AM Announcements - May 20

AM Announcements

May 20, 2010

1. Today is Day 165.

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: May 20
EOG 3-5 - Math - Calculator Inactive test

Friday: May 21
EOG - Make-up testing

3. Upcoming Calendar Items:
a. 05/25 - Web Page migration session to School Wires
b. 05/26 - Web Page migration session to School Wires
c. 05/28 - Dollar Dress Down Day
d. 05/28 - Box Tops for Education due
e. 05/31 - Memorial Day - No School
f. 06/01-06/04 - EOG Remediation
g. 06/04 - Class Picnics
h. 06/08 - Fifth Grade Celebration; Honor Roll Assembly; Fifth Grade Social

4. Today we take the EOG Math - Calculator Inactive test for all grades 3-5. Please keep your classes quiet in the halls as there will be testing taking place throughout the building. This is the last

5. Ms. Laney has set our students' art work for the The Spring Extravaganza art show at the Old Salem Visitor's Center. You are invited to celebrate the creative work of our students this year. The opening night is Friday, May 21st from 6-8pm. The show runs from May 21st to the 28th.

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 tomorrow.

7. I would like to meet with K-1 teachers immediately following dismissal regrading Imagine It, the SIT decision and some new information. I would like SIT members to attend as well.

8. The address of the blog for staff comment on the information presented to SIT last Tuesday is:

http://2010-11organizationstructureb.blogspot.com/2010/05/2010-2011-structure-organization-and.html

9. Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?

Edgar Bergen (1903 - 1978), (Charlie McCarthy)

'So you think "I'm" the murderer? What do I have to do to convince you that I'm not, be the next victim?'
'Well, that would be a start.'
Peter Stone, Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn in "Charade", 1963

There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.
Robert Orben

I can't understand it. I can't even understand the people who can understand it.
Queen Juliana (1909 - 2004), of the Netherlands