AM Announcements - December 16

AM Announcements
December 16, 2008

1. Today is Day 73.

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:

Tuesday: December 16
Sugar Cake in the lounge courtesy of Ms. Pruitt the driver of Bus# 71
Pen Pal Christmas Gathering - Media Center - 1:30 PM
Dr. Martin's Christmas Open House - 3:30-5:00 - Reichert and Powell off-campus
Building and Grounds Committee re: Speas Renovation - 5:00-6:00 PM
McDonald's Night - 5:00-8:00 PM - North Point McDonalds
A's and Bees Tutoring - 6:00-8:00 PM
Meet The Principal - 6:30-7:30

Wednesday: December 17
Hope Presbyterian provides breakfast goodies
Title-1 Plan Peer Review - 8:00-9:00 AM
RJR Jazz Band - 10:00 AM in the gym

Thursday: December 18
Christmas parties 1:00-2:00 PM

Friday: December 19
Dollar Dress Down Day
Box Tops for Education collected

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. There is sugar cake in the lounge today courtesy of Ms. Pruitt the driver of Bus #71. There will be breakfast goodies in the lounge on Wednesday. These are a gift from Hope Presbyterian Church.

6. Upcoming dates for your calendar:
a. December 17 - SIP Title-1 Plan Peer Review 8:00-9:00 AM
b. December 17 - RJR Jazz Band - 10:00 AM
c. December 18 and 19 - Classified staff members depart an hour early

7. Thanks to Ms. Kooken, the RJR Jazz band will be here on Wednesday for a 10:00 AM performance. We will sit K classes near the front in case they need to leave early in order to get to lunch.

8. Classified staff members are to fill out their time sheets on a DAILY basis. They should access their electronic time sheet when they first arrive at the beginning of the day and enter their arrival time. Then they should access it again just prior to departure and enter the time they leave. Principals had a lengthy presentation by Kerry Crutchfield regarding this issue. We will now be checking time sheets randomly to insure that they are being filled out appropriately. I have a Power Point to share with classified staff after the first of the year.

9. Please take a moment to visit McDonalds tonight and support Speas. You can eat in or go through the drive-thru. Either way a portion of your order will return to Speas. Take a break from holiday shopping and come out for dinner.

10. There is a Dollar Dress Down Day this Friday.

11. Ms. Merrill has TAC on Wednesday at 12:00 PM so she needs any issues by 11:00 AM on Wednesday.

12. The following readings are scheduled for today:
Falor - 8:15
Kelly - 9:45
Merrill/Mincer - 12:00
Smith - 12:50


13. Sometimes when you look in his eyes you get the feeling that someone else is driving.
David Letterman (1947 - )

I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
Joseph Baretti, quoted in Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson

The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.
Bill Cosby (1937 - )

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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