AM Announcements - December 16

AM Announcements
December 16, 2009

1. Today is Day 75.

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: December 16
Spirit Week continues - Wacky Tacky Day
Assistant Principals' meeting - Powell off-campus
Classified staff leaves at 2:45

Thursday: December 17
Construction Jobsite meeting @ Speas - 9:00-10:00 - Reichert and Powell
Student Council Nursing Home field trip - 9:00-10:00
Spirit Week continues - Hawaiian Beach Day - no jeans
Holiday parties - 1:00-2:00
Classified staff leaves at 2:45

Friday: December 18
Dollar Dress Down Day
SolEd meeting - Reichert off-campus - 3:00-5:00
Student Council Holiday Trip - 9:00-11:00
Classified Staff leaves at 2:45
Mr. Ireland leaves at 12:00
Ms. Higgins leaves at 12:30
Ms. Fletcher leaves at 2:30
Mr. Cokley leaves at 4:00
The building closes at 4:00

4. Upcoming Calendar Items:
a. 01/4-01/29 - DIBELS testing window
b. 01/5 - SIT meeting
c. 01/12 - Staff meeting
d. 01/15-01/22 - EOQ Testing
e. 01/25 - No School - RS Day for staff

5. Be Healthy School Kids Announcement:


The 10-week step challenge will be ending this Friday December 18th. All participating classes please send your step counting activity book and pedometers to the office at the end of the of the school day on Friday for pick-up by Behealthy School Kids staff. Please make sure the your name and room # is printed on the book. The class with the most steps/miles will receive a pair of gold shoes as a reward. Again, thank you for participating in the challenge.
 
6. I will be off-campus this morning while my wife is having surgery. I will be in the office following its completion and her arrival in her room. I will also be off campus tomorrow morning when she is discharged so I can take her home and get her settled there.

7. Ms. Powell will be off-campus this morning at an Assistant Principals' meeting. She will be gone from 9:0

8. Student Council items:
a. Student Council Members need to come to Room 3 on the following days to prepare for our Nursing Home Visit:

b. Spirit Week committee members need to report each day to the cafeteria at 1:45 p.m. for judging:
Tierra Wilson , Chloe Fletcher, Kelis Cochrane, Jamore Brown, Nikeyta Parker, Tyriese Kimbrough

c. Thanks to all the staff members who donated items for the month of November to the Samaritan Ministries. This month we are collecting the following items: Dish Towels, Bib Aprons, or Men's Warm Winter Gloves. We will deliver these items on Friday, December 18, 2009.

d. Today, Wednesday, December 16, 2009 - All Student Council Members will need to meet in the gym at 1:15 p.m. with their things to practice music for our Nursing Home Visit.

9. Readings of "The Night Before Christmas" today: Falor - 12:30; Miller 1:30

10. Please keep Chris Say and her family in your thoughts and prayers. Chris has gone to West Virginia to be with her daughter and grandaughter. Little Daisy is suffering from pneumonia and whooping cough and is hospitalized there. We have no further word on Ann Smith's son at this time.

11. Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians.

Chester Bowles (1901 - 1986)

I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 - 1951)

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.
Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)

A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.
Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (1908 - 1972), "Keep the Faith, Baby!", 1967