Spurger ISD

🤠🌾 HOWDY, Y’ALL! IT’S TEXAS FARM FRESH CHALLENGE TIME! 🌾🤠

🥒🍅 Fresh from Texas farms to our school lunch line! 🇨🇱 Everything’s bigger in Texas, including our love for fresh, local goodness! 💚🌟

🔥 GRAB-N-GO LINEUP 🔥
🤠 BBQ from Yellow Rose Cattle Ranch & Meat Market 🔥
🥔 Sun Chips to crunch along with your BBQ!
🥪 OR grab a Smucker’s Uncrustable with 🐠 Goldfish crackers!

🥗 Y’ALL COME ON TO THE SELF-SERVE SALAD BAR! 🥗
Fresh Texas goodness is waiting for you! 🌱💚

🥬 Texas Romaine Lettuce
🥒 Texas English Cucumbers
🥒 Zucchini Squash
🍅 Sweet Cherry Tomatoes
🥕 Baby Carrots
🌶️ Pickled Okra
🤠 And other fresh veggie favorites, too!

🥗 Top it off with some creamy Ranch Dressing! Yeehaw! 🤠

🍑 SWEET TREATS & GOOD EATS! 🍇
🍇 Flavored Raisins
🍑 Frozen Peach Passion Cups — a peachy little taste of sunshine! ☀️

🥛 CHOICE OF TEXAS-MADE MILK! 🐄
Proudly serving up goodness with Hiland Dairy! 🤠🥛

🌟 OUR TEXAS FARM FRESH PARTNERS 🌟

🚜 🌾 True Harvest Farm — Belton, Texas
🥛 🤠 Hiland Dairy — Texas-owned pride!
🥩 🔥 Yellow Rose Cattle Ranch & Meat Market Winnie Texas— bringing the BBQ goodness!

❤️💙 We’re proud to support local agriculture, celebrate Texas-grown goodness, and teach our students that fresh food can be fun, colorful, and delicious!

🌱 EAT FRESH. BUY LOCAL. THINK TEXAS! 🌱

🤠 Who’s ready to saddle up and take the Texas Farm Fresh Challenge? 🥗🍅🥒

#TexasFarmFreshChallenge
#TexasFarmFresh
#ServeLocal
#TexasGrown
#TexasOwned
#HilandDairy
#TrueHarvestFarm
#YellowRoseCattleRanch
#SchoolNutrition
#FreshIsFun
#YeehawYall 🤠🌾

🌾🐄🚜 4th Grade Takes on Farm Bureau Ag Day! 🚜🐓🌽

Our Spurger Elementary 4th graders had a great time attending Farm Bureau Ag Day at the Tyler County Fair! ❤️🤍🏴‍☠️

Our students enjoyed a fun day of learning about agriculture and just how important farming and ranching are to our everyday lives! We love when our Pirates get the opportunity to step outside the classroom and learn through hands-on experiences!

A big THANK YOU to Farm Bureau and everyone who helped make this fun and educational day possible for our students! ❤️

#SpurgerPirates #PiratePride #FarmBureauAgDay #TylerCountyFair

❤️🏴‍☠️ Happy Instructional Coaches Appreciation Month! 🏴‍☠️❤️

October is a time to celebrate our wonderful instructional coaches, Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Bell! ❤️

These two amazing ladies do so much behind the scenes to support our teachers and help our students succeed! From sharing ideas and offering guidance to always being there with a helping hand, they make a difference in our school every single day!

We are so thankful for their hard work, dedication, and the love they pour into our Pirate family!

Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Bell, we appreciate you both more than you know! Thank you for all that you do to make Spurger Elementary a great place to learn and grow! ❤️🤍🏴‍☠️

#InstructionalCoachesAppreciationMonth #SpurgerPirates #PiratePride

Spurger ISD would like to thank everyone at First Baptist Church in Spurger for the delicious lasagna lunch that they prepared for our entire staff! We really appreciate all of Pat Zachary's team's efforts along with Pastor Cole for making it all happen!

🎃🥛 A Little Taste of Fall! 🍂

Today, our Junior High and High School students had the opportunity to participate in a taste test of Hiland Dairy’s NEW Pumpkin Spice flavored milk! 🎃

The students who participated gave it a big thumbs-up and LOVED IT! 😍🥛

We love giving our students fun opportunities to try something new! Thank you, Hiland Dairy! 🍂🧡

#PumpkinSpice #HilandDairy #SchoolCommunity #Texas Farms #Serve Local

School Nutrition Pros

🌟🌾 Tuesday’s Farm Fresh Challenge! 🌾🌟

🥳 We’re bringing fresh, local flavor to the table! Today’s lunch was packed with delicious favorites and Texas-grown goodness! 🤠❤️

🍽️ Today’s Menu: 🌯 Chicken & Cheese Quesadillas
🍚 Homemade Spanish Rice made with Doguet’s Rice
🫘 Refried Beans
🧀 Cheese Queso & Red Gold Salsa
🥗 Fresh Garden Salad featuring Texas Romaine Lettuce, Texas English Cucumbers, Cherry Tomatoes, and Baby Carrots with Ranch Dressing
🍎 Applesauce & 🍊 Mandarin Oranges
🥛 Choice of Texas-made milk

💚 We’re proud to serve fresh ingredients, support our Texas farmers, and bring locally sourced goodness to our students’ plates! Every bite is a celebration of Texas agriculture and the amazing people who help feed our communities! 🌱🚜

🙌 Fresh Food, Local Roots, Happy Students! ❤️

#TexasFarmFresh #ServeLocal #TrueHarvestFarm #DoguetsRice #TexasGrown #FarmFreshChallenge #SupportTexasFarmers 🌾🤠

🍂 FALL BREAK REMINDER! 🍂

Spurger Elementary will be out for FALL BREAK:

📅 Monday, October 5th – Friday, October 9th
🚫 NO SCHOOL

Then, on Monday, October 12th, we will have a Professional Development Day for our staff. There will be NO SCHOOL for students that day as well.

