AM Announcements - March 16

AM Announcements

March 16, 2009

1. Today is Day 121.

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:

Monday: March 16

Interim Reports go home

Ms. Powell off-campus - 7:30=10:00 AM

Tuesday: March 17

St. Patrick's Day

Toni Bigham at Speas to do my Annual Evaluation - 7:30-9:30

Marzano training - 2:40-4:00

McDonald's Night - 5:00-8:00

TOY Committee - Semi-finalists selection - 4:00-6:00 - Reichert off-campus

A's and Bee's Tutoring - 6:00-8:00

Meet the Principal - 6:30-7:30

Wednesday: March 18

Dental Screening - Grades K, 3, 5 and EC Students - 8:15

Thursday: March 19

EOQ Testing

Friday: March 20

EOQ Testing

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. There are a few left over sausage biscuits and donuts that will be placed out in the lounge after 7:15 AM.

6. Upcoming dates for your calendar:

a. March 22-26 - 3rd Quarter EOQ testing

b. March 24 - AR Benchmarks due

c. March 27 - Dollar Dress Down Day

d. April 1-3 - Spring Break

7. If you receive notes regarding parents declining to have their children screened for dental problems, please keep them until after 3/18. On 3/19, please send them to Ms. Rhodes who will file them as a group.

8. If you have questions or concerns about the furlough explanation and budget crisis, please feel free to ask. We will do our best to answer what we can.

9. Tomorrow's Marzano training will deal with our third strategy, Reinforcing effort and providing recognition.

10. Ms. Powell will be off-campus this morning from 7:15-10:00. Ms. Fletcher is out sick today.

11. Remember to have your students clean up the floor in your classroom before they go home at the end of the day. Also you will want to have them place all chairs on their desks and pick up all books, games and materials. This includes teacher books and materials as well.

12. Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980), Nausea (1938) "Vendredi"

The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
William Gibson (1948 - )

I'm a godmother, that's a great thing to be, a godmother. She calls me god for short, that's cute, I taught her that.
Ellen DeGeneres, My Point and I Do Have One

Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
Evan Esar (1899 - 1995), Esar's Comic Dictionary