AM Announcements - September 14

AM Announcements
September 14, 2009

1. Today is Day 14.

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:

Monday: September 14
Winston-Salem Symphony performance - (4-5) 9:00 AM - gym
WFU students visit - 11:15 AM

Tuesday: September 15
Equity+ Principals' Steering Committee - 7:30 0- Mr. Waffle - Reichert off-campus
Gateway meeting - 6:00 PM - Media Center
Pastries for Grandparents - 10:30-1:00
SIT Calendar meeting - 2:40

Wednesday: September 16
Assistant Principals' meeting - 9:30-12:30 - Ms. Powell off campus
NCWISE Grade book Training - 2:40

Thursday: September 17
No events at this time

Friday: September 18
SolEd Meeting - Reichert off-campus - 3:30-5:00 PM

4. Upcoming Calendar Items:
a. 9/22 - Marzano staff development 2:40-4:00
b. 9/24 - Pre-bid meeting at Speas 9:00-10:00
c. 9/25 - Dollar Dress Down Day
d. 9/29 - Technology staff development - 2:40-4:15
e. 10/3 - Student Council car wash /yard sale - 7:00-12:30
f. 10/5 - Picture make-up day
g. 10/12-16 - Pennies for Patients penny drive
h. 10/15 - Ident-A-Kid at Speas

5. Ms. Billingsley and Ms. Spaventa begin seeing their students today

6. The training for NCWISE Grade book is this Wednesday.

7. We are working on Ms. Holman's schedule for EC/SLD students. AS soon as it is set she will begin seeing students during the vacancy. All these students will be pulled during the afternoon.

8. Time for peer observations is slipping away. Please get together with the individual you are observing and schedule a time for it. Remember that you can only observe the areas that are indicated with a check mark in the first column. You may not see all of these. That is OK. If you don't observe a particular aspect of a standard, just not that in the last column. Don't forget to take time to do your self-assessment.

9. The WS Symphony Brass Ensemble is here today at 9:00 AM. This is for students in grades 4-5 and is in the gym. Please be prompt. Classes will not be called. They have a performance immediately following ours so we want to start right at 9:00.

10. From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)

We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know.
W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973)

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 - 1825)

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)