Showing posts with label Florence Nightingale Elementary School. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Florence Nightingale Elementary School. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Offical Web Site

-- Florence Nightingale Elementary School Official Web Site, July 1 2008

Correction: Official Web Site

I'd like some consistency - either always website or always web site. How long does it take to update and replace a website?

activites; endevors

Dear ******,

The staff, students and families of Nightingale would like to Thank You for working with the students of Nightingale in the After School Program. The wonderful variety of activites that you organized has enriched the lives of many of our students.

Good Luck in your future endevors, we will miss you!
-- Farewell card from Florence Nightingale Elementary School to a departing staff member

Corrections: activities; endeavors

Friday, March 7, 2008

our student's needs

-- Nightingale brochure, March 2008

Multiple teachers, resource teachers, and support staff for just one student's needs? More likely, based on the subsequent sentence and good ol' common sense, the apostrophe is supposed to be after the s, for plurality's sake.

Our "Proud to be a HAWK Program has helped

-- Nightingale brochure, March 2008

Once again, Nightingale can't seem to finish what they start when it comes to quotation marks.

Monday, February 4, 2008

"A Caring Community of Learners

-- Nightingale News, February & March 2008 issue

Today's lesson, class: When using quotation marks, always finish what you start.

LITEREACY CONFERENCE

literacy
–noun
1. the quality or state of being literate, esp. the ability to read and write.
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