AM Announcements - October 21

AM Announcements
October 21, 2009

1. Today is Day 41.

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:

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
Arts Connection on Campus - 8:45-2:00 - Media Center

Thursday: October 22
First Quarter testing begins
Dental Screening - AM - Grades PK, K, 3, 5, and EC - gym
SmartBoard Workshop - Badarin
Curriculum Coordinators' meeting - 11:30-3:00 - 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. A comment was posted yesterday regarding lesson plans. The comment and a response can be accessed by clicking on yesterday's post and going to the bottom of the post.

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

7. Diana Marshall-Shoaf/Arts Connection Team Lead will be here today from 8:45 until 2:00 p.m. in the media center. Please stop by during your special to select a time for the Arts Connection Team to work with your students during the month of November.

8. Remember that Dental Screening is tomorrow for Pre-K, K, 3, 5 and EC. Parents who do not want their child screened are to send a note to the teachers stating this fact. A note has been prepared in the office and placed in your boxes. It should be sent home today.

9. The current total for our United Way drive stands at $ 3,260. We are moving forward toward our $3,544 goal. Right now we are $284 away. It will take you to put us over the top. Thanks for considering a contribution.

10. Please remind your students during National School Bus Safety week about:1). Bus Stop Safety2). Proper Conduct on School Buses 3). "Bottoms to Bottoms, Backs to Backs and Book bags in laps."

11. We were notified yesterday that we will be receiving "new" laptops for the certified staff beginning as early as this week. Currently we are scheduled to receive 38 laptops. Ms. Smith will handle the collection of the old ones and the issuance on new ones.

12. Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.
W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946)

We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?
Jean Cocteau (1889 - 1963)

When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.
Gracie Allen (1906 - 1964)

The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
Daniel Webster (1782 - 1852)