AM Announcements
May 20, 2009
1. Today is Day 164.
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 20
EOG testing - Math Calculator Inactive
Title-1 Meeting - 4:00-5:00 - Reichert off-campus
Thursday: May 21
EOG - Make-up sessions
Friday: May 22
EOG - Make-up sessions
NCCLAS on-line completed
FORE Book Distribution - 9:00-10:00 - Dan Arial - Polo Park Recreation Center
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. I will be off-campus this afternoon at a Title-1 meeting beginning at 3:30.
6. The EOG continues. Today is Math-Calculator Inactive for grades 3-5. Please do all you can to support our students by restricting movement and keeping students quiet in the hallways and outside these classrooms while the testing is going on. This is the last full day of testing until the second administration in June. The remainder of this week will be spent in make-up testing so we still need folks to be quiet in the halls. Testing will be going on in many locations throughout the building.
7. Upcoming dates for your calendar:
a. May 25 - No School - Memorial Day Holiday
b. May 26 - Interim Reports go home
c. May 26-29 - EOG Remediation Sessions
d. May 27-29 - Student Council Elections
8. Tables, floors and the Honey Pot are still not being cleaned appropriately by the classes/students who use them. This is especially a problem in grades 3-5 where there is not an assistant to stay with the children. Please pick responsible individuals to do this task and make sure they complete not only the tables and floors but also the Honey Pot Cafe if any of your students sat there.
9. Winston-Salem Clean and Green. Our letter about participating in Clean and Green was mailed in February but not delivered until last Thursday. Normally this is completed in April. Ms. Powell has been in contact with them and will be allowed to participate this year. She would like the for you to refer to the map placed in your box for Clean and Green clean-up. Please take your children out after testing is complete to pick up and clean-up. Mr. Ireland will provide you with garbage bags.
10. Please keep Mr. Cokley and his family in your thoughts and prayers. His father was rushed to the ER yesterday with chest pain. An evaluation was inconclusive as to whether he had suffered a heart attack or a stroke. He has notified us that he will not be in today. Please place your trash in the hallway at the end of the day to allow for easier pick-up. Also make sure to have your students place their chairs on top of their desks; pick up the big trash on the floors; and pick-up and put away all books and classroom materials in order to facilitate vacuuming.
11. No man ever listened himself out of a job.
Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933)
There is no such thing as "fun for the whole family."
Jerry Seinfeld (1954 - )
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
Terry Pratchett
I bought a cactus. A week later it died. And I got depressed, because I thought, Darn. I am less nurturing than a desert.
Demetri Martin, New York Magazine, October 3, 2005
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
1 comment:
As the end of the year approaches, just a thought for a celebration - instead of a student council trip, could the money be used for something for the entire school since the baseball game and principal's challenge are not happening this year? This would be a way for all of our students to be rewarded for all of their hard work this year. Our school deserves it and as it has been said many times before, our students do not often get these opportunities at home. Many just something in town - a picnic, a movie...
Post a Comment