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A huge congratulations to these students on an amazing FCCLA state competition with about 3000 other students from across Texas! They worked so hard and represented Palmer High School so well amongst some very difficult competition this weekend. We could not be more proud of them! Chloe, Cambry and Sophie- 4th place out of 22 teams Libby and Alana- 4th place out of 23 teams Please help us congratulate them on an amazing weekend!

Libby and Alana are competing this morning at the FCCLA State Conference!

📣 Ellis County Youth Expo Update Tomorrow is THE day! The day so many students in Ellis County have worked hard for and only a few get to experience. Tomorrow is the Sale of Champions! Palmer FFA has 10 lots in the sale! Over double the amount last year! Come out and support these students and their accomplishments! Lunch starts at 11 Sale starts at noon! If you would like to bid you must be there earlier to register. Tori Dillon- Ag Mech (Saddle Rack) Ebin Headrick- Broiler pen Aubri Aduddell- Market Swine Casen Cook- Market Swine Rosa Castillo- Market Goat Peyton New- Market Rabbit Pen Cole Spurlock- Market Rabbit Pen Gracie Zhanel- Market Rabbjt Pen Emerson Robinson- Broiler Pens (Grand AND Reserve Champion)! *Not pictured, Gracie Zhanel (apologies I didn't have a picture)

⚾️ Bulldog Baseball completes the series sweep of Cedar Hill Newman tonight with an 11-0 win in 6 innings. They improve to (4-0) in district play. *We were the designated visiting team tonight The Bulldogs will be back in action tomorrow at Emory Rains. JV first pitch at 10 AM followed by the Varsity.

🥎 The Lady Bulldogs get the win over Cedar Hill Newman by forfeit tonight. They will be on the road at Life School Oak Cliff Tuesday night to continue district play.

Attention Palmer Elementary Families: Today is the last day to order a yearbook! This yearbook is hardback and includes activities from the entire year. The yearbook will arrive in September. Please order online today. We do not order extras. ¡Hoy es el último día para pedir un anuario! Este anuario es de tapa dura e incluye actividades de todo el año. El anuario llegará en septiembre. Por favor ordene en línea hoy. No pedimos extras. https://www.balfour.com/texas/palmer/palmer-elementary-school

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.