AM Announcements
February 08, 2010
1. Today is Day 98.
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:
Monday: February 08
Access Testing for LEP students continues
Interim Reports go home
ESL Principals' meeting - 3:30-5:00 - Reichert off-campus
LWS Education Day Committee meeting 4:30-6:00 - Reichert off-campus
Tuesday: February 09
Access Testing for LEP students continues
Staff Meeting - 2:40-4:00
A's and Bees Tutoring
Wednesday: February 10
Access Testing for LEP students continues
Thursday: February 11
Access Testing for LEP students continues
Student Council Nursing Home visit - 9:00-10:00 AM
Elementary Principals' meeting - 7:15-12:00 - Reichert off-campus
Friday: February 12
Access Testing for LEP students continues
Pastries for Parents - 10:30-12:30
Honor Roll Assembly
4. Upcoming Calendar Items:
a. 02/15 - No School - Presidents' Day - RS
b. 02/24 - Title-1 Parent Involvement Audit
c. 02/26 - Dollar Dress Down Day
d. 02/26 - Box Tops for Education Due
e. 02/27 - Title-1 Comprehensive Needs Assessment Training - 9:00-1:00
5. CERTL applications are available from Ms. Rhodes. The application deadline is February 18. Should you receive any applications from parents, please note the address on the inside front page of thapplication. They should be sent to that address.
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. The Honor Roll assembly, originally scheduled for last Friday has been moved to Friday, February 12. The time remains at 1:00.
8. Review Conferences today: 10:10 - Merrill, 10:50 - Johnson
9. We have received the OK to begin spending our additional allotment of Title-1 funds as of tomorrow. Ms. Higgins is in the process of ordering the SmartBoard for Ms. Heyland's class ($3,791); the touch screen for Ms. Holman's class ($272); math tutoring materials for Ms. Spaventa ($2,000); New books for the library ($3,624); and eight document cameras to complete the deployment in all classrooms ($4,654). That leaves approximately $18,500 to be spent on tutoring for students who do not qualify for Grade 3/5 at-risk tutoring. Therefore, I am in need of individuals who would be willing to work after school Monday-Thursday providing homework and tutoring assistance to students in grades K-5. We will not be able to offer snacks as Title-1 will not pay for them, but we can offer the homework assistance so badly needed and provide time for students to use SuccessMaker via the Mobile lab. We would also like to open up tutoring on Saturday mornings. We will discuss the "how" of all of these initiatives tomorrow at Staff Meeting.
11. There will be a 4 hour Title-1 Comprehensive Needs Assessment training here in Winston-Salem on Saturday, February 27 from 9:00-1:00. Interested members of the SIT team should let me know if they would like to attend. It pays a $75 stipend.
12. I am in need of someone to cover A's and Bees Tutoring tomorrow night. If you are interested in helping out, please let me know.
13. There is a sign-up sheet in the mailroom to take food or groceries or a meal to Rose and Amber. Ms. Clodfelter will cover this coming week, February 8. Below is a list of foods that they eat. Rose also needs non-clumpy cat litter for her 3 precious cats. Thanks for your support of Rose and Amber.
Rose:
Fruit, especially apples and oranges
Juices
Canned greens
Vegetables
Yogurt
Skim milk
Jello
Raisin bran
Other high fiber grains
*No spices please
Amber:
Bananas
Green beans
White rice (boil-in-bag)
Creamy peanut butter
Honey nut Cheerios
Franchetta cheese pizza
Linguine with alfredo sauce
Trix yogurt
Non-meat spaghetti sauce
Broccoli/cheese packets
Sargento cheese snax
Watermelon and strawberries
12. It is true that I was born in Iowa, but I can't speak for my twin sister.
Abigail Van Buren (1918 - ), (Dear Abby)
I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967)
If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
Ted Turner
Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
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4 comments:
Many of the laptops are not holding a charge any more, especially if they are used more than once during the day. This may make using them for tutoring difficult. Would it be possible to use some of this money for replacement batteries for them as well as headphones? You cannot do math successmaker without hearing it and it makes it very distracting for kids sitting next to each other.
We will check with Title-1 first thing Monday morning and see if we can reallocate a portion of the funding associated with tutoring and apply it to batteries and headphones. We have almost $16,000 designated to cover tutoring. That number was determined including the entire month of January. Since the money was not available to spend in Janauary, the amount we designated for that month could well be applied to the batteries and head phones. It would be more than enough to cover them. If not we will have to look for another way to pay for them, perhaps from our money market fund.
2 things...
1. Would it be possible to purchase headsets for the laptop cart in addition to the batteries. I am not sure that is the entire problem with the charging problem but it would help.
2. Rose has asked us to ask everyone if they have any days they would be willing to donate to her. She is completely out of sick days, leave days and I believe she said extended sik leave. She is not eligible for disablity until she has been out for 6 months so that hasn't kicked in yet either. Anything would be a help. She said that the folks from Ashley have said that she qualifies for this now unlike the last time when her disablity overlapped into the end of her times.
Thanks,
Cathy
1. We are exploring how we can purchase both the batetries and the headsets at this time.
2. We placed the information about Rose needing donated Annual Leave days earlier, but will put it back in. We checked with HR and they approved this. They had denied it last year but said that this year she meets the criteria.
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