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PALESTINE ISD Friday, March 1, 2013

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Hello everyone,

Jason Marshall, Superintendent

The countdown has begun, there are 19 days until the first day of Spring on Wednesday, March

20th, and we have Spring Break to look forward to coming up the week of March 11-15th.

I saw my first Dogwood bloom of the season this week, just in time for the 75th Annual Dogwood

Trails Festival that begins the weekend of March 15th-17th and continues the next two weekends.

There will be lots of family activities to enjoy each weekend. For a complete list of events go to

www.texasdogwoodtrails.com.

The community is invited to attend an open house hosted by Palestine High School in the newly renovated Career and Technology Building on Tuesday, March 5th at 5:30 pm. Free hotdogs, drinks, and desserts will be

served in the Wildcat Café.

I enjoyed visiting with many of you this week at the

Lunches in the Lounge. Thank you for your participation

and for all that you do each week. Many thanks to our

PHS Culinary Arts Department for the wonderful lunches.

We know that education is the key to success, so we must

continue to work for what is right for all students to ensure

they receive every opportunity to reach their full potential.

Remember to contact our elected officials and share your

concerns for public education.

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The conference will focus on mobile devices in education, best practices to integrate in curriculum, management & infrastructure, and classroom ideas. The event is open to everyone from classroom teachers, administrators, to technology directors. If districts are in the planning stages of acquiring mobile devices or if they have had a 1:1 structure for a while or need ideas to bridge technol-ogy and curriculum, we would love your participation and collaboration. This is an excellent opportunity to net-work with area schools, and share ideas and transform our educational practices to reflect 21st century job skills.

Palestine ISD will be hosting an Educational Technology Conference entitled “iHeartDevices” on August 8, 2013 co-sponsored by

TCEA (Texas Computer Education Agency) and Apple.

Registration is open at tcea.org and more information can be found on the website iHeartDevices.weebly.com. For more information contact Shannon Leisure at extension 1270 or Kim Nelms at 1272.

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WILDCAT BASKETBALL

Congratulations to the Wildcat Basketball team. The team made it to the playoffs for the first time since the 2005-2006 season. They also garnered their first playoff victory in boys basketball since the 2004-2005 season.

Varsity Basketball Roster

#0: G. Clark

#3: Tony Butler

#4: CJ Barrett

#5 Shumauri Scott (graduating senior)

#10: Marquis Clark

#12: Ben Luckett

#20: D. McMorris

#23: Jarrell Owens

#24: Sheldon Watson

SOFTBALL

Girls Softball defeated Grapeland 8-7 on Monday night.

BASEBALL

Varsity Baseball lost at Madisonville on Tuesday 8-2.

SOCCER

Boys and Girls Soccer both defeated Diboll on Tuesday. At the end of the first round of district the boys are tied with Nacogdoches for first place and the girls are in 3rd behind Nacogdoches and Jacksonville!

TRACK

The Jr. High Track teams competed in their first meet of the year at Groesbeck. The 7th and 8th grade boys and the 8th grade girls won the track meet!

Congratulations to the PHS Boys and Girls Track teams. The boys won the Crockett Track Meet last night and the Girls finished in 2nd. The boys have now won 13 regular season track meets in a row.

See the following page for next week’s athletic schedule.

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ATHLETIC SCHEDULE

Monday, March 4th JV and Varsity Baseball @ Brownsboro

Tuesday March 5th Varsity Boys and Girls Soccer @ Nacogdoches

Tuesday, March 5th JV Boys and Girls Soccer here vs Nacogdoches

Tuesday, March 5th Softball @ Normangee

Thursday, March 7th JV Softball @ Athens Tournament

Thursday, March 7th - Saturday March 9th Varsity Baseball @ Franklin Tournament

Friday, March 8th High School Track @ Fairfield

Friday, March 8th Varsity Boys and Girls Soccer @ Jacksonville

Friday, March 8th JV Boys and Girls Soccer here vs Jacksonville

Friday, March 8th Softball here vs College Station

Friday, March 8th Tennis @ Jacksonville

Lance Angel, Athletic Director

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Congratulations!

March Students of the Month

Gabrielle Dantin and Caleb Lawson

March Jr. Rotarians

Emily Salas and Tyler Perkins

William Stewart, Principal

Jan Robertson, PHS Culinary Arts teacher and her students

would like to thank the East Texas Restaurant Association for selecting PHS to receive the first annual Gerald Case

Memorial Grant in memory of Gerald Case who owned Johnny Cases in Longview. The $1,000 grant will be used to provide experiences for students in the Culinary Arts Program.

