AM Announcements - September 25

AM Announcements
September 25, 2009

1. Today is Day 23.

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: September 25
Dollar Dress Down DayStudent Council members will be selling hot Starbucks Coffee for $2.00 per cup during staff arrival and parent drop-off. Be sure to get a cup to start your day.
Testing Students with Disabilities meeting - Ms. Marston off-campus - 8:00-1:00

4. Upcoming Calendar Items:
a. 9/29 - PLC Train the Trainer Session - Rm. 169 - 8:00 AM
b. 9/29 - Technology staff development - 2:40-4:15
c. 9/29 - Bookworms Training - Teacher Assistants and Corporate Volunteers - Rm. 39
d. 10/3 - Student Council Car Wash /Yard Sale - 7:00-12:30.
e. 10/5 - Picture make-up day
f. 10/12-16 - Pennies for Patients penny drive
g. 10/15 - Ident-A-Kid at Speas

5. Student Council members will be selling hot Starbucks coffee from the Robinhood Road Starbucks this morning. The coffee was donated and is a fundraiser for your Student Council. Please support them by purchasing a cup for $2.00. Coffee will also be sold to parents during student drop off.

6. I am still in need of certified and classified staff members to work after school in our 3rd and 5th grade tutoring program. The pay is $25 p/h for certified and $17 to $22 for classified depending on qualifications. Drop me an e-mail if you are interested. Tutoring takes place every Monday, Wednesday and Thursday afternoon and will begin in October.

7. Today is a Dollar Dress Down Day. Students who have brought a $1.00 do not have to wear their uniforms.

8. Student Council Officers and Represtatives were inducted last night. Congratulations.

I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Alan Kay

If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.
Paul Beatty

Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen.
John le Carre (1931 - ), "The Chancellor Who Agreed To Play Spy", The New York Times, May 8, 1974