Friday, October 10, 2014

October 10, 2014



Welcome to the Speas Global Elementary Blog!
All staff members, let's make sure we are teaching, reteaching, and teaching again the procedures in the common areas (Hallway, Cafeteria, Bathrooms, Playground, Bus).  We should be giving out lots of Bee's for students demonstrating the basic expectations.  It is a good idea to review the procedures before you leave one area to travel to another area.  

Our Mission: 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.

Goals:
To increase English Language Arts achievement by 10%
To increase Mathematics achievement by 10%
To increase Science Achievement by 10%

picture by C. Cardona




How can praising Bee's for effort impact their attitudes.  Another look at Growth Mindset.


Announcements:
PTA Fundraiser-Dress a Dude Begins Next Week



(I hope I don't get fired for this.)


ISS
Specialists will begin holding ISS in their respective areas on their assigned days on 10.8.   The schedule is below.  Teachers, specialists may be contacting you for work for students assigned to ISS.  Please get them work as soon as possible.   
Day
Teacher
Location
A
Arora
Room 213
B
Bowen
Music
C
King
Art
D
Childers/McMasters
Media/CL
E
Lindquist
Gym
  

If you have not already taken the PBIS survey, please do so today.   The deadline for completing the survey has been extended until Friday 10/10.

Mark your Calendars----Parent Night is 10/21.   


Mrs. Merrill has made it easy for your class to vote for Specials Bee Incentives.  There is a Smart file on the S drive under PBIS/Specials Bee Incentive Vote 2014.  Just drag that file onto your desktop, open and use.  

All staff members, let's make sure we are teaching, reteaching, and teaching again the procedures in the common areas (Hallway, Cafeteria, Bathrooms, Playground, Bus).  We should be giving out lots of Bee's for students demonstrating the basic expectations.  It is a good idea to review the procedures before you leave one area to travel to another area.  

SMOD Tickets (dress code violations) are located in the workroom.  Please keep the bottom portion for your own records as a way to keep track of the number of violations.  The continuum is as follows:

1st offense: verbal warning, and letter will be sent home to be signed.  Parent or guardian notified of violation

2nd offense: Teacher notifies parent or guardian and student is removed from class until proper SMOD is delivered.

(Teachers, we all should be enforcing this, it will only work if we all enforce it).

Calendar
Date
PLT
Encore
T/M
Gym
Events/Reminders
10.9
6
A
X
4th
Subway Day, Subway Night Robinhood; Bookworms Orientation 9-10 Media Center; Happy Birthday Mr. King!!!!!!! (10/8)
10.10
1
B
X
3rd
K-visit from WSFD
10.13
2
C
X
K

10.14
3
D
X
5th
Staff Meeting
10.15
4
E
X
2nd

10.16
5
A
Y
1st
4th Grade to Sciquarium G-boro; Chik Fil A Night
10.17
6
B
Y
4th
5th Grade to Millis Health 8:30-1:30
10.20
1
C
Y
3rd

10.21
2
D
Y
K
RTA Test 4th grade,Dental Screening , pre-k, K, 3, 5, EC , Title 1 Parent/PTA Night; Committee Meetings
10.22




Early Release Day; Unity Day Wear Orange to Support Violence Prevention
10.23
3
E
Y
5th

10.24
4
A
X
2nd

10.27
5
B
X
1st
Happy Birthday Simmons! !!!!!!!!(10/26)
10.28
6
C
X
4th
Happy Birthday Volcan-Rivero!!!!!!!!!
10.29
1
D
X
3rd

10.30
2
E
X
K
Kinder.  Woosley Farm 9:30-1:30; Happy Birthday Copeland!!!!
10.31




No School for Students.  Happy Birthday Barnes!!!!!
11.3
3
A
Y
5th

11.4
4
B
Y
2nd

11.5
5
C
Y
1st

11.6
6
D
Y
4th

11.7
1
E
Y
3rd
Happy Birthday Bowen!!!!!!! (11/5)  Happy Birthday Uzcategui!!!!
11.10
2
A
X
K
Staff Meeting?
11.11




