The TLMM Trojan boy’s basketball team will be playing in the Wilton-Wing Jamboree on April 9th in Wilton. Go Trojans!🏀
Mr. Ziebarth’s 5th Grade is reading Among the Hidden. Questions to ask:
1) Why does Luke have to hide?
2) What do you predict will happen in this story?
Kindergarten has been talking about living and nonliving things in our science unit! We talked about Plant life cycles and today our experiment will show how water moves through plants! We will come back Friday to see the outcome!
Things you can ask your student:
1- What do living things need to live?
2. What was your hypothesis during the celery experiment?
Third grade has been learning about motion, forces, and gravity in science for the past week. For the last few days, we’ve been working on building wheel systems and then observe how they travel down ramps. To continue our wheel system observations…today groups each built and tested different systems. As a team, they chose the wheel system they felt would go the furthest. Today the team of Silas, Annabell, and Brooklyn won by a few inches. Tomorrow teams will re-build systems based on their observations from today. They will modify, retest, and then we will race them again tomorrow. Ask your student about their observations and how they might modify their wheel systems for tomorrow’s race!
Spring is here! Fourth Grade “Splash Art”!
How did you make the water puddle?
How did you choose your boot design?
After-school tutoring is only Tuesday this week. There is no tutoring today or Thursday. Thank you
Seniors Amy and Ashley spent a day of their spring break in Garrison for their EMR class and stayed to volunteer for the Garrison Ambulance.
This week Mrs. Anderson’s PreK has been learning about space! Questions to ask:
1. How many planets are there? Can you name some of them?
2. What does the word orbit mean?
3. Does the moon shine with its own light?
Mrs. Laib’s 8th grade English class has been studying figurative language. Today, they drew out idioms and then did a gallery walk to try to guess what idiom their classmates drew. Questions to ask these students: What is an idiom? What are some examples of idioms? Then, have a contest to see who can list the most idioms!
Physical Science students have started constructing their Rube Goldberg Machines (more pictures and videos to come after they are completed). Some questions to ask these students about this project are:
1. What is a Rube Goldberg Machine?
2. What are the 6 different types of simple machines?
3. Which simple machines are you incorporating in your Rube Goldberg Machine?
4. What is the science definition of 'work'?
The Senior Career Math class had Guest Speakers, Mr. Bob Larson and Mrs. Kelly Wahl, from Tru Community Bank at the Turtle Lake Branch speak on credit scores, consumer loans, and the banking profession.
Questions to ask:
How do you get and maintain a good credit score?
Where do I check my credit report?
How do I fix errors if there are any on my credit report?
Thank you, Bob and Kelly, for coming in and sharing with our students!
Just a reminder that elementary boy’s basketball and elementary girl’s volleyball begin tomorrow after school for 5th and 6th graders! Volleyball will be in Turtle Lake and basketball will be in McClusky. Coaches Joi Anderson and Paul Buchholz will be taking the boys on a bus to McClusky for practice right after school and will be dropping boys off in Mercer at 5:30and Turtle Lake at 5:45. Volleyball will end at 5:00 in TL. Coaches will be sending home schedules for practices and games, these are subject to change. Please keep an eye on the rScheduler app for any game changes, a link can be found on our website under the Activities/Athletics tab.
Happy First Day of Spring!!! We hope everyone had a wonderful spring break, we are excited to see you back at school tomorrow! Please remember that doors open at 8:00 A.M. There are still puddles on the playground and precipitation is expected for Monday and Tuesday so please make sure to send snow/rain boots, snow pants, hats, gloves, and warm coats for recess! This was all sent home with students last week so we could get the hallway/cubby area cleaned really well. See you in the morning!☀️
Mr. Quintane’s US History students created a posterboard that demonstrated the major events of the 1920's in the United States. Students were tasked with researching the 5 major events and summarizing them into 5-6 sentences. Afterword, they were to print of pictures that help explain each of these major events in the United States during the 1920's. Questions to ask these students: What were 5 major events that occurred in the United States during the 1920's?
How do your photo's show the major events in the United States during the 1920's?
Math Department Pi Day (3.24) Activity Alert!
Seniors read Circumference and the Dragon of Pi to 3rd grade students.
Math students measured the distance around a circular object (circumference) and the distance across the circular object (diameter). Students calculated the value of Pi by dividing circumference by the diameter. Students also wrote about their Pi activity!
Students divided a real pie (thank you TL Main Street Market!) into three equal parts with .14 (1/7th) left over.
Questions to ask students: Explain what 3.14 means in terms of the diameter and circumference of a circle. Why is Pi Day celebrated on March 14th?
Happy Pi Day!!! Thank you, Turtle Lake Main Street Market for the fresh baked pies!!!
There will be no Tutoring after school this week. Enjoy the Spring Break!
The 6th graders are learning about density, volume, and mass! Yesterday, they completed different tasks to learn more about them. For one task, they modeled the density of different liquids and objects by layering them in a graduated cylinder. For another task, they used water displacement to measure the volume of irregular shaped objects.
Some questions to ask them:
1. What is the equation for finding density?
2. How do we use water displacement to find the volume of an object?
3. What will happen when you place liquids with different densities on top of each other?
Mr. Vasbinder’s 7th graders chose their own essay topics, wrote a persuasive essay, and created 4 minute presentations. Topics ranged from gene splicing to 4-day school weeks and everything in between.
Questions to ask these students: What was your topic? What were the 3 main points you made in your argument?
Mrs. Cullum’s 7th grade math class has been working on applying their knowledge of finding percent increase. This week they used their computers to find the average prices for certain items in 2022 and found the percent increase from 1956. Questions to ask: Which item had the greatest percent increase? What item had the greatest dollar amount increase? How do you calculate Percent of Increase?
