AM Announcements - November 10

AM Announcements
November 10, 2009

1. Today is Day 53.

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 10
A's and Bees Tutoring - 6:00-8:00 PM
Classified Staff leaves 30 minutes early
ABC/AYP Workshop - 8:00-11:00 - Reichert off-campus

Wednesday: November 11
Veterans' Day - Holiday for all students and staff - No School

Thursday: November 12
Make It, Take It Night - 6:00-7:00 PM
PTA Council Dinner - Village Inn - Ms., Corely, Ms. Larson and Dr. Reichert in attendance 6:30-8:30

Friday: November 13
Thanksgiving Canned Food Drive ends
Honor Roll Assembly - 1:00PM

4. Upcoming Calendar Items:
a. 11/16 - Interim Reports go home
b. 11/24 - Dollar Dress Down Day
c. 11/25-27 - Thanksgiving Holiday
d. 12/01 - Winter Concert
e. 12/04 - Dollar Dress Down Day
f. 12/04 - Speas Spelling Bee
g. 12/05 - Holiday Open House - The Reicherts

5. Please turn off your SmartBoards when they are not in use. Bulbs for the data projector are only designed for approximately 1000 hours. There is not sense wasting time on the bulb when the board is not in use. Bulbs cost around $300 each.

6. I have an ABC/AYP data review meeting today from 8:00-11:00 with the folks in Testing and Accountability. I will be off-campus from 7:30-11:30.

7. 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 refer to the flyer that went home last Monday to see what items your grade level is collecting.

8. 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.

9. If you're not doing anything the night of December 11, we could use your help with the Student Council Sleepover.

10. We want to welcome Ms. Crystal Heyland to our staff today. She will be our new Kindergarten teacher. She is spending time getting to know the students and routines while we free up her classroom. Ms. Marleen Logan will be serving as her assistant.

11. I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
John Cleese (1939 - )

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)

An executive is a person who always decides; sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
John H. Patterson

If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.'
Jeff Foxworthy