AM Announcements - October 01

AM Announcements
October 01, 2009


1. Today is Day 27


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: October 01
Reichert off-campus


Friday: October 02
Reichert off-campus
Please remind your students that there is a Car Wash/Yard Sale tomorrow from 7:00-12:00


4. Upcoming Calendar Items:
a. 10/3 - Student Council Car Wash /Yard Sale - 7:00-12:30.
b. 10/5 - Picture make-up day
c. 10/12-16 - Pennies for Patients penny drive
d. 10/12 - United Way Kickoff - Media Center - 2:45
e. 10/13 - Staff Meeting
f. 10/15 - Ident-A-Kid at Speas
g. 10/19 - Interim Reports go home
h. 10/21 - Junior League Puppet Show - 9:45 - Third Grade


5. Don't forget to make plans to come out and support our Student Council this Saturday morning at their Car Wash/Yard Sale/Bake Sale, from 7:00-12:00.


6. All teachers, with the exception of LD Resource, Speech and LLI, should be posting Essential Questions for every lesson.


7. I will be off-campus today, tomorrow and Monday. Ms. Powell is in charge.


8. Yesterday afternoon we celebrated Marie Larson as Teacher of the Year and the WS/FCS Teacher of the Year reception. Marie was one of the 10 semi-finalists and we are very proud of her.

9. Vote early and vote often.
Al Capone (1899 - 1947)

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.
Robert Morley

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.
William Dement, in Newsweek, 1959


The only way to be truly misogynistic is to be a woman.
Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive webcomic, 11-11-04