AM Announcements - January 29

AM Announcements
January 29, 2010

1. Today is Day 96.

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 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. Today is the last day for water donation for Haiti. The water will be picked up and begin its journey to the Haitian people. Ms. Jewell's class is still collecting money however if you choose to donate.

8. Here is the latest from Nurse Ginny about her dad.

"Hi, just a note to let you know what is happening, Daddy had a good evening yesterday, around 5 this am, he had another mini stroke, by the time I got there he was alert and talking, I know the inevitable is pending, anyway. I will be there tomorrow after 10:00, we have a meeting @ 09:00, If anything were to occur, I'll call. thanks

9. Retention letters are due to me today.

10. Don't forget to sign up for your review conference.

11. Ms. Clodfelter and I will be off-campus this morning from 7:30-9:00 at a Zone 5/6 Advisory Council meeting at Brunson Elementary.

12. Currently the only weather related announcement from WS/FCS is that all extracurricular activities for today, tomorrow and Sunday have been cancelled. We will notify you as soon as we receive any additional information.

13. Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.
Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)

Partying is such sweet sorrow.
Robert Byrne

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.
Hector Berlioz (1803 - 1869)

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894), "The Poet at the Breakfast-Table", 1872