AM Announcements - December 04

AM Announcements
December 04, 2008

1. Today is Day 65

.2. It is the mission of Speas Elementary School to provide its students with the tools necessary to successfully meet the challenges they will face in a diverse world.

3. Calendar items for this week:

Thursday: December 04
NCI Training - Reichert off-campus
CWS Training Powell and Marston off-campus
Orders delivered for Books are Fun

Friday: December 05
Speas Spelling Bee - 9:00 AM
2nd Grade - Moravian Candle Tea - 10:00 AM
NCI Training - Reichert off-campus

4. At the end of each day please do the following:
a. PLEASE CLOSE ALL BLINDS
b. TURN ALL TV's OFF
c. TURN OFF ALL MONITORS and COMPUTERS (CPU's)

5. The drawings and blue prints are on display in the tutoring room. Please feel free to ask questions and make comments. Comments for the architect's considerations should be made via e-mail.

6. Upcoming dates for your calendar:
a. December 06 - Holiday Open House - The Reichert's House
b. December 12 - Speas Meeting with Dr. Martin

7. Classified staff members may depart at 2:30 PM on December 18 and 19. Ms. Rhodes, Ms. Higgins, Ms. Fletcher, Mr. Ireland and Mr. Cokley will leave two hours earlier than their normal times on December 19. That means that the building will close at 4:00 PM on December 19. Please place this on your calendars.

8. I will be off-campus today receiving NCI training.

9. I received an e-mail last night about just after 10:00 PM informaing me that Ms. Brawley had suffered a heart attack and was hospitalized. As of this point I have no other information on her location or condition. Please keep her and her family in your thoughts and prayers.

10. If you would like me to read a version of The Night Before Christmas to your class December 08-19, please sign-up on the sheet in the mail room.

11. Our Superkids officer, Kim Ruff, will be here December 15 through February 06. Kindergarten, Second and Fifth grades should sign-up for sessions on the sheet in the mail room by the sign-in sheet.

12. Not every story has explosions and car chases. That's why they have nudity and espionage. - Bill Barnes and Gene Ambaum

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it. - Thomas Jefferson

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends. - Friedrich Nietzsche