AM Announcements - May 06

AM Announcements
May 06, 2009

1. Today is Day 154.

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: May 06
Field Trip - Grade 4
Leadership Winston-Salem - Reichert off-campus all day

Thursday: May 07
No events at this time

Friday: May 08
NCCLAS - Assessor #2 returns materials to Assessor #1
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. Take a moment today to change a life forever. Fill out your pledge to the UNCF.

6. The 20 day blitz continues!.

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

8. Please check with your SIT representative regarding yesterday's meeting. A number of very important issues related to expenditures and staff development were discussed.

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

10. Special "Thanks" go out to everyone for their flexibility yesterday in order to complete Field Day indoors. We want to especially thank Ms. Alston, the specialists and assistants who managed the games and the job done by all her team leaders. We also want to thank the cafeteria staff for, "Going with the Flow" and getting everyone fed.

11. Happy Teacher Appreciation Day! The luncheon and gifts are courtesy of your PTA/Student Council. In some small way we want to say "Thank You!" for all you do throughout the course of the year to benefit our students and their families. Nothing can ever repay you for you dedication and commitment but know that we see what you do and appreciate it very much.

12. I met with Joyce Kohfeldt, Toni Bigham, Jamie Costello and Lee Koch yesterday regarding a Fountas and Pinell reading intervention program they would like to place here for the 2009 school year. You will be hearing more about this. All materials and training would be free. It would involve us committing personnel to implement so we need to give this close scrutiny. We have two weeks to make a decision to participate. We will hold a meeting next week to review this program with K-2, EC and Title-1 teachers.

13.I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Charles De Gaulle (1890 - 1970)

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990), in Forbes Magazine

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
Arnold Toynbee (1889 - 1975)