Elizabeth Nunez doing homework after school in the library and enjoying the beanbag chairs donated by Adam Harding.

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Larissa Loveless, Principal Benchmark testing is going well. Students have shown great improvement in benchmark scores from last year. We are so proud of the junior high teachers and students for their hard work and determination.

Palestine Junior High School Track came away with big victories in Groesbeck our 7th grade boys won first place as well as our 8th grade girls and boys. 7th grade boys had 186 overall points. 8th grade had 169 team points.

7th won the 4 x100 and the 4 x200 relays.

8th won the 4 x100 and 4 x400 relays.

Manny Romero won 8th grade boys mile run

Irric Deyon won 8th grade 100 meter dash and long jump

Jhmonte Milton won 8th grade boys high jump

Allen Marquez won 8th grade Pole Vault

J. R. Davis won 7th grade 100 meter dash

Matthew Thompson won 1st and Israel Fa-tade won 2nd in the boys 2400 meter run

J.R. Davis won 7th grade long jump

Plans are being made using Skype with our Canadian partners for the Beasley project in Mars. Students and teachers are excited to share the art and science of the world famous exhibit with our district.

Students are utilizing our green space to hone their putting and chipping in golf each week. We are enjoying our new activity and appreciate the support of the district and community in making an idea a reality.

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Incentives Party: 4th grade students that did not have any tardies or office referrals for the 4th six weeks, enjoyed popcorn and a movie on Thursday.

4th Six Weeks Awards: Awards will be held next Wednesday, Thursday and Friday for students that maintained an A or A/B honor roll, perfect attendance and a star student will be chosen from each class. Humane Society: The Student Council and over 60 students volunteered at the Anderson County Humane Society this past Saturday. Students fed, bathed and played with the animals.

Brandon Jayroe, Principal Texas Public Schools Week:

Muffins for Moms Tuesday, March 5th

7:15-8:15 am Donuts for Dads

Wednesday, March 6th

7:15-8:15 am Goodies for Grandparents

Thursday, March 7th

7:15-8:15 am

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Stephen Cooksey, Principal

“Southside students truly are WILD about learning”

On Monday, we started our 5th six weeks grading period! Time sure does fly when you’re having fun. This week Southside worked hard gearing up for the upcoming STAAR test.

On Tuesday, our 3rd grade students were taking their last Math Benchmark for the year and on Wednesday, 3rd grade students took their last ELA Benchmark for the year. On Thursday, our 2nd grade students took their Math CBA 3.

All students put forth their very best effort!

Thank you to the Zambian Choir for their great performance!

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This week we celebrated Dr. Seuss with rhymes and poems and Dr. Seuss quotes. Our students are quite ready for Friday’s movie, The Lorax, and a lunch of green eggs and ham.

Barbara Dutton, Principal

Friday is Dr. Seuss’s birth-day party and Mrs. Hig-ginbotham will be here. Fun Fun Fun!!

On Monday and Tuesday, students listened to a safety presentation from The Crisis Center.

Tuesday was our cafeteria Soul Food Day. Thursday was our faculty cooks Soul Food luncheon – ele-gant dining at its finest.

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WASHINGTON EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER

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Rhonda Herrington, Principal

Black History Month Programs

Thank you goes out to Portia Rodgers Deckard, former PISD Teacher for coming to read to our students. She read the story “ The Coming

of Night”. Long, long ago, when the earth was new, the great river goddess Yemoya sent her daughter Aje to marry a handsome earth chief in the Land of Shining Day. At first Aje was happy, but soon she started to pine for the cool shadows of her mother's realm. So her husband asked Crocodile and Hippopotamus to bring Aje a sackful of Night. As they carried it back, the animals heard strange noises coming from the sack - and curiosity finally got the better of them...James Riordan's retelling of a Yoruba tale, gives an enchanting explanation of the coming of night to our world. Ms. Deckard also read a story called “What Does the President Do?”

The PHS Varsity Choir ended our Black History Month Activities with lots of songs and Mrs. Couch reading “Ragtime Tumpie” to our students The students had a fun time waving their hands and shouting Raz-ma-taz

when it was time to turn the page. The story was about Tumpie, a young black girl who will later become famous as the dancer Josephine Baker. She longs to find the opportunity to dance amid the poverty and vivacious street life

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The Operations Department working to complete new shot put area near Palestine Junior High.