Turtle Lake-Mercer

The Turtle Lake Mercer School 2024-2025 yearbook has arrived! Stop in the office to pick up your yearbook. If you didn't order a year book, don't worry we have extra for sale. $40/yearbook

Tonight TLM Pep Club Advisor, Mrs. Voth, hosted Homecoming Pants Painting! It was fun to see all the creative designs! Looking forward to seeing all the CMC jeans on Friday night at the football game!

Aiden Hanson and Bridger Rittenbach joined The Wave today. Check out the show at: https://youtu.be/YuPj4C8dhPg
All episodes of The Wave are published on YouTube and also a link at the top of our school website.

Reminder: Turtle Lake-Mercer School Homecoming Coronation is at 2:45 today in the Ed Rath Auditorium at Turtle Lake-Mercer School. This event is open to the public. We look forward to seeing everyone with this celebration to start Homecoming Week.

Mrs. Schumann's 6th Grade students will be hosting their annual September 11th Remembrance gathering at the Turtle Lake Fire Hall on Thursday, September 11, 2025 from 1:30-2:30 PM. This is an open to the public event.

Underwood High School will be hosting the Central McLean Homecoming Dance from 9:00-11:30 PM following the Homecoming Football Game against Heart River on September 12th. The dance is open to students in grades 7 through 12.

Sharing a book study opportunity through the McLean County Extension Office for anyone interested.

TL-M Pep Club is sponsoring Homecoming Pants Painting in the school cafeteria on September 10th from 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM. Check out the flyer for more information.

Homecoming Coronation for Turtle Lake-Mercer School will be in the Ed Rath Auditorium on Monday, September 8th at 2:45 PM. Congratulations to Jacob Wolf, Aiden Hanson, Ty Makeeff, Bridger Rittenbach, Inaia Way, Brooklyn Tomlinson, and Cheyanne Schumann on being selected to the Homecoming Court. Jospehine Kinn and Orin Wright were selected to be the 1st Grade Attendants.

5th grade showed off their artistic side while working on their writing skills by creating “All About Me” posters. This is a 5th grade favorite and the class of 2033 was no exception. Max even made sure his poster matched the real-live version of himself😉. Questions to ask your student: What were the steps of creating the art portion of your poster? What was your favorite “all about you” topic to write about?

CMC Homecoming is next week! Here are the dress-up days for the week.

The Wave is back! The first episode of the 2025-2026 school year is published! Check out Turtle Lake-Mercer School's podcast at https://youtu.be/RF1nFZlidLc
In this episode Mr. Ziebarth and Mrs. Schlafmann talk about some good need-to-know information for families and community members of Turtle Lake-Mercer School.

We hope your first week back to school was GREAT! Here are a few items to check off your list.

Anything is "popsicle" with students like ours! All students got served a nice cool treat on this hot day. BIG shout out to our wonderful Superintendent, Mrs. Schlafmann, and Principal, Mr. Ziebarth for delivering the delicious and refreshing treats.

The TL-M Activity Boosters will be holding a meeting on Thursday, August 21st at 5:30 in the TL-M School lobby. We encourage all parents of 5th-12th graders to attend. The boosters support music and athletics! Hope to see you there!

A big THANK YOU to CHI Hospital for their generous donation of supplies and snacks!

A BIG thank you to Carla Alber from Brush Lake for your generous donation of supplies for our school. We greatly appreciate it!

Altru Health in cooperation with Vision Zero shared the attached information regarding student transportation safety. There are some great tips for increasing safety in all the ways students get to school.