AM Announcements - February 12

AM Announcements
February 12, 2009

1. Today is Day 101.

Psst! Don't forget the Art's Council Fund Drive. I'm counting on you all!


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: February 12
Elementary Principals' Meeting - 7:15-12:00 - Reichert off-campus
Review Conferences -
Blackberry Training - 8:40-10:20 - Ms. Powell off-campus
Horace Mann Representative available in Cafeteria at 2:45

Friday: February 13
Review Conferences -
Pastries for Parents - 10:30-1:00 - Cafeteria
Dollar Dress Down Day

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

5. Classroom teachers should sign-up for a review conference taking place this week. The sign-up sheet is in the mail room. Today's conferences are:

6. Upcoming dates for your calendar:
a. February 17 - McDonalds' Night
b. February 17 - Marzano Staff Development
c. February 19 - IEP Training
d. February 23 - Interim Reports go home
e. February 24 - Technology Staff development
f. February 25 - Author Susan Crummel's visit - 8:15-9:00 - gym
g. February 25 - Jump Rope for Heart - 12:15

7. A representative of the Horace Mann Insurance Company will be in the cafeteria today at 2:45. He would like to meet with any individuals interested in opening a 403(b) account. Horace Mann is one of the providers selected by WS/FCS to provide this product to its employees.

8. If anyone asks you about registering for Kindergarten, remind them that beginning this year, children must turn five (5) on or before August 31.

9. I will be off-campus this morning at an Elementary Principals' meeting from 7:15-12:00 PM.

10. A two sided board showing a rough drawing of the proposed plan-B for our renovation is in the tutoring room. Please stop by and look at it. The Building and Grounds Committee asked the architect to draw up the schematics and return to them in two weeks so they can see the plan and make a decision. In the meantime, the entire committee will be stopping by Speas to look at the site and determine which plan is better in the long term. Plan-B is not perfect and I will be expressing some of my concerns to the architect and to operations later today or tomorrow.

11. Don't forget to fill out your Art's Council Fund Drive pledge sheet. (See Mona above!) Our students are counting on each and every one of us.

12. Ms. Powell will be off-campus today from 8:40-10:20 at Blackberry training.

13. This week is "National Take your Family to School Week."

Thursday - Family Game Night @ Home - encourage them to turn off the TV and play a board game at home.

Friday - Dollar Dress Down Day & Pastries for Parents Student Council will not be going to the nursing home on Thursday.

14. There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)

A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.
Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924)

If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
Doug Larson

The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
Jilly Cooper