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PALESTINE ISD

Friday, April 19, 2013

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Hello everyone,

Jason Marshall, Superintendent

Palestine ISD students participated in the Anderson County Live-stock Show this week. We had several students receive recogni-tion. Even our Washington Early Childhood students had a great time and got to pet the animals.

Palestine High School hosted the Area Track Meet at Wildcat Stadium on Wednesday. The Palestine boys won the meet mak-ing them the Area Champions. PHS will have many boys and girls advancing to the Regional Meet in Humble next week.

The Palestine ISD Board of Trustees will hold an Election to elect three trustees for Places 3, 4, and 5 on Saturday, May 11, 2013 from 7:00 am to 7:00 pm. Early Voting will be held at the Palestine ISD Administrative Offices located at 1007 East Park Avenue from Monday, April 29 until Tuesday, May 7. On April 29-May 3 hours will be 8:00 am until 4:00 pm. On Monday & Tuesday, May 6-7, the hours will be extended to 5:30 pm.

Palestine ISD candidates for school board participated in the Anderson County Political Forum last week. The meeting went well with candidates being allowed to express their vision for PISD.

Our Employee Service Awards Banquet will be held at the Palestine High School Auditorium on Tuesday, May 21 from 6:00 to 8:00 pm. Service Awards will be presented at 6:00 pm with a dinner to follow in the PHS Cafeteria at 7:00 pm. For those who attend, this event will take the place of the workday on Saturday, June 8.

WILDCAT WEEKLY

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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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Lance Angel, Athletic Director

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AREA TRACK RESULTS Congratulations to the Boys and Girls Track Teams!

Girls Track Qualifiers for the

Regional Meet

in Humble, Tx. next week

Roykayah Beavers

Dejah Gunnels

Breia Darden

Danielle Harroff

Breanna Jackson

Stacia Johnson

Arion Sandifer

Astrid Sandival

Jessica King

Gabriella Steel Others that scored points at the Area Meet

Jose Romero – 5th in the 110 Hurdles, 5th in the 300 Hurdles

Denis Quincin – 5th in the 3200

Walter Sheridan – 6th in the Discus

Boys Track Qualifiers for the Regional Track Meet

Jonnie Dean – 1st in Triple Jump, 2nd in the 400, 1st 800 Relay, 4th 1600 Relay

Ivory Brown – 3rd 400 Relay, 1st 800 Relay, 4th 1600 Relay

Jadarius Beasley – 1st in the 200, 3rd 400 Relay, 1st 800 Relay

Marcus Robinson – 1st in the High Jump, 4th 1600 Relay

Paul Barksdale – 2nd in the 100, 1st 800 Relay, 3rd 400 Relay

Tyler Bernard – 1st in the 3200, 1st in the 1600

Mason Munoz – 3rd in the 1600, 4th in the 800

Billy James – 1st in the Long Jump

Jordan Antony – 3rd in the 300 Hurdles

Marquis Clark – 3rd in the 400 Relay, 4th in the 1600 Relay

Walter Sheridan – 3rd in the Shot Put

Tony Butler – 4th in the High Jump

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Lance Angel, Athletic Director

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ATHLETIC SCHEDULE

Friday, April 19th JV/V Baseball @ Groesbeck, 4:30/7:00 pm

Tuesday, April 23rd JV/V Baseball vs Mexia @ Home 4:30/7:00 pm (Senior Night)

Friday, April 26th JV/V Baseball @ Fairfield, 4:30/7:00 pm (Last District Game)

Fri-Sat, April 26th - 27th Region 3 1A Division 1 Track Meet @ Wildcat Stadium

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PHS News -

PHS has been busy this week. Keith Davis, former NFL player spoke to our students with some great words of encouragement.

Our FCA group had “See you at the Pole” on Wednesday morning at 7:15 am. They cut our hearts with the words “Somebody Loves You” on them and placed them on every desk in the build-ing.

Senior portraits including student pro-files have been posted in the main hall-way.

This week, the Wildcat Band traveled to UIL competition and the golf and tennis teams attended a Regional competition.

Ag students are showing animals and projects this week at the Anderson County Livestock Show.

The PHS Drama Department will give performances of “The Crucible” this Friday and Saturday evening at 7:00 pm in the PHS Auditorium. There will be no charge for admission. Come and enjoy the show!

William Stewart, Principal

Keith Davis with Coach Jackson

See you at the Pole

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William Stewart, Principal

Team members confer on a bonus question at the Academic Olympics.