No School Veterans Day Holiday Happy Birthday Odom!!!!!
11.13
3
B
X
5th
Quarterly Awards
11.18
4
C
X
2nd
4/5 Assembly Café 9 AM WS Symphony; Committee Meetings
11.19
5
D
X
1st

11.20
6
E
X
2nd

11.21
1
A
Y
3rd

11.24
2
B
Y
K

11.25
3
C
Y
5th
Happy Thanksgiving!!!
12.1
4
D
Y
2nd

12.2
5
E
Y
1st

12.3




Happy Birthday Stokes!!!!!!!
12.7




Happy Birthday Spainhour!!!!!!
12.9




Staff Meeting
12.11




Papa Murphy’s Spirit Night, Staff Holiday Luncheon
12.16




Committee Meetings
12.18




Happy Birthday SR!!!!!!!
12.19




Happy Birthday Becerra!!!!!  Student Gift Bags go home
12.22




Happy Birthday K. Johnson!!!!!!!
12.28




Happy Birthday Lindquist!!!!!!!
12.29




Happy Birthday Higgins!!!!!!!
1.1




Happy Birthday Farra!!!!!!!!
1.2




Happy Birthday Hart!!!!!!!!!
1.8




Subway Night
1.9




Happy Birthday Canty!!!!!!!
1.15




Happy Birthday Summey!!!!!!!!
1.17




Happy Birthday Bumbrey!!!!!!!
1.20




Happy Birthday Linville!!!!!!!!!
1.23




Happy Birthday Brown!!!!!!!!
1.24




Happy Birthday Bushey!!!!!!!!!
1.29




Quarterly Awards
2.9




Happy Birthday Billingsley!!!!!!!
2.15




Happy Birthday Cartwright!!!!!!!
2.22




Happy Birthday Cokely!!!!!!!!!!
2.26




Happy Birthday Ryabova!!!!!!!!!
3.7




Happy Birthday Faragher!!!!!!
3.19




Happy Birthday Pfitzner!!!!!!!
3.23




Happy Birthday Smith!!!!!!!
3.27




Happy Birthday Ferguson!!!!!!!
3.29




Happy Birthday Mitchell!!!!!!!!
4.9




Quarterly Awards
4.10




1st Grade Dan Nicholas Park 8:30-2:00
4.17




Kids Night In Movie Night
5.14




Papa Murphy’s Spirit Night
5.7




4th Grade Heritage Theater, New Winston Museum
5.22




1st Grade NC  Zoo 8:00-2:00 PM






Thanks to Ryabova for sending us this video of great ideas for global activities at Speas. 




Language of the month website: Really Cool!


Teachers, when you are ready to take your Global Studies to the next level try these links:

http://aroundtheworldwith80schools.net/

http://www.slideshare.net/langwitches/get-connected-around-the-world-with-skype

https://schoolsonline.britishcouncil.org/projects-and-resources/skype-in-the-classroom

