AM Announcements - January 12

AM Announcements
January 12, 2009

1. Today is Day 82.

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:

Monday: January 12
Interim Progress Reports go home
Workshop Facilitators' meeting - Marston off campus - 2:00
Technology Staff Development - Wiki/Blog - Powell off-campus - 3:15
Constuction Meeting - 3:30 - Reichert

Tuesday: January 13
Student Council Officers - 1:30-2:15 - Room #3
Staff Meeting - Final vote on 2008-2011 SIP
CiCi's Pizza Night - 5:00-8:00
A's and Bees Tutoring - 6:00-8:00

Wednesday: January 14
Leadership Winston-Salem - Reichert off-campus all day

Thursday: January 15
Elementary Principals' Meeting - 7:15-12:00 - Reichert off-campus
Retirement Luncheon for David Fitzpatrick - 12:00-1:30 - Reichert and Powell off-campus

Friday: January 16
Final Copy of SIP Due at Central Office (Toni Bigham)
Second Quarter EOQ Tests
Don Phillips Presentation - CO Auditorium - 4:00-6:00 - Reichert and Powell off-campus

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

5. Please check the walkie-talkie each time you have it in your possession to insure that you can communicate with the office. If a walkie does not operate, additional ones are available in the media center on the shelves to the right of the television clock. No class should be on the playground without a walkie-talkie available.

6. Upcoming dates for your calendar:
a. January 16-23 - End of Quarter Tests
b. January 19 - No School - MLK Holiday
c. January 20 - AR Benchmarks due
d. January 23 - End of Quarter
e. January 26 - No School - RS day for report cards
f. January 27 - Technology Staff Development - 2:30-5:00
g. January 27-29 - AR Celebrations - (27/K; 28/1-2; 29/ 3-5)

7. Be Healthy School Kids classroom presentations begin.

8. Interim progress reports are to be sent home today in Monday Packets.

9. Ms. Marston and Ms. Powell will be off-campus this afternoon at Central Office for meetings.

10. There will be a construction meeting here this afternoon at 3:30.

11. We have been given forty (40) tickets to the Thursday, January 15 WFU v. Boston College Women's Basketball game. Each ticket is good for admitting two individuals. These are available from Ms. Rhodes on a first come first served basis.

12. One of our parents attended the WS/FCS Title-1 meeting Thursday evening to provide input into how the system can better serve students and parents. She came in Friday morning to say that she was very happy that her chilcren were at Speas. What she heard other parents say about the schools their children attended; their lack of communication; and inablility to work with parents confirmed her belief that Speas was the place for her children.

13. A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions.
Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933)

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
John Cleese (1939 - )

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962)