AM Announcements - December 01

AM Announcements
December 01, 2009

1. Today is Day 64

.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: December 01
Samaritan Penny Drive Continues
Holiday Concert Practice
Holiday Concert
ON PAR Training - Ms. Marston off-campus - 9:30-11:30

Wednesday: December 02
Samaritan Penny Drive Continues
Mid-year Evaluation Conference with Toni Bigham - Reichert - 1:00-3:00

Thursday: December 03
Samaritan Penny Drive Continues
Joint Principals' meeting - 7:15-12:00 - Reichert off-campus
Construction Meeting - 9:00-10:00 AM - Powell represents Speas

Friday: December 04
Signature School Breakfast - UNCG - 8:00-10:00 Miller, Mincer and Reichert off campus
Dollar Dress Down Day
Speas Spelling Bee - 8:00-9:00 - Marston
Samartian Penny Drive ends
Second Grade Candle Tea Field Trip - 10:30-1:00
Holiday doors judged - 1:00

Saturday: December 05
Holiday Open House - Reicherts 4:00-10:00 PM

4. Upcoming Calendar Items:
a. 12/07-12/18 - ON PAR testing
b. 12/07 -Author/Illustrator David Biedrzycki at Speas - 1:15-2:15
c. 12/08-12/11 - Science Fair
d. 12/10 - PTA Meeting - 6:00 PM
e. 12/10 - Mass Vision Screening - 8:30
f. 12/11-12/16 - Spirit Week
g. 12/11-12/12 - Holiday Sleepover 7:00 PM-8:00 AM
h. 12/15 - PTA/Student Council Staff Breakfast
i. 12/17 - Holiday Parties - 1:00-2:00
j. 12/18 - Student Council Holiday trip

5. All teachers whose emergency escape routes have been altered by the construction fencing have received new maps. If you have questions please ask. Car dismissal went well yesterday, even with the shortened lanes.

6. If you would like me to read any of the versions of the Night Before Christmas, please schedule them now before the holidays fill up everything. Ms. Taylor gave me a new version last Monday, The Pirate Night Before Christmas. A sign-up sheet has been placed in the mail room.

7.8. Due to the Media Center's upcoming switch to the Destiny program to catalog and circulate materials, no one is to use the old OPAC system. Accessing the library computer database (Online Public Access Catalog) after Nov. 24 could cause the data to become corrupt. Teachers/students should not use the OPAC icon either in the media center or from other computers. Mrs. Childers will be the only one able to check books in or out. Students or staff should not drop books off in the library if Mrs. Childers is not there, and Mrs. Childers must check books out herself. In order to check out a book, a student must have one to exchange during the transition time, which may be until after the Holidays.

8. If you have not gone on-line and filled out your Criminal Background Check form, you have until December 14.

9. The Holiday Door Committee will be judging doors on Friday, December 4th in the afternoon.

10. Now SIT minutes can be found on Speas website and on the shared volume. Many thanks to Ms. Dagenbach for serving as our secretary.

11. If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.
Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)

I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.
George Carlin (1937 - 2008)

The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)

Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989)