AM Announcements - February 10

AM Announcements
February 10, 2010

1. Today is Day 100 (according to NCWISE). According to staff members eagerly anticipating HUNDREDS DAY, it is Day 99.

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:

Wednesday: February 10
Access Testing for LEP students continues
Construction meeting with the Architect - 1:30-2:30 - Powell and Reichert

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. We have until February 19.

7. Please turn in your names for the The Honor Roll assembly by today at 12:00 noon to Ms. Rhodes.

8. Review Conferences today: 9:30 - Heyland; 12:15 - Kelly

9. Please see Ms. Higgins if you wish to donate Annual Leave days to Rose.

10. 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  It pays a $75 stipend. At this point Ms. Miller has express interest in attending. You can join her if you wish. Just let me know by e-mail.

11. As was stated in yesterday's staff meeting, we are now half way through the year. We need to identify any problems that we aare facing and develop strategies to address them and enable students to progress. In other words "when your horse dies in the middle of the road, get off." Please submit a comment by clicking COMMENT at the bottom. This can be done anonymously if you don't feel comfortable using your name. Please submit your comment by 4:00PM today. Thanks for your thoughtful responses.

12. There is a sign-up sheet in the mailroom to take food or groceries or a meal to Rose and Amber. Thanks for your support.

13. At last night's Board of Education meeting, the board decided to use this coming Monday, February 15 as a student day. In that way, they were able to save a day of Spring Break. Our make-up days, barring in further bad weather, are February 15, June 9-10 and March 29. We are in the process of checking to see which staff-development offerings for that day have been cancelled, rescheduled or are going on as planned. As soon as we have that information, we will share it with you. According to the recorded message received last night. Parents who had activities previously planned for 2/15 should send in a note and their child's absence will be EXCUSED.

14. I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I've ever known.
Walt Disney (1901 - 1966)

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)

There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)

An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.
Dylan Thomas (1914 - 1953), in Constantine Fitzgibbon, Life of Dylan Thomas (1965)