Wednesday, October 15, 2014

October 15, 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 this week!

Ms. Burleson and Mr. Cokley have claimed the title of "First Contact."  Using the website 'epals', they have actually contacted 3 classrooms from 3 different coutries, India, Australia, and.....well, I cannot remember the last one.  But, the evidence has been confirmed.  Teachers, if you are doing something similar, please let us know, we'd love to see it.   

http://www.epals.com/#!/main
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
  


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
10.15
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
Tiger Kim’s visiting during PE specials beginning today
5th Grade to Millis Health 8:30-1:30
Dollar Dress Down Day
10.20

C
Y


10.21

D
Y

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

E
Y


10.24

A
X

Last day of Tiger Kim’s visiting PE classes; Science EOQ 5th Grade; Ident-a-Kid on campus; Pink and Jeans Day
10.27

B
X

Tiger Kims afterschool begins 2:45-3:30 Gym; Math EOQ 3, 4, 5th Grade
10.28

C
X

Reading EOQ 3,4,5 Grade
10.29

D
X


10.30

E
X

Last day of Tiger Kims afterschool; Kinder.  Woosley Farm 9:30-1:30; Happy Birthday Copeland!!!!
10.31




No School for Students.  Happy Birthday Barnes!!!!!
11.7




Happy Birthday Uzcategui!!!!
11.10




Staff Meeting?
11.11




No School Veterans Day Holiday Happy Birthday Odom!!!!!
11.13




Quarterly Awards
11.14




Yoforia Movie Night
11.18




4/5 Assembly Café 9 AM WS Symphony; Committee Meetings
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!!!!!!!; Yoforia Spirit Night
12.19




Student Gift Bags go home
12.22




Happy Birthday K. Johnson!!!!!!!
12.23




Happy Birthday Vidal Cuenca!!!!!!!!
12.28




Happy Birthday Lindquist!!!!!!!
12.29




Happy Birthday Higgins!!!!!!!
1.1




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




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




Subway Night
1.15




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




Happy Birthday Bumbrey!!!!!!!
1.20




Happy Birthday Linville!!!!!!!!!
1.22




Yoforia Spirit Night
1.23




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




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




Quarterly Awards
2.9




Happy Birthday Billingsley!!!!!!!
2.13




Yoforia Movie Night
2.15




Happy Birthday Cartwright!!!!!!!
2.22




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




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




Happy Birthday Faragher!!!!!!
3.12




Chik-fil-A Spirit Night
3.19




Happy Birthday Pfitzner!!!!!!!; Yoforia Spirit Night
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
4.16




Yoforia Spirit Night
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; Yoforia Movie Night






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

http://www.comparea.org/FXX+AUS?utm_content=buffer6fa14&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/ipad-apps-virtual-field-trips-monica-burns?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=blog-virtualtripapps-repost2



