AM Announcements - January 22

AM Announcements
January 22, 2010

1. Today is Day 91.

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 22
EOQ testing ends
Dollar Dress Down Day

4. Upcoming Calendar Items:
a. 01/25 - No School - RS Day for staff
b. 01/26 - Technology Staff-Development
c. 01/29 - Box Tops for Education due
d. 02/01 - Report Cards go home
e. 02/02 - SIT meets
f. 02/05 - Honor Roll Assembly

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. We are counting on all our staff members supporting the effort to donate 5000 gallons of water to the American Red Cross. It will make a tremendous difference in the lives of the Haitian people. Make sure that you remind your students that the only water we can accept is unopened water purchased from a store. They cannot fill up a bottle and bring it.

8. Please notify all Safety Patrol members to turn in their badges and belts to Ms. Powell by 12:00 PM tomorrow.

9. Please remember to stay in your classroom at the end of the day until the bell has rung for your grade levels. The bell for K-2 is at 2:15 and for 3-5 is at 2:20.

10. More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.

Woody Allen (1935 - ), My Speech to the Graduates

I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place.
Steven Wright (1955 - )

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.
Charles Wadsworth