AM Announcements - November 03

AM Announcements
November 03, 2009

1. Today is Day 48.

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: November 03
Joint Principals Meeting - 7:30-12:00 - Reichert off-campus
SIT meeting - 2:40-4:00
A's and Bees Tutoring

Wednesday: November 04
Little Symphony of Forsyth County - 9:00-9:45 - Grades K-5 - gym
Reichert off-campus 11:30-on
CogAT Testing - 8:00-12:00 - Grade 2 and select Grade 5

Thursday: November 05
Student Council Nursing Home visit
CogAT Testing - 8:00-12:00 - Grade 2 and select Grade 5

Friday: November 06
CogAT Testing - 8:00-12:00 - Grade 2 and select Grade 5

4. Upcoming Calendar Items:
a. 11/11 - Veteran's Day - No School (Holiday for staff)
b. 11/12 - Make It, Take It Night - Reading - 6:00
c. 11/12 - PTA Council Dinner honoring Teachers of the Year - Village Inn - 6:30-8:30
d. 11/13 - Honor Roll Assembly - 1:00 PM
e. 11/16 - Interim Reports go home
f. 11/24 - Dollar Dress Down Day
g. 11/25-27 - Thanksgiving Holiday
h. 12/01 - Winter Concert
i. 12/04 - Dollar Dress Down Day
j. 12/04 - Speas Spelling Bee
k. 12/05 - Holiday Open House - The Reicherts

5. Second through fifth grade teachers, have you made your phone invitations for A's and Bees tonight?

6. I will be off-campus tomorrow afternoon beginning at 11:30.

7. Representatives of Mt. Tabor High School will be here on Friday morning to present Speas with over 1000 books. These books have been donated by the Mt. Tabor HS staff and students.

8. Student Council Information:

* The Student Council will be collecting items each month for Samaritan Ministries. If you would like to contribute there will be a box in room 3. This months items are: Sugar, Soap (Sample Size), or Disposable Razors.
* Thanksgiving Can Food Drive Begins: Monday, November 9, 2009 - Friday, November 13, 2009 - Please take a look at the flyer that is going home on Monday to see what items your grade level will be collecting.
* Student Council has a Nursing Home Visit on Thursday, November 5, 2009.

9. I will be off-campus this morning from 7:30 AM-12:00 PM at Joint Principals' meeting.

10. There is a SIT meeting in the media center this afternoon at 2:40. Please remember to provide your representatives with input regarding lesson plan forms and issues that have been identified in the walk-through data.

11. A CD of Veterans Day activities has been placed in the media center. Please check with Ms. Childers if you would like to use it as we approach Veterans Day on November 11.

12. The Little Symphony of Forsyth County will be here on Wednesday to perform for our K-5 students in the gym from 9:00-9:45. Classes will be called by grade level once the symphony is set up and ready. Second grade classes will join the performance in progress when they have finished their CogAT testing. All second grade classes will enter the gym from the outside entrance by the dumpster. They should come in very quietly and sit down in the back.

13. Today is lunch out for all teachers and assistants in grades K-1.

14. Please keep Kristie Laney in your thoughts and prayers. She had emergency surgery on Sunday and is recuperating at Thomasville Medical Center. The results of the surgery were positive, but the length of her recovery has not as yet been determined.

15. What we call 'Progress' is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis (1859 - 1939)

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
Rita Mae Brown

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon

Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Emma