AM Announcements - January 05

AM Announcements
January 05, 2010

1. Today is Day 79.

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: January 05
Joint Principals' meeting - 7:30-12:00 - Reichert off-campus
SIT - 2:40-4:00
A's and Bees Tutoring - 6:00-8:00
Meet Ms. Heyland and Ms. Logan - 6:00-8:00

Wednesday: December 16
No items at this time

Thursday: December 17
Job Site meeting - 9:00-10:00 - Reichert and Powell

Friday: December 18
No items at this tiime

4. Upcoming Calendar Items:
a. 01/11 - Interim reports go home
b. 01/12 - Staff meeting
c. 01/15-01/22 - EOQ Testing
d. 01/18 - No School - Martin Luther King Holiday
e. 01/25 - No School - RS Day for staff

5. If you are a teacher in grades 2-5 and have not called two parents and invited them to bring their students to A's and Bees tutoring, please do so this afternoon.

6. There will be a SIT meeting today at 2:40-4:00 PM. Please give any items to your representatives.

7. Ms. Alston began Jump Rope for Heart yesterday. It will continue until the event scheduled for February 18. Students took a flyer home yesterday. Please remind them that they are not to solicit contibutions door to door unless they are accompanied by their parent or guardian.

8. The results of the vote on taking January 25 of will be announced in tomorrow's AM Announcements. If you haven't voted, you have until noon today.

Click here to take survey

9. Books for the African Book Project can be dropped off at the box in the lobby. Please encourage your students to participate.

10. Some classrooms cannot access the higher numbered channels on their TV's. If you are one of them, please let Ms. Childers know by sending her an e-mail today. Right now the only room we are certain of is room #14, Ms. Say's class.

11. The weather suggestions for outdoor play/recess say that temperatures between 32 and 90 degrees should be "safe" for children. The temperature today, Monday 1/4, is 32 or 33 currently, but the windchill is 19 or 20. Your discretion should be used in these circumstances.
 
12. Teachers who participated in the step challenge should return their pedometers and step challenge recordings to the office by Wednesday afternoon. Behealthy School Kids staff will stop by on Thursday to pick up these items. Please use the bag for the pedometers and envelope for the recordings that Behealthy School Kids delivered to the office before the break. Thank you!

13. Remember that Ms. Childers has 10 "Census 2010" kits in the library available for teachers to check out. Just let her know if you are interested.

14. I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.
Voltaire (1694 - 1778)

Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.
Joseph Wood Krutch (1893 - 1970)

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
William James (1842 - 1910)

Confusion is always the most honest response.
Marty Indik