scheduled for today have been postponed. A new day will be scheduled in the near future.

Mrs. Lelm's 4th grade Circuits! Ask your students: What is a series circuit? What is a parallel circuit?  What is a schematic diagram and can you draw one?  

Thank you to Miss North Dakota, Sydney Helgeson! She visited Turtle Lake-Mercer School today and presented to all of our students on her platform Live United: Building Stronger Communities Together. The students got to ask questions after her presentation and she also sang Part of Your World from The Little Mermaid and The National Anthem for our 7-12 students!

REMINDER: Spring Picture Day is tomorrow, Thursday, March 21. Order forms were sent home with elementary students. Additional forms are available in the school office. Or see the attached instruction for ordering online. The school code is EVTSMFJ7Z.

Thank you to the TL-M Honor Society for providing supper for our teachers tonight during Parent-Teacher Conferences! The soups and salad were delicious!

Another huge "thank you" to the Turtle Lake American Legion for their $10,000 donation to the gym floor restoration project. This was a match to the donation made by TruCommunity Bank! Thank you, Turtle Lake American Legion for your generosity!

Several weeks ago, the North Dakota-based company, BeMoreColorful, donated a virtual reality headset to every public school in North Dakota so that every school could access their platform, CareerView XR. This platform allows students to complete virtual reality job shadows in over 70 different careers. BeMoreColorful's donation, coupled with a grant that was received, means that the TL-M school has 12 headsets students can use to access these career exploration opportunities! During conferences tomorrow night, please feel free to stop by the table Mrs. Slavik will have set up to test out this VR software for yourself or just ask questions about how it all works!

Mrs. Philbrick's 7th grade class is learning about natural selection and adaptations in Life Science. When you come in for conferences on Tuesday, keep an eye out for the camouflaged butterflies around the lobby and hallway by the office. See if you can find all 11 of them! Some questions you can ask these students are: What are adaptations? How are adaptations related to natural selection?

REMINDER: Parent-teacher conferences are tomorrow, Tuesday, March 19, 2024, from 1:30 to 7:30 PM . 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

Happy Spring Break! Just a few reminder for when we return on March 18th: Elementary volleyball starts practice in McClusky after school, coach Schneider will be taking a mini bus. Elementary boys' basketball will have practice in Turtle Lake after school. Baseball and softball also begin practice in Turtle Lake, these students must have a sports physical and pay the $40 activity fee to the school office. Have a great break!!

Ms. Gilseth's 1st grade visited RDO in Washburn today for Safety Day! Ask your student what their favorite station was.

The 7th Grade Math class did an activity on "Discovering Pi " in honor of March 14--Pi Day. questions: 1. Define Circumference of a Circle. 2. What is the numerical equivalent for Pi? 3. Why is March 14 Pi day?

TL-M students got to participate in a school-wide reading time in the gym today! Thank you to all the high school students that read to our younger students!

4th Grader, Emry Fiedler, is the new TLM Pi Champ. She memorized and recited 164 decimals of the irrational number Pi. The previous champion was Joey Cherry with 150 decimals in 2005 as a 7th grader. Miya Smalls and Kaia Anderson recited 100 decimals as seniors in 2020.

TL-M students participated in the Region 2 Academic Olympics on Friday, March 8th at Bottineau High School.

Mrs. Freeman's 2nd grade has been learning about graphs and reading data from graphs. Today they came up with their own survey and surveyed the kindergarteners. They also presented their data to their classmates. Questions to ask: 1. What was your survey question and your answer options? 2. What kind graph did you use to collect your data?