AM Announcements - October 13

AM Announcements
October 13, 2009

1. Today is Day 35.

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:

Tuesday: October 13
Principal of the Year Breakfast - 7:30-9:00 - Reichert off-campus
Staff Meeting - 2:40 - Media Center
A's and Bees Tutoring - 6:00-8:00

Wednesday: October 14
No events at this time

Thursday: October 15
Ident-A-Kid at Speas - gym
Elementary Principals' meeting - 7:15-12:00 - Reichert off-campus

Friday: October 16
MOVE/Construction meeting - 8:00-9:00 - Reichert off-campus
Sol Ed meeting - 3:00-5:00 - Reichert off-campus

4. Upcoming Calendar Items:
a. 10/19 - After School Tutoring begins
b. 10/19 - Interim Reports go home
c. 10/20 - Paisley IB Assembly - Fifth Grade - 1:00-1:45 - gym
d. 10/21 - Junior League Puppet Show - 9:45 - Third Grade
e. 10/22 - First Quarter testing begins
f. 10/28 - First Quarter ends

5. Yesterday morning I received word that Speas has been selected as a Piedmont Triad Signature School by the Piedmont Triad Educational Consortium. This is a group of 15 school districts and 17 higher education institutions in the central Piedmont who band together to provide staff development and on-going support for public education. We were selected based on growth during the 2008-2009 school year.

6. "The NED Show" items are on sale each morning this week in room #7 until 7:55 AM.

7. Ms. Badarin will offer a Smart Board workshop in her room on Thursday, October 22 from 2:40-3:40. Ms. Jewell will provide snacks.

8. We are still looking for 4-5 volunteers who would be willing to design a lesson plan format that would meet Speas needs and make things easier for staff members. The committee will report to Ms. Powell and the form they design will be the one we use. Send Ms. Powell an e-mail if you are interested. I have forwarded the e-mails that were turned in on Friday to her.

9. Appalachian State University is proposing to begin in the fall of 2010 a Master of Arts program in Curriculum Specialist on the campus of Surry Community College – Yadkin Center.An informational meeting for this program is scheduled for Tuesday, October 20th at 6:00 P.M. in Room 203 of the SCC-Yadkin Center.

10. There is a staff meeting this afternoon at 2:40 in the media center.

11. I have been asked to announce that today is the cafeteria they are serving "TACO SALAD."

12. There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes.
Doctor Who

I'm just a person trapped inside a woman's body.
Elayne Boosler

I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
Edward Gibbon (1737 - 1794)