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.
To celebrate Reading Month in March, Turtle Lake-Mercer School will be hosting "Donuts with Adults" on Wednesday, March 12th from 8:00 AM to 8:20 AM. Come celebrate Reading Month by reading with your child while enjoying a donut.
Turtle Lake-Mercer School will be hosting the Scholastic Book Fair. From March 10th through the 19th, students and families will have time to browse and purchase books.
1st grade did a music unit on the musical work "Carnival of the Animals" by Camille Saint-Saens. The composition has separate pieces for different animals. We read a book that included a poem for each animal and then the 1st graders came up with movement that went with the music of each animal. Questions to ask your student: Who wrote the "Carnival of the Animals?" What animals were included in the "Carnival of the Animals?" Which animal had your favorite music?
State B Girls’ Basketball Shirt Order: https://cm-state.itemorder.com/shop/home/. Orders are due by MIDNIGHT on Sunday, March 2nd.
Congratulations to Maggie Kinn! She recently made it into the Million Word Club!
"Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home." - Anna Quindlen
Mrs. O'Shea's Physical Science has been learning about elements and their properties. Today they did a quick investigation to discover what's in cereal.
Questions to ask
What element did you identify that was attracted to your magnet?
Why is this element added to cereal?
What cereal had more of the element added to it, Rice Krispies or corn Chex?
In 3rd grade PE, Gretchen used her gymnastic experience to teach her classmates some new skills. Questions you could ask: What was your favorite new skill? Which one was the hardest?
At the Special Board Meeting on Wednesday, February 26th, the Turtle Lake-Mercer School Board approved a motion to submit the application for a 4-Day School Week Waiver to the North Dakota Department of Public Instruction (NDDPI). If approved by NDDPI, Turtle Lake-Mercer School will operate under the attached calendar for the 2025-2026 school year.
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After spending a week learning about figurative language, the third-grade students created their very own class book of idioms. Each student selected an idiom, researched its meaning, and illustrated it with a creative drawing.
Questions you can ask a third grader:
1. Can you explain an idiom you included in the class book and what it really means?
2. What are other types of figurative language you learned this week?
Every morning, 1st grade starts their day with a “positive pickle of the day.” In the spirit of kindness month, we decided to make our very own positive pickles!
Questions to ask 1st graders:
What does kindness mean to you?
Why do you think it is important to show kindness to yourself as well as to others?
Episode 11 of The Wave is published. McKenzie and Emry joined today to talk about some of the happenings in 5th grade band, music, and Social Studies. The video can be viewed at: https://youtu.be/F2o8uDzqwWc
Kindergarten played sentence headbands yesterday. Questions to ask: What was your favorite sentence?
