AM Announcements - February 22

AM Announcements
February 22, 2010

1. Today is Day 106.

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 22
Access Testing for LEP students continues
AR Incentive Sessions - K/1 - 8:00-8:45 AM - gym
Interim Progress Reports go home

Tuesday: February 23
Access Testing for LEP students continues
AR Incentive Sessions - 4/5 - 8:00-8:45 AM gym
Staff-development - Marzano - 2:40-4:00

Wednesday: February 24:
Access Testing for LEP students continues
Fun with Fiddles presentation - Kindergarten - 9:00 AM - gym
Title-1 Parent Involvement Audit  - 8:30-9:30 AM - Ms. Powell
AR Incentive Sessions - 2/3 - 8:00-8:45 AM - gym

Thursday: February 25
Access Testing for LEP students continues
On Campus field trip - Grade 2 - Museum of Anthropology - 9:00-10:00

Friday: February 26
Access Testing for LEP students continues
Box Tops for Education Due
Dollar Dress Down Day
African Book Project comes to a close

4. Upcoming Calendar Items:

a. 02/27 - Title-1 Comprehensive Needs Assessment Training - 9:00-1:00 - Miller and Heyland attending
b. 03/01 - JanieCostello meets with Kindergarten after school
c. 03/02 - SIT
d. 03/04 - Sneed Collard author visit
e. 03/04 - Mary Starling Concert - Fifth grade
f. 03/05 - Fouth Grade Writing Assessment completed
g. 03/05 - Book Fair Preview
h. 03/09 - Really Big night
i. 03/30 - Spring Break begins

5. There is an AR Incentive session in the gym this morning from 8:00-8:45. Specialists should be sure to be there to assist.

6. Books for the African Book Project can be dropped off in the front lobby until February 26.

7. Review Conferences today: None

8. You can still sign-up in the mailroom to take food or groceries or a meal to Rose Rusch and Amber. Please see Ms. Higgins if you wish to donate Annual Leave days to Rose. Your support is greatly appreciated.

9. Please remember to send your interim reports home in this afternoon's Monday packets.

10. Over the weekend it was brought to my attention by Ms. Dagenbach and Ms. Goliszek that NCWISE Gradebook was down for maintenance. Since it was not set to come back on line until this morning, we will send out Progress Reports tomorrow. We will aslo send out an Alert Now message this afternoon telling parents to expect them then.

11. Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
Margaret Mead (1901 - 1978)

The best way out is always through.
Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), What Is Man? (1906)

Walking isn't a lost art: one must, by some means, get to the garage.
Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)