Wildcat Weekly

Palestine Independent School District December 8, 2017 Volume 6: Issue 12

Athletics 2

Campus Happenings 3-7

TACE 8-11

Looking Forward 12

Inside this issue:

DISTRICT EVENTS

Monday, December 11 5:00p Junior High Girls & Boys

Basketball vs. Athens

6:30p PISD Choir Christmas Concert

Tuesday, December 12 5:00p Girls JV/V Basketball vs. Center

(Home) BOP Night

6:30p PISD Band Christmas Concert

Friday, December 15 5:00p Girls JV/V Basketball vs. Diboll

(Home) Elem. BOP Night

5:30p Boys Soccer Alumni Scrimmage

7:30p Boys 9th/JV/V Basketball

vs. Sabine (Home)

Saturday, December 16 8:00a PHS TSI Testing

12:00p Girls V Soccer Alumni Game

4:30-7p Wildcat Golf Course

Country Christmas

Christmas Holidays Friday, December 22 -

Friday, January 5

Students return to school on Jan 8

Staff Development Day on Jan 5

from the Superintendent: Jason Marshall

Welcome December!

I hope everyone is enjoying the little bit of winter weather that arrived this week just in time for the Christmas season and all the fun activities during this

“most wonderful time of the year”.

The Palestine High School Band and Choir will entertain with musical celebrations of Christmas next week at Palestine High School in the Auditorium. The Choir Christmas Concert will be held on Monday, December 11th at 6:30 pm. The Band Christmas Concert will follow on

Tuesday, December 12th at 6:30 pm.

The Wildcat Golf Course kicked off their Country Christmas this past Saturday and the event will continue the next two Saturdays, December 9th and 16th from 4:30-7:00 pm. Come visit the Wildcat Golf Course and relax with a hayride and some old fashioned

country fun.

The Wildcat Band & Kik Kat Drill Team represented Palestine ISD in the Christmas Parade of Lights

in downtown Palestine on Saturday, December 2nd

PISD Administrators enjoyed distributing incentive checks to staff this week.

Thank you PISD Board of Trustees!

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Welcome back, Wildcat fans! We are excited to kick off the new school year with a full athletic calendar. Our student

athletes have worked hard in preparation for the new season. Cross Country is ready for their first meet in Union

Grove on Saturday, Volleyball is in full swing with the varsity team competing in the Groesbeck tournament today and

tomorrow, Team Tennis hosted their first home match of the season on Thursday, and varsity football will kick off

their season on September 1st versus Mabank. We encourage our fans to come out and support all our fall sports.

As a reminder, please don’t forget Meet the Wildcats, Monday, August 28th, 7:00 p.m., Wildcat Gym! We look forward

to introducing our football, cross country, fall tennis, and volleyball teams, as well as student trainers, band

members, cheerleaders and Kik Kats. Representatives from the PISD Athletic Booster Club will be available, also, to

answer any questions you may have about memberships and volunteer opportunities.

For up to date information, schedules, and upcoming events, please visit the Athletic webpage at

www.palestineschools.org, Departments, Athletics.

WE WILL PUT FOOTBALL SCRIMMAGE INFO HERE….COACH ROBINSON IS WORKING ON THAT…..

In Volleyball action:

The Ladycats played Pittsburg at home last Friday night in their first home game of the season. JVB lost a tough

match in 3 ( 25-13, 18-25, 11-15). JVA defeated Pittsburg (25-22, 22-25, 25-23)! The Varsity girls lost in three (20-25, 17-

25, 17-25). Faith Newman picked up 22 digs. McKenzie King had 22 assists. Destiny Mathews had 10 kills while Shayla

Arthur added 8 kills. The Ladycats will resume play in the Eustace tournament playing at 9 am vs. Mabank in the

Championship bracket.

The Ladycats hosted Alba-Golden Tuesday night. The JVB team fought hard in a 3 game match, but came up short (25

-20, 21-25, 23-25). Our JVA team won in exciting fashion coming from behind in the 3rd set to win (15-25, 25-16, 25-20)!

Our varsity girls showed heart and fight in their 5 game match with Alba-Golden. We came up short, but very proud of

the effort the girls gave (26-24, 15-25, 25-23, 22-25, 12-15). We will be playing in the Groesbeck tournament this Friday

and Saturday!

Go Wildcats Athletic Director: Robby Clark

Palestine Athletics

Boys Basketball: Palestine Varsity Boys vs Crockett

Won 68-54

"I was proud of our guys and how they came out and played.

Crockett is a very good team but we hit our free throws and executed all night to get the win. We still continue to improve and I am thrilled

as to how we are playing as a team."

Palestine JV Boys vs Crockett Won 56-24

The JV Boys played very well and were in control of this game rom the jump. They also continue to improve and play some

very good basketball.

Varsity will be competing in the Fairfield Tournament Thursday, Friday and Saturday and JV will be playing in our own tourney

here in Palestine Thursday and Saturday.

Coach Johnson

Girls Basketball

Varsity defeated Corsicana 56-35 JV defeated Corsicana 20-26

Freshman lost to Corsicana 22-33

Upcoming Basketball:

Varsity will travel to the East Texas Shootout Tournament in Brownsboro this Thur-Sat.

