AM Announcements - January 28

AM Announcements
January 28, 2010

1. Today is Day 95.

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 28
Parent Conference - 10:00-11:00 - Powell/Reichert/Bigham

Friday: January 29
Zone 5/6 Advisory Council Meeting - 7:30-9:00 - Brunson Elem. - Ms. Clodfelter and Reichert off-campus
Box Tops for Education due

4. Upcoming Calendar Items:
a. 02/01- Report Cards go home
b. 02/02 - SIT meets
c. 02/05 - Honor Roll Assembly
d. 02/12 - Pastries for Grandparents

5. CERTL applications are available from Ms. Rhodes. 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. Water for Hatian Relief will be collected through tomorrow. You can also donate money through Ms. Jewell's class's "penny" campaign. I heard today that for every dollar donated to the Red Cross, $.50 goes to food, $.30 goes to medicines and medical supplies and the remaining $.20 goes to logistics and distribution. That's getting a lot from a single dollar!

8. Student Council is collecting Pasta this month for Samaritan Ministries. There is a box located in Room 3. They are also asking for staff participation in the talent show. If you would like to sign-up please notify Ms. Cathy Smith or Ms. Fletcher. What is your secret talent displayed only for family or friends?

9. As of today I have only received retention letters from two (6) teachers. That leaves eighteen (14) more to come. Remember that they are due to me by Friday so I can sign them and we can get them copied and back to you to place in report cards. The letter(s) can be found on the Shared Volume. Please refer to previous days postings for the links you need to access them.

10. Don't forget to sign up for your review conference A schedule has been placed on the bulletin board in the lounge.

11. Ms. Clodfelter and I will be off-campus tomorrow morning from 7:30-9:00 at a Zone 5/6 Advisory Council meeting at Brunson Elementary.
 
12.  Now is the time to assess your students' second quarter performance and determine what needs to be done differently. SIT will be dealing with this issue on Tuesday. Remember in providing input to SIT, determine what you will change to assist your struggling students before you determine what others need to change to assist theirs.

13. Congratualtions to Ms. Goliszek and her class for the job they did participating in the Writing Wiki with the Department of Technology. Emory was very happy and impressed. It's great to see our technology classes in action.

14. Please keep Nurse Ginny and her family in your thoughts and prayers. Her father is hospitalized in Danville due to a serious stroke.

15. Don't you wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence? There's one marked 'Brightness,' but it doesn't work.

Gallagher

I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
J. D. Salinger (1919 - )

The entire economy of the Western world is built on things that cause cancer.
From the 1985 movie "Bliss"

Communism is like one big phone company.
Lenny Bruce (1923 - 1966)