AM Announcements - April 27

AM Announcements
April 27, 2010

1. Today is Day 147.

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:

Tuesday: April 27
Corporate Volunteers Breakfast - 7:45-9:00 - Reichert and Marston off-campus
U.S. Census on campus - 8:00-5:00 - gym
Field Trip - SBS class - Children's Museum - 9:00-1:30
EOG training - 1:00-2:00
Marzano Staff-development - 2:40-4:00
ESL Mind Workout - 5:30-7:30 (No A's and Bees tutoring)

Wednesday: April 28
U.S. Census on campus - 8:00-5:00 - gym
EOG training - 8:00-9:00
Field Trip - Grade 4 - YMCA

Thursday: April 29
U.S. Census on campus - 8:00-5:00 - gym
Extend2 training - 8:00-9:00
Field trip - Grade 2 - All a Flutter Flutterfly Farm
Reichert off-campus all day

Friday: April 30
U.S. Census on campus - 8:00-5:00 - gym
Dollar Dress Down Day
Spring Fling - 5:00-8:00 (Faculty) 5:30-7:30 (Students and parents)
Reichert off-campus all day

3. Upcoming Calendar Items:
a. 05/04 - SIT Meeting
b. 05/04-05/06 - DIBELS Testing
c. 05/07 - Second on-demand writing sample due in the Moodle
d. 05/10 - Field Day
e. 05/14 - EOG testing begins

4. Our last Marzano training is this afternoon from 2:40-4:00. It will be followed by an update on our allotment for the 2010-2011 school year.

5. Starting today, the US Census will be here providing training to census takers who will be going out into the neighborhoods around Speas and taking census information from those houselhold which have not responded. They will be in the gym every day through Friday.

6. Don't forget to turn in your pledge card for the UNCF drive. The current total is $675.00. Remember that the drive ends May 21, 2010.

7. Review Conferences for today are: Say - 9:30; Mincer - 10:10; Goliszek - 12:15

8. Tonight is our ESL Mind Workout. There will be a special introduction to this on Morning Broadcast today.

9. Continue to think and discuss quesitons about taking sick leave in hourly increments. We will try and answer your questions at our next faculty meeting.

10. Remember to review data in your PLC meetings as we work to complete our needs assessment for our Prioritized Title-1 Plan. With the budget in turmoil our decisions about which programs and personnel to fun with Title-1 money become even more critical.

11. Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.
Errol Flynn (1909 - 1959)

Leave it to a girl to take the fun out of sex discrimination.
Bill Watterson (1958 - ), Calvin in "Calvin and Hobbes"

The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.
Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)