AM Announcements - February 25

AM Announcements

February 25, 2009

1. Today is Day 110.

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 25

Curriculum Coordinators' meeting - 8:00-4:00 - Ms. Marston off-campus

Author Susan Crummel visits Speas - 8:15-9:15 - gym (classes will not be called)

Jump Rope for Heart - 12:15 - gym - Ms. Alston directs

Thursday: February 26

WS/FC Science Fair - SciWorks

Title-1 Parent Involvement Audit

Friday: February 27

Teacher Evaluation training - Ms. Powell off -campus all day

Box Tops for Education collected

UNCC Recruiting Trip - Reichert Off-campus - 9:00-5:00

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. If grade four teachers have taken totals for books read over the last 3 weeks for the MEAC Challenge, please report them to me today so I can turn them in.

6. Upcoming dates for your calendar:

a. March 3 - SIT

b. March 6-13 - Book Fair

c. March 9-10 - Really Big Night afternoon rehearsals

d. March 10 - Really Big Night - 7:00-8:30

e. March 18 - Dental Screening

f. March 19-26 - 3rd Quarter EOQ testing

g. March 24 - AR Benchmarks due

h. March 27 - Dollar Dress Down Day

i. April 1-3 - Spring Break

7. Classes will not be called to today's author presentation. They should come to the gym immediately following Morning Broadcast.

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. The Art's Council Fund Drive ends soon. Don't miss your chance to help us reach 100%.

The piece above is by Georgia O'Keefe. It is a landscape of her adopted home in New Mexico. If you are ever in Santa Fer, the Georgia O'Keefe Museum is a must for any art lover.

10. I have a request from an A & T student to observe a social studies or health class. Send me an e-mail if you would like to have her sit in on yours.

11. Fifth grade students Parent Surveys should be turned in today. Once we have the list of students who brought them I will have Ms. Higgins get the money from the bank. We will pay the $1.00 tomorrow at lunch time.

12. Addie Hymes will be here tomorrow from the Title-1 office to audit our Parent Involvement notebook.

13. I will be off-campus most of Friday on a recruiting trip to UNC-Charlotte.

14. Ms. Alston's Jump Rope for Heart students have raised almost $800 so far. The activity will take place today at 12:15 in the gym.

15. Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
Pat Paulsen

It matters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.
Darrin Weinberg

Conceit is God's gift to little men.
Bruce Barton

There's always somebody who is paid too much, and taxed too little - and it's always somebody else.
Cullen Hightower