AM Announcements - April 22

AM Announcements
April 22, 2010

1. Today is Day 144.

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:

Thursday: April 22
Earth Day
Curriculum Coordinators' meeting - Marston off-campus - 8:00-3:30
Principals' Webinar from DPI - 11:30-2:00 - Reichert off-campus
Friday: April 23
Allotment Conference with Toni Bigham - 2:30-3:00 - Reichert off-campus

3. Upcoming Calendar Items:
a. 4/27-4/30 - US Census at Speas in the gym. PE classes will be outside
b. 4/ 27- EOG Training
c. 4/27 - Mind Work Out
d. 4/28 - EOG Training
e. 4/30 - Dollar Dress Down Day

4. I will be off campus today from 11:45-1:30. Dr. Martin has requested all principals attend a webinar downtown.

5. Next week, the US Census will be at Speas providing assistance to the community. They will be in the gym Tuesday, 4/27 through Friday, 4/30 from 8:00-5:00. PE classes will be held outside or in the classroom if it rains.

6. Don't forget to turn in your pledge card for the UNCF drive. Our current total is $655.00. Remember that the drive ends May 21, 2010.

7. Review Conferences for today are: Falor - 8:55 and Johnson - 10:50.

8. Classroom Teachers, please remember to send me the number of students whom you are very certain will be retained at the end of the year. I need them by this afternoon as I meet with Ms. Bigham tomorrow.

9. There is no tutoring this afternoon due to document camera training. If you have students who were planning on staying we need to contact home to make sure they are picked up.

10. Thanks to Ms. Bushey and Ms. Clodfelter for doing such a wonderful job with the Volunteer Luncheon yesterday. Our volunteers are essential to the operation of the school and the success of our students. Thanks for help to make them feel appreciated.

11. Ms. Marston will be off-campus all day at a Curriculum Coordinators' meeting.

12. Today is Earth Day!

13. Children are all foreigners.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.
George C. Marshall (1880 - 1959)

Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 12