National Recognition Products visited TL-M School today. They met with the sophomores, juniors, and seniors. The seniors picked out caps and gowns for graduation ceremonies. The group was also presented with information about class rings and letterman jackets. Students that are interested took home information packets for ordering. Please complete order forms and bring back to school on or before December 1. If you have any questions please contact Mr. Ziebarth or Mrs. Buchholz.
Cootie Assembly Line! The fourth grade is learning about Henry Ford an his Model T assembly line. Questions to ask these students:
Why did an assembly line make it faster to produce cars?
What colors were available in the Model T?
Today fifth grade wrote “I Wish” poems. They are free verse poems that stated a wish they had for the world. Ask a fifth grade student what they wrote about!
School Picture Retake Day is next Monday, November 21. Flyers are going home with students this week. Order forms are in the school office or you can order your photos online at mylifetouch.com using school code EVT9SX2GT.
Good evening! Please sign up to help with concessions. All families of students in grades 5-12 who are involved in the music program or athletics/activities are asked to help with concessions. Money raised helps provide opportunities for all students involved.
You have two options 1) serve during at least one home basketball game or 2) provide baked goods for at least two home basketball games.
The first game is November 17th. Please sign up ASAP by clicking on the link below. Thank you in advance!
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/904094ba4ae22a3f49-concessions
Good evening TL-M families! There will be no school on Thursday, November 10th due to current conditions and forecast weather warnings for our school district. Also, we do not have school on Friday, November 11th in honor of Veteran's Day.
Stay safe and warm! We will see you back at school on Monday!
The 5th grade band students are taking charge! They are working on conducting in 2/4 time. Ask your student to conduct for you.
The 1st graders have been busy practicing rhythms in music with popsicle sticks. They created a four beat rhythm with their partner then performed it together. Ask these students to perform the rhythm they created.
Region 5 Volleyball Tournament. The Cougars will take on Washburn on Monday, November 7th in New Salem. Good luck Cougars!!🏐
Congratulations to Miss Butler who was the winner of another Fun Friday at TL-M! Today’s song was Take on Me by a-ha!
Thursday, November 10, 2022 there will be a Veterans Day Program at Turtle Lake Mercer School in the gymnasium at 2:30. The Turtle Lake American Legion Members have been invited as distinguished guests. We would also like to extend an invitation to any other veterans in our area that would like to attend. Cookies and coffee will be provided for veterans in attendance after the program.
Today in 3rd grade, they used tiles to make arrays to help us use the distributive property of multiplication. Students were given multiplication equations and had to create an array to represent the equation. Then they “chopped” the array into 2 smaller arrays. By writing new equations and then adding them together, we could see that the product for each equation was still the same!
Give your student a multiplication equation, within 40, and ask them to demonstrate how the distributive property works!
Tuesday is Pajama Day! We hope everyone has a fun and safe Halloween tonight. We will see you tomorrow in your PJs.
The K - 6 had their Costume Parade through the halls before they headed downtown to Trick-or-Treat on Main Street with all of our businesses!
Congratulations to Mrs. Laib on being the winner of the Candy Corn Guessing Jar! Mrs. Laib had a guess of 213 candy corn and the actual number was 214.
Happy Halloween from TL-M! Can you find Waldo in the picture?
Happy Halloween! Thank you to McLean County Sheriff’s Department for being here this morning to hand out candy!
Fridays 5th and final trivia question for Red Ribbon week was name three signs of an overdose. There are a wide variety of substances that can cause an overdose including alcohol, opioids, benzodiazepines, and stimulants. When overdosing, signs that can be observable by others include vomiting, blacking out, passing out or nodding off, cold or clammy skin, slurred speech, lack of muscle coordination, seizures, slow or irregular breaths, and low body temperature. If you are ever around somebody overdosing, call 911 immediately. North Dakota has a Good Samaritan Law that protects friends, family members, and bystanders present during an overdose. This law provides protection from prosecution for ingestion or possession of a substance or paraphernalia for up to three people, including the individual overdosing.
There were 32 students who submitted answers and all answers submitted were correct! Not all students who submitted answers are pictured. Our final grand prize winner was Griffin Kraft! Congratulations, Griffin!
Thursday’s Red Ribbon week trivia question was what two substances account for the majority of preventable deaths in the United States?
The answer is alcohol and tobacco! In the United States, alcohol and tobacco are responsible for the majority of preventable deaths annually. Alcohol related deaths total more than 140,000 people each year while tobacco related deaths account for more than 480,000. Oftentimes, people assume that illegal drugs may be the most dangerous. Yet, because of their general acceptability and harmful effects, these two legal substances are actually the most deadly.
Each day there have been more answers submitted for the trivia question and today was no exception! 27 JH and HS students submitted answers with 5 guessing correctly! Those that guessed correct were Colbi Holtan, Charlie Sparrow, Emma Fischer, Kensley Ruffo, and Cambree Schlafmann. From these correct submissions our grand prize winner was Charlie! Congratulations!
Monday is Halloween. Our students in grades K-6 are looking forward to trick-or-treating downtown again this year. Students will leave the school at 1:00 PM to walk to the hospital and then they will head to Main Street. Thank you to all the local businesses who participate in this fun holiday for our students!
