AM Announcements: January 08

AM Announcements
January 08, 2010

1. Today is Day 82.

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:

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. CERTL applications are available from Ms. Rhodes. The parents must fill out an application and it must include a written teacher recommendation letter from the teacher. The application deadline is February 18.

6. In the upcoming weeks around January 18, the last 12 parking spaces in the front lot from the gym to the drain at the cafeteria will be blocked off for about a week while they make connections between the building site and the water mains. We will lose approximately 12-13 parking spaces. Individuals who normally park there should park on the lower lot along Polo Rd. between the middle and far entrances. We will send out a reminder based upon the progress they make. The tentative start date for this is January 18.

7. According to the construction plan, the drainage work will be completed this week and next week they will install the playground equipment and prepare the site for children. Also look for the pod to be brought on site in about two weeks. It will not be serviceable until the first part of March at the earliest. As soon as we can move in we will begin the process one room at a time. We are having a construction dumpseter brought in to help in the removal of everything you are going to throw away. Boxes have been requested from several sources and as soon as they arrive, it would be a good idea to start tossing the stuff you don't use and packing the stuff you do. Remember that you can't throw out school  purchased equipment, supplies and materials without following a process. Please see me if you want to discard anything purchased with school funds.

8. Books for the African Book Project can be dropped off in the front lobby. Please encourage your students to participate.

9. The warehouse is sending over a skid of boxes for us to use packing for the move. These will be distributed among the teachers in the back building. When you are ready to pack, let Mr. Ireland know and he will tape the boxes for you. These boxes will be recycled throughout the course of the move so we don't wantr to damage them.

10. Does anyone have a copy of the book 365 Penguins? Ms. Hoots is in need of a copy.

12. Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
Bill Cosby (1937 - )

No good deed goes unpunished.
Clare Booth Luce (1903 - 1987)

When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
William Wrigley Jr. (1861 - 1932)

There are two ways to pass a hurdle: leaping over or plowing through... There needs to be a monster truck option.
Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content #1356, 03-10-09