AM Announcements - January 15

AM Announcements
January 15, 2009

1. Today is Day 85.

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: 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 teachers’ 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 Clinique ladies will be back today in the Teachers' Lounge.

10. Individuals wishing to donate days to Rose Rusch may pick up the form from Ms. Higgins. We need to send these in as a group. We will be sending them in on Monday. Anyone who has the days and wishes to donate is encouraged to do so by that time. We all know that Rose would deeply appreciate it.

11. We have been given forty (40) tickets to tonight's WFU v. Boston College Women's Basketball game. Each ticket is good for admitting two individuals. These are available from Ms. Rhodes.

12. If you have students who do not know how they are getting home. PLease send them toi the office prior to 1:45 so that we can call home and check. Ms. POwell cannot hold the buses at the end of the day while the office tries to track down an answer. All the drivers have additional routes to run after they leave Speas.

13. "Books Are Fun" books are in the media center and the order will be placed next Wednesday and delivered next Thursday?

14. If you can find something everyone agrees on, it's wrong.
Mo Udall

A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors.
William Ralph Inge (1860 - 1954)

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)

I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.
Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)