AM Announcements - May 27

AM Announcements
May 27, 2009

1. Today is Day 168.

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 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. The Golden Gate Bridge opened to foot traffic today in 1937. Folks could walk across it for a quarter.

6. 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

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

8. 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.

9. Teachers, if you have thought about learning Spanish, there is class at FTCC called, amazingly enough, "Spanish for Teachers." Rafael Perez is the teacher and he is great. You would love it! Please check the e-mail I forwarded yesterday afternoon.

10. It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)

Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.
Steven Wright (1955 - )

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Krishnamurti

What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)