AM Announcements - April 27

AM Announcements
April 27, 2009

1. Today is Day 147.

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 27
Review Conferences

Tuesday: April 28
Review Conferences
Technology Staff Development - 2:40-4:15
Last A's and Bees Tutoring Session - 6:00-8:00

Wednesday: April 29
Review Conferences
Volunteer Luncheon - 11:00-1:30
ESL Field Trip

Thursday: April 30
Review Conferences
Box Tops for Education collected

Friday: May 01
Review Conferences
NCCLAS Assessor #1 completes and hands off to Assessor #2
Kindergarten Field Trip

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. This is a light week with few additional activities. Get ready because after this week, it is full-tilt to the end! Please take a look at the master calendar and get the dates down so you are ready.

6. The 20 day blitz continues!

7. Upcoming dates for your calendar:
a. May 04 - Field Day
b. May 14 - EOG testing begins (survey day)
c. May 15 - Dollar Dress Down Day
d. May 15 - Night Beneath the Stars
e. May 22 - Dollar Dress Down Day
f. May 25 - No School - Memorial Day Holiday
g. May 26-29 - EOG Remediation Sessions
h. May 27-28 - Student Council Elections

8. If you have not signed up for a review conference by the end of today, we will assign a time.

9. "Night Beneath the Stars" tickets are on sale in the office. They are $35.00 per person.

10. If you have not paid your $8.00 for the volunteer luncheon, please do so today.

11. Tomorrow night is the last A's and Bees tutoring session due to AP exams for our tutors.

12. To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
James M. Barrie (1860 - 1937)

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Following the Equator (1897)

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519)