Middle School -

No MS Friday school this week.

Wednesday was pig day at the expo and we are proud of our students yet again! Palmer FFA/ Jr. FFA students worked well together, as a team, getting pigs prepped and ready for the show ring better than ever before and in the ring, it showed! 4 Palmer FFA Students made sale with their projects! Swine Exhibitors include: Lainey Orr Aubri Aduddell Kooper Patino Hagen Patino Koltyn Nelson Kylie Nelson Silas Jordan Cole Spurlock Way to go pig exhibitors! It was a fun day!

A big congratulations to our breeding rabbit exhibitors! Highlights of the show include one breed champion and one reserve breed champion.

A big congratulations to our breeding rabbit exhibitors! Highlights of the show include one breed champion and one reserve breed champion.

Our Palmer FFA and Jr. FFA members are still trucking at the Ellis County Youth Expo! Yesterday was another busy day with the broiler and goat show! 4 Palmer students competed in the goat show and all did well getting their animals set and shown for the judge. Although only 1 student stuck a sale spot, all 4 did amazingly well, especially since it was 3 out of 4 of their first county showing goats! Congrats to Reese Wright on placing 3rd and getting a sale spot! Goat exhibitors include: Rosa Castillo Laney McCarty Lucy McCarty Reese Wright

Palmer ISD Parents/Guardians:
You are invited to review instructional materials up for adoption for Secondary Mathematics.

Courses include:
Grades 6 - 8 Math
Algebra I
Geometry
Algebra 2

There are two opportunities to do so:
Tuesday, April 7
9:00 AM - 11:00AM
Thursday, April 9
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Both will take place at the Palmer ISD Administration Building, 303 Bulldog Way, Palmer, TX 75152.

If you have any questions, please call (972) 449-3389.

Mrs. Reid's classes participated in a figurative language egg hunt.

STAAR testing will be here soon! Make sure your kiddos have snacks and a charged chromebook.

Over the past three weeks, 5th grade ELA students have been competing in STAAR Madness! The top winners from Mrs. Myers’ class and Mrs. Osborne’s class faced off in the final competition. Great job to all of 5th grade for working hard and getting ready to show what they know in just a few short days!

These young men exhibited their deer stand project in the marketplace division last week at the Ellis County Livestock show and rodeo ag mechanics show. Students in the marketplace division are competing for a chance at earning a spot in the Sale of Champions and these guys were able to get one of those spots by earning Division champion in the wildlife division. Please congratulate them on a job well done.

Around 80 Palmer FFA/ Jr. FFA Students will be exhibiting their projects at the Ellis County Youth Expo this year! The Expo starts Monday 3/23 and extends to Saturday 4/4! Please support these students by wishing them luck, going to watch them show or in the Sale of Champions 4/4! 3/23- Ag Mechanics Show 3/30- Breeding/ Market Rabbits and Build-Off 3/31- Market Goats 4/1- Market Swine 4/2- Breeding Heifers and Market Steers 4/3- A Day in the Ring 4/4- Sale of Champions

The students are excited and the Ag Teachers are already exhausted, but they'd sure enjoy seeing support from the Palmer community this week for the last week of the Ellis County Youth Expo! Today kicks off the animal exhibitions and yet another 40+ students exhibiting animal projects including breeding rabbits, market rabbits, broilers, market goats, market swine and steers/ heifers throughout the week! Ag Mech Build-Off is also going on today! 4 HS Ag Mechanics students will be working together to complete a full grill build in 8 hours! Come out and see us!

Last Monday we had around 40 ag mechanics students exhibit their projects at the Ellis County Livestock show and Rodeo. Students did a great job presenting their projects and had 19 blue ribbon projects. The following projects were exhibited in the non sale portion of the ag mech show. We had one group that was awarded the Division Champion for the shop equipment division with their shop table

Palmer ISD began participating in the Teacher Incentive Allotment (TIA) in 2023. TIA is a Texas Education Agency program that recognizes teacher effectiveness. After collecting and submitting 2024-2025 data, Palmer ISD is proud to announce the inaugural group of 24 teachers receiving TIA designations!
#PalmerProud

Here is the menu for March 30 - April 2!

Students in Ms. Chapman's 8th grade AFNR class have been learning about soil properties this week. Today they were able to use what they've learned about soil horizons to create an edible soil layers cup.

💙💛FFA Banquet Info 🥇 🏆
Palmer FFA Banquet will be held at the MS Cafe at 6:30pm on 4/28/26!
Please see the flyer below to RSVP! Tickets will be paid for at the door, and paid attendees will be entered into a raffle for a custom fire pit at the end of the evening!

Please email kvines@palmer-isd.org, kchapman@palmer-isd.org or mmolan@palmer-isd.org with questions!

‼️ Also, don't forget to add pictures to the drive folder Mrs. Vines emailed out this week!

Prize day is the best!

8th grade parent meeting this Thursday 3/26 at 6pm at the HS cafe.