AM Announcements - September 02

AM Announcements
September 02, 2009

1. Today is Day 07.

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: September 02
Quest Atlantis training - 8:00-3:00 - all teachers grades 4-5 and assistants grades 1-2

Thursday: September 03
School Pictures

Friday: September 04
No events at this time

4. Upcoming Calendar Items:
a. 9/07 - Labor Day Holiday - No School
b. 9/08 - Staff Meeting
c. 9/10 - Cub Scout Sign-up Night 7:00 PM
d. 9/11 - All teacher web pages updated by this date
e. 9/15 - Gateway Meeting - 3rd and 5th grade students and parents - 6:00 PM

5. Please talk with your SIT representative regarding issues discussed in yesterday's meeting. I will notify you when the minutes have been posted to the shared volume.

6. Please remember to shut off all your computers every night. We have over 20,000 computers in the system and every night, an average of 3,600 are left on. It is your responsibility to check the monitor and CPU of every computer in your rooms to ensure that they are off before you leave each afternoon.

8. Please remember to update your web page by 9/11.

9. Speas is now on Facebook and Twitter. As a reminder, school board policy prohibits WSFCS personnel from being a "friend" to students, present or past. These two programs are for the dissemination of information only.

10. Mr. Michael Larson will be here after school on Wednesday, September 09, to meet with interested individuals regarding financial planning. Mr. Larson is with Primerica Financial Services. He will meet in the media center only with those interested.

11. The minutes of yesterday's SIT meeting have been placed on the shared volume in the Staffshare folder, SIT Minutes, 2009-2010.

12. We have the entire fourth and fifth grades out today at Quest Atlantis training along with teacher assistants from grades 1 and 2. Everyone needs to be on their toes with this many subs in the building. Step up and help them should they need assistance.

13. Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.
William Safire (1929 - )

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821 - 1890)

I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants.
A. Whitney Brown

I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.
George Burns (1896 - 1996)