To celebrate February being Career and Technical Education Month, Mercer School congratulates Kolten Stahel for his work with the Lazy Ace Saloon.
During our unit on Space, the Kindergarten spent 3 days building paper mache planets and painting them. We used our tablets to look at real pictures of the planets. Ms Holly made Pluto because she wishes it was still a planet!
To celebrate February being Career and Technical Education Month, Mercer School congratulates Anya Brandenburg for her work with Woodruff Hardware.
On February 12, Mercer High School toured BW Papersystems in Phillips. The 9th-12th grade toured and learned about their facility as well as different career paths available at BW Papersystems. February is CTE month so students enjoyed getting out and learning more about opportunities that are nearby.
First Graders kicked off a new writing unit based around National Parks by having a video call National Park Ranger Meghan. Park Ranger Meghan works at the Cane River Creole National Historical Park in Louisiana. She taught us about the differences between the 433 NPS sites. We also learned about about what we could do if we visited the park she worked at. Then to finish up, we learned about the NPS arrowhead symbol and created our own arrowhead symbols.
Our 100th day of school was also the day of our Valentine's Day party so we celebrated on the 102 day of school. Our families helped us count 100 of a snack and we brought them to school and shared with each other! Thank you to the families for helping the students with their counting skills!
To celebrate February being Career and Technical Education Month, Mercer School congratulates Aiden Galloway for his work with the Crafty Cup.
Congratulations to the Mercer Esports Team for qualifying for the State Tournament for Fortnite! The team finished in 6th place out of 25 teams, and the tournament is scheduled for February 25th. Good luck to the Esports Team!
To celebrate February being Career and Technical Education Month, Mercer School congratulates Bryelle Persons for her work with After School Program at Mercer School.
First, second and third graders ventured out to Minocqua Winter Park for a day of cross country skiing. They did AMAZING!
To celebrate February being Career and Technical Education Month, Mercer School congratulates Ben Joustra for his work with SS Sport.
Updated game times for basketball.
First Graders have been learning about the American Birkiebeiner ski race. Today they learned about the Norwegian legend that inspired the modern day ski race. Here they are reenacting skiing Prince Haakon to safety.
4-6 Graders had cross country ski lessons at Minocqua Winter Park. They did a great job skiing the trails. Thanks to the Mercer Education Foundation for providing funding for our bussing.
To celebrate February being Career and Technical Education Month, Mercer School congratulates Kaylee Powers fr her work with the Mercer Chamber of Commerce.
First Graders have been learning about weather during science time. Today they got to have a zoom meeting with a meteorologist from the National Weather Service. Meteorologist Kathryn Abbott taught the first graders about why we have weather, different types of weather and different types of careers at the NWS.
We found the gingerbread man! He has been running around the school since last Monday! He left us clues about what he was up to! He was in the library, he was in the science classroom, he was in the trophy case and we finally found him in the tech ed classroom! He was delicious!!!
During our unit on Fairy Tales, the students each brought something from home to try to save Humpty Dumpty when he fell off the wall! Ziva's bonnet did not save him; Isabelle's bubble wrap and box saved him; Lylah's bag of cotton balls saved him; T's pillow saved him; Kayleigh's bags and box saved him! Thank you to the parents for helping with this project!
There will be a 2-hour late start on Monday, January 26, due to the cold weather.
Due to extreme weather conditions, there will be no school or after-school activities on Friday, January 23. Middle School Volleyball practice is cancelled for Thursday, January 22. The High School Boys Basketball game scheduled for Friday, January 23, against Washburn has been rescheduled for Tuesday, February 17, at 7:00 pm. The Middle School Volleyball game on Friday, January 23, will be rescheduled.