This Day in World History

Friday, October 10, 2014
Events
* 680Battle at Kerbela: Kalief Yazid beats pretender al-Hussein
* 1375Westfriese sea wall breaks flooding northern Netherlands
* 1471Battle of Brunkeberg Stockholm (Sten Sture beats Christian I)
* 1549Duke of Somerset fired as Lord Protector & imprisoned
* 1578Count Johan Casimir occupies Ghent with 500 horsemen
* 1631Saxon army occupies Prague
* 1695King Willem III escapes South Netherlands, back to England
* 1720French govt proclaims strike on banknotes
* 1733France declares war on emperor Charles VI
* 1760Suriname Colonial Regime signs treaty with Aukaners (ex-slaves)
* 1780Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000 to 30,000 in Caribbean
* 1787Amsterdam surrenders to Prussian invasion army
* 1799Convention of Alkmaar: English/Russian invasion army departs
* 18021st non indian settlement in Oklahoma
* 1839British troops under Gen Charles Napier occupy Beirut
* 1845Naval School (now called US Naval Academy) opens at Annapolis
* 1846Alexis the Tocqueville writes about "Algerian problem"
* 1846Neptune's moon Triton discovered by William Lassell
* 1854US Assay Office in NY City, NY opens
* 1857American Chess Association formed (NYC)
* 1863Skirmish at Blue Springs, Tennessee (166 casualties)
* 1865John Hyatts patents billard ball
* 18681st written account of a Canadian football game
* 1868Cuba revolts for independence against Spain
* 1874Fiji becomes a British possession
* 18861st dinner jacket worn to autumn ball at Tuxedo Park, NY (tuxedo)
* 1888Teatotalers excursion train crushed, killing 64 (Mud Run Pa)
* 1892Entire Hong Kong national cricket team, die in shipwreck off Taiwan
* 1899IR Johnson patents bicycle frame
* 1902S Afr's president Paul Kruger visits Utrecht
* 1904Liberty Theater opens at 234 W 42nd St NYC
* 1904Yanks 2 games out play 1st place Red Sox on final day doubleheader 41 game winner Chesbro loses 1st game & chance at pennant
* 1904Boston pitchers achieve 148 complete games-an AL record, also record for total complete games AL 1,098, NL 1,089
* 1908Baseball Writers Association, formed
* 1911Sun Yat-sen's revolutionaries overthrow Manchus (Taiwan Natl Day)
* 1913British passenger ship Volturno catches fire in Atlantic (136 kill)
* 1913Gamboa Dam in Panama blown up; Atlantic & Pacific waters mix
* 1913Yuan Shikai installed as 1st president of China
* 1914German forces route Belgians in Antwerp Belgium (WW I)
* 1916In Game 3, Charlie Ebbets becomes the 1st owner to raise the price of World Series grandstand seats to $5-up from $3
* 1917Giants Rube Benton is 1st lefty to pitch a World Series no hitter
* 1917Plymouth Theater opens at 236 W 45th St NYC
* 1918Baden's Geisz forms govt
* 1919Richard Strauss & Hugo van Hofmannsthals premieres in Vienna
* 19201st Grandslam in WS (Smith) & 1st unassisted triple play (Wambsganss)
* 1920Indians' Elmer Smith hits baseball's 1st post-season grand slam
* 1920Italy annexes South Tirol (Alto Adige)
* 1920Phoenix Cardinals (then in Chicago) play 1st NFL game, a 0-0 tie
* 1920Indian Bill Wambsganns makes 1st unassisted World Series triple play
* 1920Indian's Elmer Smith hits 1st World Series grand slam
* 1921NFL Decatur Staleys become Chicago Staleys, win 14-10
* 1923Saxony gets Social Democratic & Communist coalition government
* 1923NY Giants & NY Yankees become 1st teams to play each other for 3 consecutive World Series, also 1st played at Yankee Stadium
* 1924Ibn Saud of Nedzhed captures Mecca
* 1924Washington Senators win their 1st World Series beat Giants in 7
* 1926St Louis Cards beat NY Yankees, 4 games to 3 in 23rd World Series
* 1930AP votes Joe Cronin unofficial AL MVP & BWA names Hack Wilson NL MVP
* 1930Yankees announce signing Joe McCarthy to manage for 4 years
* 1931A J Bennett hits H Garbarino for 1st scoring pass in Canada's Big 4
* 1931St Louis Cards beat Phila A's, 4 games to 3 in 28th World Series
* 1931William Waltons "Belshazzar's Feast," premieres in Leeds
* 1932"Betty & Bob" premieres on radio
* 1932Dnjepr Dam in USSR put into operation (world's biggest)
* 19331st synthetic detergent, "Dreft" by Procter & Gamble, goes on sale