Kathleen Brown sponsor and second place team at the Rotary Aca-demic Olympics on Wednesday. Captain Amber Magee and team

members Nathan McEwen, Willis Foley, Eli West, Caleb Lawson, Tyler Perkins, and Kody Harris.

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PJH News -

Palestine Junior High students have been working hard this final week before STAAR to meet the chal-lenges next week. Students have been using their class time as well as before and after school time to prepare. We are ready for the challenges next week.

Eighth grade students as well as parents are putting the final touches on our Eighth grade dance. We will hold our presentation of sweethearts in the new gym this Saturday, April 20 at 6:00 pm. Students continue to practice the waltz. They also have exhibited their creativity in designing and making their one of a kind mask this weekend. The junior high greatly appreciates the work of Mr. Williams and his students who created magnificent chandeliers from wood to decorate our dance.

Junior High Theater students performed this past weekend in the high school theater. They presented Virgil's Wedding. We appreciate all who went above and beyond to support our efforts. We are especial-ly appreciative of Mr. Cate and Mr. Stewart for allowing us the privilege to perform in this outstanding facility. Thanks to all who attended and our Chamber of Commerce and Palestine Main Street for pro-moting our event.

Junior High Tennis will travel to Bullard Monday for their first tennis tournament. We look forward to great competition and great victories.

The Junior High Band will travel to Sandy Lake for their spring competition. We anticipate outstanding performances from our young musicians.

Larissa Loveless, Principal

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Larissa Loveless, Principal

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“RockSTAAR Tutorials” Saturday, April 13th and April 20th are our RockSTAAR Saturday Tuto-rials from 8:30-11:30 am. These are lessons for students to receive last minute preparations for the STAAR tests. Transportation & snacks are provided. Thank you to all the teachers that signed up two of their Saturdays to help these students! LAB Mrs. Moore’s 5th Grade Social Studies did a lab on Weather-ing, Erosion, and Deposition during RockSTAAR tutorials last Sat-urday.

STAAR Pep Rally On Tuesday we had a FANTASTIC Pep Rally to pump up our students here at Story. Former NFL player Keith Davis from Winners, Inc. spoke to the students on pushing to-wards your big dreams and never settling for less. The PJHS cheerleaders and the PHS drum Line performed. We also had our staff perform the Harlem Shake. It was a great time for all.

Gifted & Talented GT classes presented their projects this week. The Fifth graders did projects on Slavery and Human Trafficking. There were dioramas, PowerPoint slideshows, fictional jour-nals, and stories. The Fourth graders projects reflected the balance between Personal Freedom and Public Responsibility. These deep subjects reflect our focus on thinking more deeply about issues instead of only on the surface.

Brandon Jayroe, Principal 12

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“Southside students truly are WILD about learning”

April 15-April 19

into its second week of the JEDI ACADEMY with our 3rd grade

students. All I can say is our students are definitely using the

FORCE!!

On Wednesday our 2nd grade students took their ELA CBA 4.

On Thursday our 2nd grade students took their Math CBA 4

This week has been tons of fun at Southside Elementary…

Jedi Academy, Manners Clinics, Dance Clinics, Cool Class

Competitions, etc. We truly are Wild About Learning!! Ste-

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On Tuesday of this week, Southside students were all smiles!! Lee Love-less Photography was on our campus taking class photos. We sure have some sharp looking students!

Ms. Merryman is doing a fantastic job with our manners clinics. This week our students were working on table settings and proper table etiquette.

Ms. Dorsett has her students hard at Work in Art creating banners and posters for the upcoming Jedi Academy

On Friday, several of our 2nd grade classes participated in a field trip to Corsicana to visit the Planetarium. The kids were super excited and loved the trip.

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Upcoming Events

On Wednesday and Thursday of next week, Kindergarten students will take a field trip to

the Tyler Zoo.

First Grade is invited to the Rotary Safety Town at the Palestine Mall on

Thursday, April 25 at 9:00 am, then to the park

for lunch and play!

Northside Weekly -

This week Mrs. Yarbrough's class visited the Tyler Zoo, Kindergarten and First Grade stu-dents took Benchmark Assessments.

Wednesday the Pionette Garden Club and Mrs. Ives' and Mrs. Glenn's classes planted trees and made bird feeders for an Arbor Day project.

Our G/T classes enjoyed an outdoor educa-tion project with Mr. Lamb.

Barbara Dutton, Principal

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WASHINGTON EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER

OUR VISIT TO THE LIVESTOCK SHOW

Not allowed back in the classroom!

Mrs. Garcia’s Class learning the difference between hens and roosters.

Mrs. Carrizales’ Class watching as the pigs take their morning stroll.

Lots of petting of animals.