AM Announcements - May 29

AM Announcements
May 29, 2009

1. Today is Day 170.

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:

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. Remember that we have a representative from Child Nutrition in the cafeteria all day today. No staff members should go beyond the cashier into the back. Barbara is out today. If you have needs in the kitchen, please see Teri.

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. 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.

8. I will be off-campus this morning from 9:30-11:30 at a memorial service for a friend who passed away on Wednesday.

9. School gets out two weeks from today, but who's counting days?

10. I have a college student who needs to observe two classrooms for about an hour each. She is not interested in seeing a lesson unless one happens to be going on. She needs to observe the children and what they are doing. If you would be willing to host her next week, please send me an e-mail. We also have a WFU grad who has volunteered for Teach for America and is moving to the Mississippi Delta to start her two year stint. She will be here this morning to observe in classrooms as the first part of her intensive training program prior to entering a classroom in the fall. Should she come to your room, just go on about whatever you are doing.

11. Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.
E. B. White (1899 - 1985), Some Remarks on Humor, introduction

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David Brinkley (1920 - 2003)

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness.
Andre Malraux (1901 - 1976)