AM Announcements - January 14

AM Announcements


January 14, 2010
1. Today is Day 86.
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:
Thursday: January 14
Reichert off-campus all day
Elementary Principals' meeting - 7:15-12:00 - Ms. Powell off-campus
All classified teacher assistants leave 30 minutes early
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
All classified teacher assistants leave 30 minutes early
Mr. Ireland leaves @ 1:00
Mr. Cokley leaves @ 5:00
Mrs. Higgins leaves @ 1:30
Ms. Fletcher leaves @ 3:00
Ms. Rhodes comes in @ 9:30
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. Dr. Reichert came through his surgery fine yesterday.  He is recovering at home and plans to be back aggravating us on Friday.

8. Tianna Wilson's self-portrait was printed in January's issue of Forsyth Family Magazine. Her artwork can be found on pg. 68 of the issue. We also have artwork from three students that Ms. Laney chose for the Salem College Art Exhibit. She picked Dante Wise (Miller), Taylor Thomas (Jewell), and Kyja Falks(Kooken). Their artwork will be displayed at the Salem College's Fine Arts Gallery from January 13th-February 3rd. There is a reception on Sunday January 31st at 3:00 PM.

9. We got the filing cabinets and table we discussed in the staff meeting yesterday. I dion't know when they will be delivered but I'll keep you informed. Please send me an e-mail if you were one of the requestors.

10. Please remember to be packing up and discarding any items you have not used in the past 3 years.  This especially applies to 5th, 4th, Ms. Smutek & Ms. Laney.

11.  Monday, January 18 is Martin Luther King holiday.  Therefore, all classified teacher assistants will get an hour early release beginning Thursday, 1/14 leaving 30 minutes early and Friday, 1/15 leaving 30 minutes early.  Mr. Ireland, Mr. Cokley, Mrs. Higgins, Ms. Fletcher & Ms. Rhodes will take their hour on Friday, 1/15.

12.  Today's Quotes:
Things are only impossible until they're not. Jean-Luc Picard, 'Star Trek: The Next Generation'

If God had really intended men to fly, he'd make it easier to get to the airport. George Winters

You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. John Ciardi (1916 - 1986)

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted. Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)