AM Announcements - October 19

AM Announcements
October 19, 2009

1. Today is Day 39.

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: October 19
After school tutoring begins 2:30-4:00
Interim Reports go home in Monday Packets
CogATtraining - 12:00-3:30 - Marston off-campus
Lesson Plan Committee meets - 2:30 - Ms.,Summey's Room

Tuesday: October 20
Staff Development - 2:40-4:00 - Technology - SmartBoards
Paisley IB Assembly - 1:00-1:45

Wednesday: October 21
Junior League Puppet Show - Third Grade - 9:45-10:45 - Media Center
Equity+ Steering Committee Meeting - 1:00-3:00 - Reichert off-campus

Thursday: October 22
First Quarter testing begins
SmartBoard Workshop - Badarin
Curriculum Coordinators' meeting - 8:00-3:00 - Marston off-campus
Elementary Assistant Principals' meeting - 9:30-12:30 - Powell off-campus

Friday: October 23
Zone 5/6 Advisory Committee Meeting - Cook Elementary - Reichert and Clodfelter off campus
Rhonda Fleming visits Speas - 9:30-10:30 - Powell and Reichert
First Quarter testing - Reading - grades 3-5

4. Upcoming Calendar Items:
a. 10/27 - Staff Development - Marzano
b. 10/28 - First Quarter ends
c. 10/29 - RC Day - No School
d. 10/30 - RS Day - No School

5. After school tutoring begins today with an orientation. Individuals who are working in the program will go directly to tutoring and will not be available for after school duty. Please send all students who are staying for tutoring to the cafeteria at 2:30.

6. Please consider joining PTA. Your $5.00 donation will come back to support our school.

7. Please keep Nancy Jewell and her family in your thoughts and prayers. Her 15 year old nephew drowned on Friday while surfing on the Outer Banks. She is currently in Wilmington. Ms. McKoy is serving as her substitute.

8. Ms. Powell would like to meet with the Lesson Plan Committee this afternoon at 2:30 in Ms. Summey's room.

9. Our United Way drive continues. We are moving forward toward our $3,500 goal. Please consider a contribution toward our effort. It truly benefits our students and their families.

10. As you begin this week's planning sessions, please include in your planning session notes (minutes) the issues that your group noted in its review of the September walk-through data. This will help Ms. Marston, Ms. Powell and me as we conduct our walk-throughs and will provide you with a basis for the problem(s) that you need to address in planning. Thanks for your help.

11. We have a lot of substitutes in the building today. Please be of assistance where you can.

12. This is National School Bus Safety week. Let's ensure all students, drivers and the public are focused on School Bus Safety. Please remind children about:
1). Bus Stop Safety
2). Proper Conduct on School Buses
3). "Bottoms to Bottoms, Backs to Backs and Book bags in laps"

13. Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)

Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
Bill Watterson (1958 - ), cartoonist, "Calvin and Hobbes"

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
Phyllis Diller

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.
Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), quoted in Boswell's Life of Johnson