* 1935"Porgy & Bess," by George Gershwin, NY premiere
* 1935Coup under Gen Giorgios Kondylis in favor of Greek monarchy
* 1935George Gershwin's "Porgy & Bess" opens on Broadway
* 1935League of Nations denounces Italian invasion of Abyssinia
* 1936Bradman scores 212 in 202 mins in a cricket testimonial game
* 1937NY Yankees beat Giants 4 games to 1 in 34th World Series
* 1938Germany completed annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland
* 1938Premier of Dmitri Shostakovitch's 1st String Quartet
* 1941German U-boat torpedoes US destroyer Kearney
* 19421,300 Austrian Jews transported to Theresienstadt
* 1943Chiang Kai-shek takes oath of office as president of China
* 1943US bombers accidentally strike Enschede Neth, causing 151 deaths
* 1944Adm Halsey's Task Force 30 bombs Okinawa, 700 die
* 1944US takes Okinawa
* 1945Detroit Tigers beat Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 3 in 42nd World Series
* 1946Max Frisch' "Die Chinesische Mauer," premieres in Zurich
* 1947"Allegro" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 318 performances
* 1947Rodgers & Hammerstein's musical "Allegro," premieres in NYC
* 1948Then record 86,288 see game 5 of World Series in Cleveland
* 19493rd NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Toronto 3-1 at Toronto
* 1951Yanks beat Giants 4 games to 2 in World Series, DiMaggio's final game
* 1954Ho Chi Minh enters Hanoi after French troops pulled out
* 1956Fazal Mahmood takes 13-114 for match v Aus, Karachi
* 1956On Skowron's grand slammer NY Yanks beat Dodgers 9-0 in series game 7
* 1957Accident at British nuclear reactor in Windsdale
* 1957Braves' Lew Burdette beats Yankees for 3rd time in 1 World Series
* 1957Milwaukee Braves beat NY Yankees, 4 games to 3 in 54th World Series
* 1957Pres Eisenhower apologizes to finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, after he is refused service in a Dover, Del, restaurant
* 1957USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
* 1958US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
* 1958USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
* 1959"Happy Town" closes at 84th St Theater NYC after 5 performances
* 1959Lee Harvey Oswald signs guestbook in hotel Helsinki
* 1959Pan Am begins regular flights around World
* 1960"Laughs & Other Events" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 8 perfs
* 196016 Calif Poly football team members die in plane crash in Toledo
* 1960Cyclone hits coast of Gulf of Bengal; about 4000 die
* 1960Ron Stewart of Ottawa rushes for CFL-record 287 yards
* 1960WGTE TV channel 30 in Toledo, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
* 1961"Milk & Honey" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 543 performances
* 1961Expansion draft to stock Houston Astros & NY Mets
* 1961Otis M Smith appointed to Michigan Supreme Court
* 1961US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
* 1962Indies assault up Chinese positions in North-India attack
* 1963Dam bursts in Italy, 3,000+ die
* 1963Netherland population hits 12,000,000
* 1963Treaty banning atmospheric nuclear tests signed by US, UK, USSR
* 196418th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Toronto 3-2 at Toronto
* 196418th modern Olympic games opens in Tokyo
* 1965"Drat! - The Cat!" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 8 performances
* 1965Supreme appear on Ed Sullivan Show
* 1965"Vinland Map" is introduced by Yale University as being the 1st known map of America, drawn about 1440 by Norse explorer Lief Eriksson
* 1967Brendan Behans "Norstal Boy," premieres in Dublin
* 1968Detroit Tigers beat St Louis Cards, 4 games to 3 in 65th World Series
* 1968George Harrison forms Singsong Ltd
* 1968Lee Evans of US sets 400 meter record at 43.86
* 1968US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
* 1970Fiji gains independence from Britain (National Day)
* 19711st game played at Philadelphia's Veteran Stadium, Phils win 4-1
* 19715th Country Music Assn Award: Charlie Pride wins
* 1971Fenholt & Webber's musical "Jesus Christ Superstar," premieres in NYC
* 1971Rain washes out Game 2, 1st World Series postponement since 1962
* 1972Judy Rankin wins LPGA Heritage Village Golf Open
