AM Announcements - May 01

AM Announcements
May 01, 2009

1. Today is Day 151.

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:

Friday: May 01
Review Conferences
Gateway training Session - 9:00-10:00 - Reichert off Campus
Gateway Training Session - 1:00-2;00 - Marston off-campus
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. Ms. Odom has placed information regarding the United Negro College Fund drive in everyone's boxes. This is a major effort on the part of our school system. It funds college scholarships for students who then come back and teach in our system. This not only benefits the student but also our system. The UNCF is a major force in scholarship assistance at Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Please consider making a donation to this worthwhile organization. Payroll deduction is by far the easiest way to contribute. Remember, a mind is a terrible thing to waste.

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 haven't said "Thanks" for wonderful food and fellowship at the volunteer luncheon, please take a moment to do so.

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

10. The WS/FCS Spring Extravaganza Art Exhibit runs May 1-6 at the Old Salem Visitors' Center. Everyone is encouraged to go and view the artwork our students have created under the direction of Ms. Laney.

11. Certified staff members are invited to attend a recruitment meeting for the Master of Education In Elementary Education Program at Winston-Salem State University. The meeting is May 13, 2009, 5:30 p.m. –6:30 p.m., Anderson Center Room 238, Winston-Salem State University.

12. I will be off campus this morning from 8:30-10:30 attending a Gateway training session. Ms. Marston will attend a similar session this afternoon beginning at 1:00 PM.

13. MTV is the lava lamp of the 1980's.
Doug Ferrari

Virtue is its own punishment.
Aneurin Bevan (1897 - 1960)

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650)

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.
George Orwell (1903 - 1950), "Politics and the English Language", 1946