AM Announcements - April 28

AM Announcements
April 28, 2010

1. Today is Day 148.

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: 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. Special "Thanks" to Ms. Spaventa, Ms. Pfitzner, Ms. Chitty, Ms. Taylor and M.s Fletcher for all they did last night to make the ESL Mind Workout a huge success for our students and parents. From serving food to judging to running the show, their efforts really paid off! Great job.

5. Ms. Childers sent around information about the Scholastic Book Fairs Warehouse Sale. Below is additional information :

         Wednesday 05/12/2010 - Saturday 05/22/2010
          *PO Day* Wednesday - May 12th - 9a-7p
          Thursday & Friday May 13th-14th 9a-7p
          Monday-Friday May17th-21st 9a-5p
          Saturdays May 15th & May 22nd 9a-3p

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: Heyland - 9:00; Linville - 10:10; Kelly - 1:30

8. The following e-mail arrived yesterday from NCCAT. Any of our ILT's with 2 or 3 years experience may want to check this out.

Do you have talented 2nd and 3rd year teachers that you want to keep in the profession and in your school? Let NCCAT help you - at no cost to the teacher or your school! Please contact NCCAT Teacher Services at 800-922-0482 or Dr. Renee Coward at renee@nccat.org to register for this free, five-day residential seminar for your beginning teachers.

They pay for everything! Ask anyone who's been. It is marvelous. They even cover your sub.

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.When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)

I hate music, especially when it's played.
Jimmy Durante (1893 - 1980)

We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "You Never Can Tell" (1898), act I

People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom.
Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)