AM Announcements - January 15

AM Announcements

January 15, 2010

1. Today is Day 87.

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: 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. You can join them in donating books as well.

7. Ms. Powell and I will be off-campus this morning at a Move meeting from 8:00-9:00 AM.

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. The following Student Council Members will need to meet in the front lobby tomorrow at 10:45 a.m. They will be returning back to school no later than 12:45 p.m.
Avery Deney, Cameron Parker, Nikeyta Parker, Christopher McClurkin, Kaycee Adkins, John McClurkin,
Sakura Walters, Caryn Fletcher, Christa Fletcher, Chloe Fletcher, Tianna Wilson, Tierra Wilson, Deyani Cole, Jayshon Cornelius, Daniela Hernandez, Jerry Hernandez,Damani Campbell-Hughes
11. Monday, January 18 is Martin Luther King holiday. Therefore, all classified teacher assistants will get an hour early release today eaving 30 minutes early. Mr. Ireland, Mr. Cokley, Mrs. Higgins, Ms. Fletcher & Ms. Rhodes will take their hour on Friday, 1/15.

12. Please remind your students that there is no school on Monday.
 
13. Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)

There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.
Franklin P. Adams (1881 - 1960)

Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)

No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
William Jennings Bryan (1860 - 1925)