AM Announcements - May 28

AM Announcements
May 28, 2009

1. Today is Day 169.

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:

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. I inadvertently left an item in the Blog on Tuesday from last Friday. The items referred to time off for classified staff for Memorial Day. This time was actually taken last Friday. Staff members should not have taken time on Tuesday. The error was mine and I don't expect anyone to repay the time.

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 Tuesday afternoon.

10. Please keep Rose Rusch in your thoughts and prayers. Her surgery is scheduled for next Tuesday, June 02 at 9:30 at Medical Park Hospital.

11. We often call down to classrooms to alert a teacher that a student's parent is coming to pick them up early. This is done so that the child will be ready when the parent arrives. Students should not be sent to the office to wait for the parent, however. We will not call for a child to be sent to the office until the parent arrives. This is because we never know how long it will take the parent to arrive. Yesterday we had a parent call and say they were on their way. They did not arrive for over an hour.

At the end of the day, all car riders go to the gym and bus riders to the front. If a parent is here to pick up a student, they are to come to the gym to get them. They cannot pick them up from the front lobby.

12. "Thanks" to the PTA and Student Council for the wonderful refreshments yesterday in appreciation of all the hard work that the staff has done to get our students through End of Grade testing. Don't forget to drop them a line.

13. After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
Cato the Elder (234 BC - 149 BC)

If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt.
Dean Martin

This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.
Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980)

I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.
Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)