AM Announcements - May 11

AM Announcements
May 11, 2010

1. Today is Day 158.

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: May 11
SIT Meeting 2:40-4:00
A's and Bees Tutoring - Last Night - 6:00-8:00 PM

Wednesday: May 12
Used Book Sale - 8:30-1:30 PM

Thursday: May 13
Elementary Principals' meeting - 7:15-12:00 - Reichert off-campus
4th grade Field Trip to Hiddenite - 7:00-1:30 PM
Used Book Sale - 8:30-1:30 PM

Friday: May 14
Dollar Dress Down Day
EOG - Background information
Used Book Sale - 8:30-1:30 PM
Book Distribution - Dan Arial (Polo Park Recreation Center) - 9:00

Saturday: May 15
Student Council Yard and Used Book Sale - 7:30-1:00 PM

3. Upcoming Calendar Items:
a. 05/17-05/21 - EOG Testing
b. 05/24 - Interim Reports go home
c. 05/24-05/28 - Remediation Period for Level I/II students
d. 05/25 - Web Page migration session to School Wires
e. 05/26 - Web Page migration session to School Wires
f. 05/28 - Dollar Dress Down Day
g. 05/28 - Box Tops for Education due
h. 05/31 - Memorial Day - No School

4. A very important e-mail was sent out yesterday around 5:00 PM to all staff. If you plan to attend the SIT meeting, if at all possible, please take a moment to review the information before coming.

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 $740.00. Remember that the drive ends May 21, 2010.

7. Bus letters for your students for 2010-11 have been printed and placed in your boxes. Please send them home today. Students are to give them to their parents for review and return them if corrections need to be made. There are places where they can put their corrections. These indicate where the bus stop will be for the next year. If students don't bring back changes, they will be assigned to the stop listed and it will not be able to be changed until mid-September. It pays to take care of this now. The letters contain both English and Spanish translations.

8. Ms. Powell is recovering from oral surgery yesterday and will be off campus all day. Please keep this in mind when making requests from the office.

9. Remember to keep a list of students who return their Parent Surveys.

10. A number of important issues will be on today's SIT. All staff members are invited to attend all SIT meetings. Today's would be a very good one to sit in on as SIT struggles to determine our structure for next year and how to allocate funding and personnel for 2010-11. As a result, this meeting may run longer than normal.

11. The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.
Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), Illiterate Digest (1924), "Helping the Girls with their Income Taxes"

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
James F. Byrnes (1879 - 1972)

A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.
Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988), Time Enough for Love, 1978

We are none of us infallible--not even the youngest of us.
W. H. Thompson