AM Announcements - February 18

AM Announcements

February 18, 2009

1. Today is Day 105.

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: February 18
ENCORE Staff-development - Ms. Powell off-campus - 9:00 AM

Fifth Grade Science Session - Goal 3 - Room 169 4:00-6:00 PM

Thursday: February 19

IEP Training - EC Staff

Friday: February 20
System-wide Spelling Bee - 10:00-12:00
Operations and School Board at Speas - 3:30

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. "Thanks" go out to our Arts Council committee for the refreshments yesterday. They have done a wonderful job in Rose's absence and we appreciate their hard work.

6. Upcoming dates for your calendar:

a. February 23 - Interim Reports go home

b. February 24 - Technology Staff development

c. February 25 - Author Susan Crummel's visit - 8:15-9:00 - gym

d. February 25 - Jump Rope for Heart - 12:15

7. The Zone Choice period is February 23- March 6. Any parents wishing their children to remain at Speas do not have to do anything. The child will be automatically assigned to Speas. If they desire to switch to one of the other schools in Zone 5, they must request a Choice Card from our office. The out-of-zone transfer period will follow later in the spring.

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. If you haven't filled out your Art's Council Fund Drive pledge sheet, there is still time. Year after year our students benefit from this drive. Remember we are striving for 100% participation. That means, "We need you!" It doesn't matter how much you give. It only matters that you give. Who knows maybe one of our students will be the next Alexander Calder.

10. Yesterday's Marzano staff-development was proof that really good things are going on right under our noses here at Speas. You are to be commended for the creative ways you have implemented these ideas.

11. Ms. Powell will be off campus this morning at an ENCORE Staff-development.

12. If you are interested in volunteering to work with small groups of tutoring students this Saturday from 8:30-11:30 please send e a return e-mail today. Our students would really appreciate it as would I.

13. There are 350 varieties of shark, not counting loan and pool.
L. M. Boyd

We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.
Tom Stoppard (1937 - ), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
Marquis de la Grange (1639 - 1692)

It's not a matter of whether or not someone's watching over you. It's just a question of their intentions.
Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, 03-24-07