AM Announcements - April 20

AM Announcements
April 20, 2009


1. Today is Day 142.


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: April 20
Review Conferences
Interim Reports go home
AGS Testing - Kindergarten
Last day to turn in Quarter Test booklets - Room #3

Tuesday: April 21
Review Conferences
Marzano Staff development - 2:40-4:15
McDonalds Night - 5:00-8:00
A's and Bees Tutoring - 6:00-8:00
"Meet the Principal" - 6:30-7:30

Wednesday: April 22
Review Conferences
WINGS Volunteer Breakfast - 7:45-9:00 - Bridger Field House - Reichert and Marston off-campus

Thursday: April 23
Review Conferences

Friday: April 24
Review Conferences
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. Interim Reports should be included in today's Monday Packet.

6. All lesson plans should be included in your sub notebook in the office by 8:00 AM this morning. The office will be contacting teachers who forget. Last week this group contained 14 teachers.

7. Upcoming dates for your calendar:
a. April 28 - Technology Staff Development
b. April 29 - ESL Field Trip
c. April 29 - Volunteer Luncheon - 11:00-1:30
d. April 30 - Boxtop for Education collected
e. May 01 - Kindergarten Field Trip

8. Please sign up today for your third quarter review conference if you have not already done so.

9. Don't forget to purchase your "Night Beneath the Stars" tickets. They are $35.00 per person.

10. If you have not received the Title-1 survey for your parents, please contact the office and we'll bring it down. It should go home today and students who turn them in by Friday morning will receive ice cream in the cafeteria at lunch on Friday. Teachers should keep a list of all students who turn them in during the week.

11. Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
Arthur Miller (1915 - 2005)

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

The road to hell is paved with adverbs.
Stephen King (1947 - )

Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.
Louis L'Amour (1908 - 1988)