Turtle Lake-Mercer

On January 11th, 2025, Turtle Lake-Mercer School will host Snowball from 9:00 PM - 11:00 PM. This event is open to students in grades 7-12 from Turtle Lake-Mercer, Underwood, and McClusky-Goodrich Schools.

Our Turtle Lake-Mercer app keeps getting better and better! Parents/guardians who have already created a Rooms account can now access new app features like chat and class streams via web and in the app. Download for Android https://bit.ly/39dmk4y Download for iPhone https://apple.co/37fgWLL

Congratulations to Bridger Martin! He is the first student to make it into the Million Word Club this year! "Today a reader, tomorrow a leader." – Margaret Fuller

Home Alone 2 for the elementary this afternoon!

Turtle Lake - Mercer will be 2 hours late on Thursday, December 19th. With the snow and blowing, roads are covered with some heavy drifting. We want to give everyone time to clean out and let our bus routes go out in the daylight. There will be no breakfast and no PreK. Staff report at 10:00, doors open at 10:00, class begins at 10:30.

Congratulations to the following students who completed the reindeer game and guessed all staff 100% . We put together a fun board of staff eyes on reindeer. Spreading Christmas Cheer!

The TL-M Honor Society is wrapping up their food drive, but there's still time to get nonperishable food items turned in! All food items will be donated to the Lord's Pantry. Tomorrow is the last day to bring items! The class with the most items wins a hot cocoa party!

Another generous donation of supplies for the TL-M Care Closet from Ms. Shammy! Thank you for thinking of the TL-M students!

4th grade Gummy Worm Scientific Method What is the scientific method?  Which liquid did you use to soak your worm?  What were the results?  

Today's Turtle Talk activity was decorating sugar cookies baked by the FACS department!

Students are welcomed to wear their PJs to school on Thursday, December 19.

Christmas break is upon us, and we at TLM wanted to send out a friendly reminder on dates. Friday, December 20, school will be dismissed at 1:00 pm. We will see you back on Thursday, January 2. We wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Yesterday some of our high schoolers help assemble bike for the All Kids Bike program. The kindergarteners will be learning to ride bike when we return for semester 2!

The 8th graders have been busy in the shop making bird houses! Be sure to ask the students about what tools and techniques they used.

Kindergarten along with some high school helpers made gingerbread houses today! Questions to ask: 1.How many graham cracker did you have to use to build your house? 2.What was your favorite candy to add to your house?

7th Grade FACS Class made breakfast bagel sandwiches in lab this week. They first made homemade bagels yesterday and then cooked egg, ham and cheese to add to the inside today. A couple of questions for these students are: How did you make the bagels? What ingredients did you use to make the bagels? What kitchen equipment did you use for this lab? What did you have on your sandwich? How did this lab go? Would you do this at home?

The FFA Pizza order came in today. People who ordered pizzas can expect to get a delivery from an FFA member soon. The FFA Fruit Order will arrive on the morning of Monday, December 16th. Pickup for fruit for FFA members will happen from 9:30 AM to 3:30 PM on Monday, December 16th.

Tonight is the night! Elementary program starts at 6:15 followed by the 7-12 program at 7:30. Come join the TL-M Music Department for an evening of Christmas cheer! See you there!

Today the PreK added their ornaments to the Christmas tree in the lobby! Stop by and check out all the ornaments made by classes!

On Dec 11th, our chapter members hit the road to max to compete at the District 2 LDE!!. Congratulations to all the members who competed! The results are as follows: Creed: Jameson- Silver Prepared Public Speaking: Remi Laib- Bronze Employment Skills: 3rd Place ! Mya Kittler- Gold Extemporaneous Public Speaking: Charlotte Wilson-Bronze Demonstration: Molly Wilson- Silver Greenhand Quiz: Team- Bronze Rhett Laib- Silver Griffin Kraft- Bronze Anna Hagen- Bronze Advanced Quiz: 3rd Place ! Team- Gold Cheyanne Schumann- Gold McKenna Faulkner- Gold Mya Kittler- Gold Remi Laib- Silver Kaden Lelm- Silver Conduct of Chapter Meetings: Team- Gold (State Qualified) Cooper Kittler- Gold (President of the day) Griffin Kraft- Bronze Rhett Laib- Gold Jaxon Wagner- Bronze Anna Hagen- Gold (Reporter of the Day) Royce Wardner- Gold (Sentinel of the Day) Parliamentary Procedure: 4th Place! Team- Silver Kaden Lelm- Silver McKenna Faulkner- Silver Austin Wall- Bronze Kaleb Lelm- Silver Mya Kittler- Silver Remi Laib- Silver The Meeting Conduct Team will compete at STATE in Bismarck on Jan 7th! It was a competitive day for the TLM FFA Chapter !