* 1973NY Mets beat Cin Reds in Game 5 of the NLCS
* 1973VP Spiro T Agnew pleads no contest to tax evasion & resigns
* 1974A's Mike Andrews files $25 million lawsuit against Charlie Finley
* 1974Canadian John Hathaway begins 2-yr ride of 50,600 miles
* 1974Labour Party wins British parliamentary election
* 1974US Gen George Brown's speech deplores Jewish influence in US over his treatment during the 1973 World Series
* 1975Israel formally signs Sinai accord with Egypt
* 1975Liz Taylor's 6th marriage (re-marries Richard Burton)
* 1976Beijing reports arrest of Mao Tse Tung's widow
* 1976NJ Meadowlands' Giant's Stadium opens
* 1976Greece's 98 year-old Dimitrion Yordanidis, is oldest man to compete in a marathon; he finishes in 7:33
* 197711th Country Music Assn Award: Ronnie Milsap wins
* 1978Aerosmith's Steve Tyler & Joe Perry injured by a cherry bomb
* 1978British pop magazine "Smash Hits," 1st published
* 1978Congress approves Susan B Anthony Dollar
* 1978Daniel Arap Moi succeeds Kenyatta as president of Kenya
* 1978Steve Perry joins Journey
* 1978Yanks & Dodgers play in World Series # 75
* 1979Fleetwood Mac gets a star in Hollywood
* 1979Nordiques' Real Cloutier sets NHL record of a hat trick in 1st game
* 1979Panama assumes sovereignty over Canal Area (ie Canal Zone)
* 1979Recorded trace of snow in Central Park NYC
* 19804,500 die when a pair of earthquakes strikes NW Algeria
* 1980Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope network dedicated
* 1980Yanks lose 4-2 & are swept by Royals in AL Championship series
* 1981Anwar Sadat's funeral service is held in Cairo
* 1982Brewers beat Angels in ALCS
* 1982Hernan Siles Zuazo installed as president of Bolivia
* 1982Pope John Paul II canonizes Rev M Kolbe, who volunteered to die in place of another inmate at Auschwitz concentration camp, a saint
* 1982US imposes sanctions against Poland for banning Solidarity trade union
* 198317th Country Music Assn Award: Alabama wins
* 1983Israel's Knesset votes 60-53 to endorse Yitzhak Shamir as PM
* 1983Tom Monaghan becomes CEO of Detroit Tigers
* 1985Sudan adopts interim constitution
* 1985US fighter jets force Egyptian plane carrying hijackers of Italian ship Achille Lauro to land in Italy, gunmen are placed in custody
* 19867.5 Earthquake strikes San Salvador, El Salvador
* 1986Israel Prime Minister Shimon Peres resigns
* 1987Bruce Springsteen releases his 9th album "Tunnel of Love"
* 1987Garfield Park Nature Center opens, latest in Cleveland Metroparks
* 1987Giant's Jeffrey Leonard hits playoff record HR in his 4th cons game
* 198822nd Country Music Assn Award: Highway 101, K T Oslin win
* 1988Royals announce that Dick Howser, who underwent surgery for a brain tumor in July, will return to manage the club in 1989
* 1990Oakland A's sweep Red Sox in 4 games to win ALCS
* 1990US 67th manned space mission STS 41 (Discovery 11) returns from space
* 1991Ex-postal worker Joseph Harris kills 4 postal workers
* 1991Greyhound Bus ends bankruptcy
* 1991US cuts all foreign aid to Haiti
* 1992Actress Ally Sheedy weds actor David Lansbury
* 1992Actress Heather Thomas weds entertainment lawyer Skip Brittenham
* 1992Floriade (Flower Show) closes at Hague, Netherlands
* 1993Browns Najee Mustafaa sets club rec for longest interception (97 yds)
* 1993Ferry boat leaves for west coast of South Korea, 120 killed
* 1993Ted Kennedy Jr (32) weds psychiatrist Katherine Gershman (34)
* 1994Lt-general Raoul C‚dras resigns as dictator of Haiti
* 1994MPAA chief Jack Valenti holds meeting to determine new movie ratings
* 1994NY Giants retire Lawrence Taylor's #56
* 1994Nobel prize for physiology awarded to Alfred Gilman & Martin Rodbell
* 1994Value of Russian ruble decreases, 3081 rubles per dollar
* 1995"Garden District" opens at Circle in the Sq Theater NYC
* 1995Israel begins W Bank pullback, frees hundreds of Palestinian prisoners
* 1995Most Dutch telephone numbers increase to 10 digits
* 1995Robert E Lucas awarded Nobel Prize in economics
* 1996"Sex & Longing" opens at Cort Theater NYC
* 1996Cornerstone dedication for Holocaust Museum in NYC

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