AM Announcements - May 26

AM Announcements
May 26, 2009

1. Today is Day 167.

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:

Tuesday: May 26
Interim Reports go home
EOG Remediation - 5/26 through 6/1
Equity+ Principals' Steering Committee meeting - Reynolds HS - 10:30-12:00 - Reichert off-campus
Equity+ Principals' meeting - Reynolds HS - 12:00-2:00 - Reichert off-campus
Student Council Election process - 5/26 through 6/1

Wednesday: May 27
EOG Remediation

Thursday: May 28
EOG Remediation

Friday: May 29
EOG Remediation
Box Tops for Education collected

4. At the end of each day, please do the following:
a. CLOSE ALL BLINDS
b. TURN OFF ALL MONITORS and COMPUTERS (CPU's)Don't forget.

5. Classified staff are reminder to leave at 2:30 today.

6. We can say a prayer of "thanks" today. George Burnette, a fifth grade student in Ms. Linhart's class was hit by a car on Saturday. He was hospitalized overnight with a concussion but had no other injuries. The car through him in the air; he then bounced off it as it sped away. Police have not made any arrests in this hit and run case. But George is fine.

7. Upcoming dates for your calendar:
a. June 2-6 - EOG Retests
b. June 4 - Student Council Induction
c. June 5 - Dollar Dress Down Day
d. June 5 - Carolina Ballet Theater Presentation at Speas (Grades 3-5) 1:30 PM
e. June 11 - Honor Roll - 8:15
f. June 11 - Fifth Grade Celebration - 10:00
g. June 11 - Fifth Grade Social - 11:30-1:30 - gym
h. June 12 - Last day of school for students

8. EOG Remediation begins today. We will be operating on a different lunch schedule and we will send it to you via email. Watch for a crawl on your TV alerting you to check for it.

9. Don't forget to have your class complete the clean-up for your section of campus for Winston-Salem Clean and Green.

10. Tutors working with remediation should have all materials to be copied for the next day turned in to Ms. Rhodes by 3:30 each day.

11. I will be off-campus today from 10:15-2:30 at Equity+ Principals' meetings.

12. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ), Clarke's first law

Biography lends to death a new terror.
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)