Chloe, Cambry and Sophie just went in to compete with their chapter service project at the FCCLA state conference!
Some of our MS kids participated in Day in the Ring 2023. Students were able to participate in conjunction with the Ellis County Youth Expo and show off different animals.
Palmer FCCLA is headed to STATE! These students will attend the FCCLA State Leadership Competition this weekend with more than 3500 other students with schools of all size classifications from across the state. Please wish them luck!
Baseball Site Change:
⚾️ Tonight's game scheduled to be played at Cedar Hill Newman has now been moved to Palmer. First pitch will be at 6 PM. Varsity Only
🥎 Lady Bulldog Softball is on the road at Cedar Hill Newman this afternoon. First pitch is at 4:30 PM. Varsity Only
Today was another great day at the Ellis County Youth Livestock Show!
Heifers started the day and our students took home some banners!
Sydney Stewart started us off with 1st place Simbrah, followed by JT Stewart getting first place with his Simbrah as well.
They met head to head in the breed drive and Sydney beat out her brother, but taking home both Grand and Reserve is a great feeling!
Kaylee Harper exhibited her Angus heifer with a stiff competitive class and placed 3rd!
Jenna Rhodes completed the heifer show by taking both 1st place and Reserve Breed honors with her Simmental heifer!
The steer show went well as well! While it didn't add any students to our portion of the sale list, several students were one place out from making sale and ALL exhibited well and we noticed measurable growth in the show ring!
JT Stewart placed 5th with his American Steer
Shania Rhodes placed 4th with her British Steer
Jenna Rhodes placed 5th with her European Steer
Tripp Harper placed 7th with his European Steer.
Saturday is the Sale of Champions starting promptly at noon! Please come and support your growing/ successful Palmer FFA!
PARENTS: Students in grades 5-7 need to complete their Course Requests for next year. Last week, we sent home an email with video instructions so you could see what the students were selecting for next school year. They need to have these submitted by MONDAY, APRIL 3! If students need any help, please have them see our counselor, Mr. Anderson.
FYI...we extended the deadline to Monday so Athletics can talk to students about their program and expectations.
🚨 🏆 ECYE Sale of Champions
Palmer Jr FFA/ FFA currently holds 10 sale spots in the Ellis County Youth Expo Sale of Champions on Saturday!
Come support these wonderful students and bid on or add on to the projects they've worked so hard perfecting all year!
The Steer show today could potentially put another 4 students in the sale! Wish them luck!
Today was pig show day at the Ellis County Youth Expo and all 13 of our exhibitors did AWESOME!
We may not have gotten as many sale holes as we would have liked, several of our students finished on "the bubble", just one shot out of the sale.
We were able to snag 2 sale spots by Casen Cook with his Duroc gilt and Aubri Aduddell with her Hamp gilt.
Casen Cook and Emma Spurlock were also called back for showmanship!
Heifers and Steers finish the week, tomorrow.
Corsicana Tiger Classic Golf Tournament
Golf at the Mildred Eagle Invitational
The Ellis County Youth Expo continues to be good to Palmer Jr/ FFA students this week!
Following the success of the Broiler show, we had 3/4 pens of market rabbits make sale and several breeding rabbits placed well in their classes! Congrats to Peyton New, Gracie Zhanel, Cole Spurlock, Amethyst Ivie, Reese Zhanel, Kaylee Cargil and Ian Smith!
Today, goats showed and Rosa Castillo was able to sneak a sale spot as well in a very deep, very tough middle weight class.
Tomorrow pigs show and we are ready to keep the motivation!
🥎 The Lady Bulldogs stayed undefeated in District play today with an 18-0 win over Trinity Leadership Cedar Hill.
The Lady Bulldogs will be back in action on Friday at Cedar Hill Newman to start the second round of District play.
Bulldog Baseball gets the win 12-0 in 4 innings over Cedar Hill Newman. They are now (3-0) in district play. They will wrap up the series Friday at Cedar Hill Newman. First pitch has been moved up to 4:30 PM.
Culinary students practiced advanced skills this week and made homemade tie dye cookies. They took a lot of patience and turned out great!
Parker Reese was nominated and selected to the 2022-2023 Texas Girls Coach Association 3A Academic All State Basketball Team. Congratulations Parker!
Results from Round 3 in the Best of Texas Accounting Contest:
Lissett Flores 1st Place 3A; 1st Place 12th Grade
Alondra Gomes 3rd Place 3A; 3rd Place 12th Grade
Congratulations ladies!
Last week two of our art students competed in the Creative Arts contest for the Ellis County Youth Expo
Emilee Cordes won "Best of Show" and "Division Champion"
Lexi Seeton won Reserve Division Champion and "Division Champion" for her pieces.
Congratulations to our talented artists!!
23-24 Colorguard Auditions are April 3rd-6th from 4:00-5:30. Audition packets are available in the HS and MS front offices. Any current 8th-11th grader may try-out.
Contact Emily Ramsey, Eramsey@palmer-isd.org, with any questions.
The UIL Academic Team competed in District 18-3A competition at Mildred High School on Friday 3/24/23. The kids did an amazing job representing Palmer and we walked away with several medalists. We will be competing in the speaking competition tomorrow at Eustace. We will know the overall team results following the speech and debate portion of the contest tomorrow.
Literary Criticism
2nd Place- Cutter Burrow (Regional qualifier)
3rd Place- Nate Foshee (Regional qualifier)
Team 1st Place- Cutter Burrow, Nate Foshee, Ryker Gorrell, and James Miller (Regional qualifier)
Overall Journalism Team- 1st Place
Headline Writing
3rd Place- Ryker Gorrell (Regional qualifier)
4th Place- Kaitlin McElhaney
Editorial Writing
1st Place- Arabelle Morgan (Regional qualifier)
4th Place- Maggie Partin
News Writing
1st Place- Penelope Morgan (Regional qualifier)
2nd- Arabelle Morgan (Regional qualifier)
Feature Writing
2nd Place- Ryker Gorrell (Regional qualifier)
Copy Editing
1st Place- Cutter Burrow (Regional qualifier)
2nd Place- Maggie Partin (Regional qualifier)
5th Place- Ryker Gorrell
Number Sense
1st Place- Juan Vera (Regional qualifier)
Team 1st Place- Juan Vera, Nate Foshee, Landan Munoz, and Katelyn Jack (Regional qualifier)
Calculator Applications
4th Place- Nate Foshee
6th Place- Landan Munoz
Mathematics
4th Place- Juan Vera
Team 2nd Place- Juan Vera, Pierson Brown, Nate Foshee, and Katelyn Jack
Current Issues and Events
6th Place- Aravis Anguiano
Accounting
1st Place- Lissett Flores (Regional qualifier)
2nd Place- Alondra Gomez (Regional qualifier)
3rd Place- Aravis Anguiano (Regional qualifier)
Team 1st Place- Lissett Flores, Alondra Gomez, and Aravis Anguiano (Regional qualifier)
Ready Writing
3rd Place- Arabelle Morgan (Regional qualifier)
5th Place- Vtalya Cominsky
Science
6th Place- Juan Vera
Computer Applications
1st Place- James Miller (Regional qualifier)
2nd Place- Katelyn Jack (Regional qualifier)
3rd Place- Olivia Jones (Regional qualifier)
Spelling and Vocabulary
1st Place- James Miller (Regional qualifier)
2nd Place- Clarissa Ramirez-Chavez (Regional qualifier)
Team 1st Place- James Miller, Clarissa Ramirez-Chavez, and Kaitlin McElhaney (Regional qualifier)
Regionals will be April 22nd at Blinn College in Brenham.