AM Announcements - March 08

AM Announcements
March 08, 2010

1. Today is Day 116.

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: March 08
ACCESS Testing - Central office Team - Room #3.
Book Fair
Mary Starling Concert - Grade 5 - 11:00 AM
Partners in Math Training - 4:00-6:00

Tuesday: March 09
Book Fair
Really Big Night
No A's and Bees Tutoring

Wednesday: March 10
Book Fair
Leadership Winston-Salem Education Day - Reichert off-campus all day
Thursday: March 11
Book Fair
Elementary Principals' meeting - 7:15-12:00 - Reichert off-campus

Friday: March 12
Book Fair

4.  Upcoming Calendar Items:
a. 03/15 - Interim Reports go home
b. 03/16 - Technology Staff Development
c. 03/22-26 - Third Quarter testing
d. 03/23 - Student Council Talent Show
e. 03/26 - Box Tops for Education collected
f. 03/26 - Dollar Dress Down Day
g. 03/30 - Spring Break begins

5. We had a good meeting last Friday as we reveiwed the proposed budget reductions and their impact both on individuals and Speas. If you have questions about the sheet that was passed out, please feel free to ask for clarification or explanation.

6. News from Student Council:

a. The Speas American Idol Talent Show would love to have staff participation. Please notfiy Mr. Cokley, Ms. Mincer, or Mrs. Fletcher if you would like to participate.

b. Please encourage your students to attend the show. The admission cost is a $1.00. There will be a hotdog and hamburger dinner before the show.

7. There are boxes in the front lobby for donations of cereal to Crisis Control Ministry. We will be collecting full unopened boxes throughout the month.

8. Rooms 21-28 should be in the final stages of packing and purging in preparation for their move to the pod which is 3 weeks away. If you need additional boxes, please let Mr. Ireland know so he can bring them to your room. All other classes in rooms 1-6A and 9-20 should be working on packing as well. You will be moving out immediately following the last day of school. A construction dumpster has been placed by the fence outside the door at the end of the hallway at rooms 27-28. Purge everything you haven't used in several years and toss it over the fence into the dumpster. It has been placed there just for your use.

9. The team from Central Office will be doing ACCESS testing in room 3 today. If you need anything in room 3 please get it prior to 8:15 and after 2:00.

10. Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.
Doug Larson

It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.
Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990)

Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.
William Feather (1908 - 1976)

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.
Lord Acton, Letter to Mary Gladstone, 1881