JV will play Slocum on Saturday @ 10am.

Program record:

(#25)Varsity (11-2) JV (11-2)

9th (9-3)

Coach Chapa

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Palestine High School Principal: Dr. William Stewart

Edgar making a Christmas wreath in Miss Sharp’s Art class

Adrian and Omar learning about chemicals

in Mrs. Brown’s class

Mrs. Dickson’s FFA students are learning

parliamentary procedures.

In Mrs. Armstrong’s class, students are

learning grammar rules.

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A.M. Story Intermediate

Principal: Jaime Clark

2nd

Six weeks Book

“Stand Tall Molly Lou Melon”

Bulletin Board Contest

Annual Gobbler Gallop

Thanksgiving Luncheon

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Southside Elementary Principal: Grace Mancilla

Ashton Cook working

hard on the computer

with NewsELA

Ms. Davis’s class working hard in their Daily 5 rotations in small groups.

Mrs. Anderson’s

Gingerbread House Mrs. Catala’s class posing

in front of Taller de Santa

Mrs. Keisling’s class incorporating

math into their lesson

by using the UNO game

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Northside Primary Principal: Barbara Dutton

Building in the Science Lab

Northside staff were excited to get their incentive checks Monday. Thanks to Mr. Marshall and

Mrs. Jones for being the bearers of such wonderful gifts.

One sign Christmas is on the way...

When sleds come down the hallway!

Northside Readers love to earn their AR shirts.

Library time is very important on our cam-pus.

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Washington E.C.C. Principal: Sheila Bradley

Academically Ready to Strive

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PALESTINE ISD TACE

Northside Primary TACE Center

TACE Students help with Veterans' Day preparations

Thank you veterans for all you've done

and continue to do for our country.

TACE Family Fall Craft Night

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PALESTINE ISD TACE

Southside Elementary TACE Center

Finding ways to be thankful

Morning TACE

Turkey cookies with Natalie

from Palestine Painted Cookie

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PALESTINE ISD TACE

A.M. Story Intermediate TACE STEM Center

Story Intermediate TACE is partnering with the YMCA. Our students participate in Born to Move and Drums Alive.

These activities are designed to improve student’s agility, balance, and endurance. Students are engaged and

having a great time while developing healthy habits.

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PALESTINE ISD TACE

Palestine High School TACE College and Career Readiness Center

Art Club making

altered books

Foodie Club making burgers

Science homework help

Robotics and Drones

Students enjoying Arcade Hour

after completing homework

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Looking Forward

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

3 2:00p Anderson County Christmas Contata - PHS Audi-torium

4 5:00p Junior High

Basketball - Girls

(Away) Boys (Home)

vs. Fairfield

5 5:00p Girls 9th/JV/V Basketball @ Corsicana

5:00p Boys 9th/JV/V Basketball vs. Crockett (Home)

6 7

Girls V Basketball

East Texas Shootout

@ Brownsboro

Boys 9th/JV Basketball

Tourney @ Palestine

8 Girls V Basketball

East Texas Shootout

@ Brownsboro

Boys V Basketball

Fairfield Tourna-

ment

9 ACT Test @ PHS

8:00a PHS TSI Testing

Girls Basketball East Texas Shootout @ Brownsboro

Boys 9th/JV Basket-ball Tourney @ Palestine

Boys V Basketball Fairfield Tournament

4:30-7p Wildcat Golf Course Country Christmas

10 11 5:00p Junior High Girls & Boys Basket-ball vs. Athens

6:30p PISD Choir Christmas Concert

12 5:00p Girls JV/V Basketball vs. Center (Home) BOP Night

6:30p PISD Band Christmas Concert

13 14 15 5:00p Girls JV/V Basketball vs. Diboll (Home) Elem. BOP Night

5:30p Boys Soccer Alumni Scrimmage

7:30p Boys 9th/JV/V Basketball vs. Sabine (Home)

8th Grade Dance in

JH Cafeteria

16 8:00a PHS TSI Testing

12:00p Girls V Soccer Alumni Game

4:30-7p Wildcat Golf Course Country Christmas

17 18 5:00p Girls JV/V Basketball vs. Whitehouse (Away)

6:00p Regular Board

Meeting

19 5:00p Boys 9th/JV/V Basketball vs. Whitehouse (Away)

20 21 End 3rd Six Weeks

Early Release

22 Christmas Holidays (Dec 22-Jan 4/Staff return Jan 5/Students return Jan 8)

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25 26 27

28 Boys V Basketball @

Crockett Tournament

Girls V Basketball

Burnet Tournament

11:00a Girls V Soccer

vs. Henderson/Nac @

Nacogdoches

12:00p Girls JV2 Soc-

cer @ New Summer-

field

29 Boys V Basketball @

Crockett Tourna-

ment

Girls V Basketball

Burnet Tournament

10:00a Boys Soccer

@ Lufkin

30 Boys V Basketball @

Crockett Tourna-

ment

Dec 2017