AM Announcements: January 11

AM Announcements
January 11, 2010

1. Today is Day 83.

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:

Monday: January 11
Interim Reports go home
Access Training - 8:30-4:00 - Ms. Marston off-campus
LWS Education Committee - 4:00-5:30 - Career Center Conference Room - Reichert off-campus
H1N1 Shots available downtown - 7:00 AM - 7:00 PM

Tuesday: January 12
Staff Meeting - 2:40-4:00
A's and Bees Tutoring - 6:00-8:00
School Board meeting - 6:00 PM - Speas recognized as a Signature School - (Mincer, Linville, Miller, Powell and Reichert)

Wednesday: January 13
Reichert off-campus all day

Thursday: January 14
Reichert off-campus aall day
Elementary Principals' meeting - 7:15-12:00 - Ms. Powell off-campus

Friday: January 15
EOQ testing begin - Grade 5 - Science
Move Meeting - 8:00-9:00 - Room #169 - Reichert and Powell off-campus
SolEd. Meeting - 3:00-5:00 - Reichert off-campus

4. Upcoming Calendar Items:

a. 01/15-01/22 - EOQ Testing
b. 01/18 - No School - Martin Luther King Holiday
c. 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. H1N1 Flu Shots for Employees, Retirees, and Dependents who are covered by State Health Plan are available  today from 7:30 AM until 7:00 PM at the Administrative Center - 3rd Floor Auditorium. Please bring your insurance card. No Registration is required. Children under 10 must see their doctor for shots. Dependents between 10 and 17 must have a parent present to receive a flu shot. Employees and dependents not covered by Insurance may pay $15.00 for the shot. No credit cards will be accepted.

7. I will be out this week on Wednesday and Thursday. Ms Powell will cover things during my absence.

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

9. As teachers need more boxes for packing, just ask Mr. Ireland. He will provide them.
10. Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.

Mark B. Cohen

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act III

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost (1874 - 1963), The Road Not Taken

The road to hell is paved with adverbs.
Stephen King (1947 - )