AM Announcements - June 04

AM Announcements
June 04, 2009

1. Today is Day 174.

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: 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. If you are a K-1 teachers should collect the yellow transportation luggage tags that bus riders were given at the beginning of the year. Please begin this process now and keep a record of all the students you receive one from. This is a request from our transportation department in this tight budget year. The greater the number of tags we can recover, the fewer we have to purchase. Turn your recovered tags and your list to the office by Tuesday.

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. The latest we know about Rose is that she came through her surgery on Tuesday fine. We have no additional information. If any of you know more information, please let us know so we can disseminate it to the faculty and staff.

8. The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
Lewis Thomas (1913 - 1993)

When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.
Gracie Allen (1906 - 1964)

You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.
Ray Bradbury (1920 - ), advice to writers


You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
Cecil Baxter