AM Announcements - October 16

AM Announcements
October 16, 2009

1. Today is Day 38.

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: 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. 10/22 - SmartBoard workshop - Badarin
g. 10/28 - First Quarter ends

5. If you are an NCCTM member and would like to attend "Zooming in on the Essentials" NCCTM State Math Conference in Greensboro, October 29-30 FREE OF CHARGE, please let me know by noon today. Velvet Simington is offering to reimburse one slot per school at the $55 member rate. The link below will take you to the NCCTM web site for more information about the conference.

https://secure.ncctm.org/index.cfm

6. "The NED Show" items sale will close this morning at 7:55.

7. I will be off-campus this morning from 7:30-9:15 at a meeting at central office regarding our upcoming construction. Bids are due October 27 and Ms. Powell and I have been working with the powers that be developing the plans for how we will move around the building during the 18 month construction process. Look for things to begin around mid to late November. The first group to move out of their rooms into the pod will be 4th and 5th grades and that move will take place in the Spring.

8. On the PTA Board in the front lobby are the names of parents and staff members who have joined PTA. Please consider adding your name on a star. It's only $5.00 and it goes to support the work of the PTA and benefit our students.

9. Your United Way pledge will do a lot for our community during this time of economic uncertainty. Most importantly it will help the most vulnerable among us.

10. A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)

The prospect of a long day at the beach makes me panic. There is no harder work I can think of than taking myself off to somewhere pleasant, where I am forced to stay for hours and 'have fun'.
Phillip Lopate

A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
Dorothy L. Sayers (1893 - 1957), Lord Peter Wimsey in "Gaudy Night"

Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.
Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)