AM Announcements - January 12

AM Announcements
January 12, 2010

1. Today is Day 84.

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

7. Tonight Speas will be recognized at the Board of Education meeting for being selected as a Piedmont Triad Signature School. Ms. Linville, Ms. Miller, Ms. Mincer and Ms. Powell and I will be in attendance. It is supposed to be the first thing opn the agenda right at 6:00 PM. It will be televised on Cable 2.

8. Since both Ms. Powell and I will be downtown, I need a volun teer to be here to monitor A's and Bees tutoring at 6:00 PM. If you can help out until I can get here, just let me know. Thanks.

 9. The fourth and fifth grade AG classes will travel to Hanes Midddle School today for a tour.

10. I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Charles De Gaulle (1890 - 1970)

Today you can go to a gas station and find the cash register open and the toilets locked. They must think toilet paper is worth more than money.
Joey Bishop (1918 - )

We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680), Maximes (1678)

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything - or nothing.
Nancy Astor (1879 - 1964)