AM Announcements - June 05

AM Announcements
June 05, 2009


1. Today is Day 175.


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: 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. A number of staff members have gotten lax and have not been arriving by 7:15 each day. We have spoken with these individuals but because the problem is was wide-spread, we want to make this general reminder that the arrival expectation time has not changed.


8. We will honor our retiring staff members with a reception on Tuesday afternoon beginning at 2:45 in the media center. Please join us as we celebrate the careers of the individuals and wish them well as a new chapter in their lives begins.


9. Today marks to end of EOG testing for large groups. From this point on we will be doing make-up testing only. Ms. Marston is taking our tests down this afternoon and we should have scores from the second administration by Monday morning.


10. The Carolina Ballet performance is at 1:30 this afternoon in the gym for grades 3-5. We will call classes when the troupe is ready.


11. A crew from Greensboro will be on-site either today or early next week. They will be boring test holes between the back building and the tree line to check the extent of subsurface rock formations. They will not arrive today until testing is complete so they will not interfere. While this drilling is going on please keep your students out of the area behind the school. They should be no closer than the playground equipment. Children can be very curious about heavy equipment. You will need to watch them very carefully.

12. It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
Voltaire (1694 - 1778)

The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
Warren Buffett (1930 - )

You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834 - 1892)

Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)