AM Announcements - May 26

AM Announcements
May 26, 2010

1. Today is Day 169.

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: May 26
EOG Retest Remediation
Web Page Migration to School Wires - Workshop - 2:45-4:00
SolEd Meeting - 3:30-5:00

Thursday: May 27
EOG Retest Remediation
Drs. Appointment - Reichert off-campus - 12:30-2:00

Friday: May 28
EOG Retest Remediation
Dollar Dress Down Day
Box Tops for Education collected
3. Upcoming Calendar Items:
a. 05/31 - Memorial Day - No School
b. 06/01-06/04 - EOG Retest
c. 06/04 - Class Picnics
d. 06/08 - Fifth Grade Celebration - 9:00 - 10:00 AM
e. 06/08 - Fifth Grade Social - 11:30AM -1:30 PM
f. 06/10 - K-4 Honor Roll Assembly - 9:00 AM
g. 06/18 - Report Cards mailed or available for pick-up in the office

4. 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

5. Dr. Weycker's office has the 2009-2010 K-2 Data Warehouse open for teachers to submit math and literacy assessments for their students. Directions for entering the data as well as new information regarding passwords may be found on the teachers' portal under Documents and then K2 Assessment Folder. This information may be found on the administrators' portal in the K2 Assessment Folder. If you have questions, please contact Janie Costello or Velvet Simington. The link to the K-2 Warehouse may be found on the teachers' portal on the right hand side, labeled K2 Assessment Data Collection.

6. Friday is the late arrival/early release day for classified staff members before the Memorial Day holiday. Classified staff members who arrive at 7:15 may arrive at 7:30 and leave at 2:30.

7. Today is the last Web Page Migration to School Wires workshop. If you didn't attend yesterday you will not have another chance to do this before June 30. All web pages have to migrate to School Wires by the end of June or you will lose your entire web page and have to begin again.

8. I will be off campus after 3:00 Today at a Sol Ed meeting downtown.

9. Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.
Dale Carnegie

My mother buried three husbands, and two of them were just napping.
Rita Rudner

Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
Scott Adams (1957 - )

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.
Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)