AM Announcements - June 03

AM Announcements
June 03, 2009

1. Today is Day 173.

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: June 03
EOG - 2nd Administration - 3rd-5th Grade Reading
Leadership Winston-Salem - Reichert off-campus all day

Thursday: June 04
EOG - 2nd Administration - 3rd-5th Grade Math - Calculator Active
Induction of Student Council Officers - 6:00 PM

Friday: June 05
EOG - 2nd Administration - 3rd-5th Grade Math - Calculator Inactive
Dollar Dress Down Day
Carolina Ballet Theater Performance - Grades 3-5 - 1:30 - gym

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. Thanks for all your efforts in cleaning up the campus. Speas was awarded the The Clean and Green Award at the Campus Excellence level. Thanks as well to Ms. Powell who spearheaded our campaign.

6. Upcoming dates for your calendar:
a. June 08 - Student Council Trip
b. June 10 - Class Picnics
c. June 11 - Honor Roll - 8:15
d. June 11 - Fifth Grade Celebration - 10:00
e. June 11 - Fifth Grade Social - 11:30-1:30 - gym
f. June 12 - Last day of school for students

7. Congratulations to our fifh grade teachers and their students. They increased the number of students proficient on the Science test from 34.6% to 59.6%. That's a 25% increase. Keep your fingers crossed that we see similar increases on the reading and math tests the remainder of the week.

8. I will be off-campus all day today at the final session of Leadership Winston-Salem.

9. Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967), The People, Yes (1936)

All power corrupts, but we need the electricity.
Unknown

We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
John W. Gardner (1912 - 2002)

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880)