AM Announcements - January 14

AM Announcements
January 14, 2009

1. Today is Day 84.

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:

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 - 3:30-6:00 - 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. Willette Nash would like to schedule multicultural education walk through. She would like to visit at least 5 classrooms if possible. If you would like for her to visit your classroom please send an e-mail to me. I will work with her on a date at the beginning of the 3rd quarter.

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 continue.

8. On Monday January 26th from 9 am – 1 pm a Winter Education Symposium will be held at Redeemer Presbyterian Church. This event has been approved by Dr. Martin as 0.3 continuing education units. The symposium is titled "Connecting with you Students, Impacting your Community" and will include the following presenters: author and educator Dr. Gary Chapman, Salem College professor Krishauna Hines-Gaither, and educator and professional dancer Shawn Bowman-Hicks. The event will focus on teahers’ value to the community and will equip teachers to connect and communicate effectively with all their students. The symposium agenda and registration material have been posted in the lounge.

9. The ladies from Clinque will be back tomorrow. There is a sign-up sheet in the mail room.

10. Students sitting in the Honey Pot Cafe are not cleaaning the tables or the floors when they leave. This is also true of some classrooms. PLease make certain that the students you leave behind to clean tables are responsible and that you tell your students in Honey Pot that it is their responsibility to clean up when they leave.

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. Ms. Rhodes and Mr. Cokely counted the ballots and the vote on the School Improvement Plan was 39 in favor, 1 opposed and one abstention. The Plan passes and will be reported with a 97.5% favorable vote.

13. We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)

Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.
W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946)

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)

Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening.
Barbara Tober