🏴‍☠️ Students will return to school on Tuesday, October 13th!

We hope everyone enjoys a safe, fun, and relaxing Fall Break! 🍂🧡

We’ll see our Pirates back at school on Tuesday! 🏴‍☠️📚

❤️🎀 RED RIBBON WEEK IS COMING! 🎀❤️

Spurger Elementary will be celebrating Red Ribbon Week October 26th–30th! We have a fun week planned with a different theme each day! 🎉

Monday, Oct. 26: Wear Red
Tuesday, Oct. 27: Western Day
Wednesday, Oct. 28: Camo Day
Thursday, Oct. 29: Crazy Hair Day
Friday, Oct. 30: Halloween Costumes

Please remember that Friday costumes must be school appropriate. NO MASKS or SCARY COSTUMES will be allowed.

Let’s have some fun while reminding our students to make good choices, be kind, and STAY DRUG FREE! ❤️🎀

We can’t wait to see everyone participate! 🏴‍☠️❤️

🎃🥧 Who Stole the Enchanted Pumpkin Pie?! 🕵️‍♀️🕵️‍♂️

Mrs. Spittler’s 5th grade class put their detective skills to work as they tried to solve the mystery of who stole the enchanted pumpkin pie from Haunted Hollow Manor! 👻🏚️

As part of their STAAR prep, students practiced division and reading comprehension skills while gathering clues, solving problems, and working together to crack the case! 📚➗🔎

Learning, teamwork, and a little Halloween mystery made for a fun way to prepare for STAAR! 🎃👻🥧

Great job, 5th grade detectives! 🕵️‍♀️🕵️‍♂️

🌱🍎 WE’RE BACK & READY FOR THE TEXAS FARM FRESH CHALLENGE! 🤠🌾

Look at this DELISH lineup! 😋

🥔 BBQ Pulled Pork Baked Potato
Featuring Texas-grown potatoes 🌟

🥦 Broccoli & Cheese Soup
Made with Texas-grown broccoli 🧀🥦

🍘 Served with whole-grain crackers

🥗 Beautiful Self-Serve Salad Bar
Fresh Texas-grown favorites:
🍅 Texas cherry tomatoes
🥬 Texas romaine lettuce
🥒 Texas English cucumbers
🥒 Texas zucchini

🍎 Apples from Texas, Blueberries, Pickled Beets

🥛 Your Favorite Choice of Milk
🐄 # Hiland Texas
🥛 # Trueharvest Farm #Texas DOD

🌟 WE SERVE LOCAL! 🌟
❤️ Supporting Texas farmers while serving fresh, delicious meals to our students!

#TexasFarmFreshChallenge #WeServeLocal #TexasGrown #SchoolMeals #FarmToSchool #TexasFarmFresh #LocalFood #HealthySchoolMeals

🌱 Farm Fresh Challenge starts next week!

Throughout October, Spurger ISD students will get to enjoy fresh Texas-grown foods while learning more about local agriculture and healthy eating. We’re excited to bring some new flavors to the cafeteria! 🍎🥩🍉

📸 SCHOOL & SENIOR PICTURES! 📸

Don’t forget! School Pictures and Senior Pictures will be Wednesday, October 14th! 🏴‍☠️

Be sure to check out the flyers for all the details, including ordering information and what you need to know for picture day.

We can’t wait to see all those smiles! 📸❤️🏴‍☠️

🐘🧪 Elephant Toothpaste Experiment! 🧪🐘

Mrs. Davis’s science class had some BIG fun yesterday with the Elephant Toothpaste experiment! The students got to see science in action as their experiment created a foamy, fizzy reaction that was definitely exciting to watch! 🤩

Hands-on experiments like this make learning science fun, memorable, and a little messy! 🔬🧪

Way to go, scientists! 🐘💥
#SpurgerPirates #ScienceFun #ElephantToothpaste #HandsOnLearning

📚❤️ A Special Guest Reader in Pre-K! ❤️📚

Our Pre-K students had a special visitor! Constable Ross stopped by to spend some time with our little Pirates and read them a story. 🏴‍☠️📖

We love when members of our community take the time to visit, connect with our students, and help make learning fun! Thank you, Constable Ross, for sharing a story and some smiles with our Pre-K students! 💕📚

Thank you for being a part of our Pirate family! 🏴‍☠️❤️

🍎🌳 Johnny Appleseed Day! 🌳🍎

Our Pre-K and Kindergarten students had a fun-filled Johnny Appleseed Day on Friday! ❤️🍎 They learned all about Johnny Appleseed, apples, and the importance of planting and growing.

There were lots of smiles, learning, and of course… plenty of apple fun! 🍏🍎

We love seeing our youngest Pirates learning through fun, hands-on activities! 🏴‍☠️❤️🤍

#SpurgerPirates #JohnnyAppleseedDay #PreK #Kindergarten #LearningIsFun

*Attention Volleyball Fans*

Please see the updated schedule.

🥧 PIE NIGHT REMINDER! 🥧

Just a reminder that PIE Night is TONIGHT!

📅 Thursday, September 24th
⏰ 5:00–7:00 PM
📍 Spurger Elementary