This Day in World History

On This Day in History
Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Events
* 1501English crown prince Arthur marries Catharina of Arag¢n
* 1520King Henry VIII of England orders bowling lanes at Whitehall
* 1522Emperor Karel I names Hern n Cort‚s governor of Mexico
* 1581Commissioned by Catherine De Medici, the 1st ballet "Ballet Comique de la Reine," is staged in Paris
* 1582Many Catholic countries switch to Gregorian calendar, skip 10 days
* 1598Spanish general strategist Bernardino de Mendoza occupies fort Rhine
* 1641Paul de Chomedy de Maisonneuve claims Montreal
* 1654Prince Willem III appointed viceroy of Overijssel
* 1655Jews of Lublin are massacred
* 1660Asser Levy granted butchers license (kosher meat) in New Amsterdam
* 1705English fleet under Lord Peterborough occupies Barcelona
* 1724Cornelis Steenoven is 1st archbishop of Old-Catholic church
* 1756Saxon army surrenders to Prussia
* 1777Mjr James Graves Simcoe appointed commandant of Queen's Rangers (Penn)
* 1783Jean Pilƒtre de Rozier makes captive-balloon ascent
* 1786Earliest 32°F (0°C) recorded temp in NYC
* 17891st presidental tour-George Washington in New England
* 1815Napoleon Bonaparte exiled on Island of St Helena
* 1827Charles Darwin reaches Christ's Counsel, Cambridge
* 1842Karl Marx becomes editor-in-chief of Rheinische Zeitung
* 1846Dr William Thomas Green Morton 1st public use of ether
* 186011-year-old Grace Bedell writes to Lincoln, tells him to grow a beard
* 1863Cliff House opens in SF (1st of many on site)
* 1864Confederate troops occupy Glasgow, Missouri
* 1866Great fire in Quebec destroys 2,500 houses
* 1874Child labor law takes 12 year olds out of work force
* 187745th Congress (1877-79) convenes
* 1878Edison Electric Light Company incorporated
* 1880K”ln cathedral completed, 633 years after it begun
* 18811st American fishing magazine, American Angler published
* 1883Supreme Court declares Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional
* 1885Hoss Radbourne pitches his 60th win of season
* 1889Amsterdam Central Station officially opens
* 1890Alabama Penny Savings Bank organizes in Birmingham
* 1894Capt Alfred Dreyfus arrested accused of espionage
* 1897Aaron/Samuel Bloch carry 1st Mail Pouch
* 1897King Leopold II takes Belgian crown
* 1899Cincinnati closes season with 16-1 & 19-3 victories over Cleve Spiders
* 1905Claude Debussy's "La Mer," premieres
* 1905Union workers at NVV rejects safety demands
* 1912Red Sox Tris Speaker's makes only world series unassisted double play, from the outfield
* 1913Train crash in Liverpool during "Black Week"
* 1914ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers) founded
* 1914Battle of Warsaw, begins (ends Oct 21)
* 1914Clayton Anti-trust Act passed (union & strike rights)
* 1917Chicago White Sox beat NY Giants, 4 games to 2 in 14th World Series
* 1918British Q-ship Cymric sinks British submarine J6
* 191914 horses begin 300-mile race from Vt to Mass for $1000 prize money
* 1923NY Yankees 1st World Series win beating NY Giants, 4 games to 2
* 1924Pres Coolidge declares Statue of Liberty a national monument
* 1925Pitts Pirates beat Wash Senators, 4 games to 3 in 22nd World Series
* 1925Willem Landr‚'s opera "Beatrice" premiers in The Hague
* 1926Austria govt of Seipel, forms
* 1926Philip Barry's "White Wings!," premieres in NYC
* 1928German dirigible "Graf Zeppelin" lands in Lakehurst, NJ
* 1928Walter Johnson signs a 3-year contract to manage the Senators
* 1933Philadelphia Eagles play 1st NFL game, lose to NY Giants 56-0
* 1935NHL's St Louis Eagles fold
* 1937Ernest Hemingway novel "To Have & Have Not" published
* 1937Rather than accept any trade offers, the Yanks release Tony Lazzeri
* 1938Robert Sherwoods "Abe Lincoln in Illinois," premieres in NYC
* 1939LaGuardia Airport opens in NYC
* 1939Yeshiva of Mir closes after 124 years
* 1940-16] Heavy German air raid on London, 400 killed
* 1940London's Waterloo Station bombed by Germans
* 19411st mass deportation of German Jews to Eastern Europe
* 1941Japan Tojo regime forms
* 1941Jews caught outside Polish Ghetto walls could be put to death
* 1942German 6th Army occupies Tractorenfabriek, 3,000 German's die
* 1945Baseball Attendance hits record 10.28 million (Tigers 1.28 is highest)
* 1946Smallest World Series share since 1918 (Cards $3,748, Red Sox $2,140)
* 1946St Louis Cards beat Boston Red Sox, 4 games to 3 in 43rd World Series
* 1946Enos Slaughter scores from 1st on a single in World Series
* 1948China's Red army occupies Chinchov
* 1949Administration of territory of Manipur taken over by Indian govt
* 1949Billy Graham begins his ministry
* 1949Tripura accedes to Indian union
* 1951"I Love Lucy" debuts on CBS TV
* 1951Egyptian parliament accept denounces Suez Canal Treaty
* 1952Arthur Laurent's "Time of the Cuckoo," premieres in NYC
* 1953John Patrick's "Teahouse of the Red Moon," premieres in NYC
* 1953KOIN TV channel 6 in Portland, OR (CBS) begins broadcasting
* 1953WJNL (now WFAT) TV channel 19 in Johnstown, PA (IND) begins
* 1954Hurricane Hazel strikes US & Canada, 348 die
* 1954KLTV TV channel 7 in Tyler-Longview, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
* 1956Pyotr Bolotnikov runs world record 10k (28:42.8)
* 1956William J Brennan Jr appointed to Supreme Court
* 1956Yankees Enos Slaughter scores from 1st on a single in World Series
* 1957Giants trade Minneapolis franchise to Red Sox for SF Seals-franchises only, not the players
* 1958Tunisia drops diplomatic relations with Egypt
* 1958USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
* 1959"Untouchables" premieres
* 1959KNDO TV channel 23 in Yakima, WA (NBC) begins broadcasting
* 1960"Laughs & Other Events" closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 8 perfs
* 1962Byron R White appointed to Supreme Court
* 1962WLOX TV channel 13 in Biloxi-Gulfport, MS (ABC) begins broadcasting
* 1963Ludwig Erhard follows Conrad Adenauer as West German Chancellor
* 1964Craig Breedlove sets auto speed record of 846.97 kph
* 1964Dr Martin Luther King Jr awarded Nobel Peace Prize
* 1964Kosygin & Brezhnev replace Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev
* 1964St Louis Cardinals beat NY Yankees, 4 games to 3 in 61st World Series
* 1964NY Yankees appears in 14 & win 9 of last 16 World Series
* 1965Dodgers & Sandy Koufax win 7th game of 62nd World Series vs Twins
* 1965WEMT (now WVII) TV channel 7 in Bangor, ME (ABC) begins broadcasting
* 1966Australia bans Troggs' "I Can't Control Myself," as "terribly obscene"
* 1966LBJ signs a bill creating Dept of Transportation (DOT)
* 1968AL expansion draft, KC pick Roger Nelson & Pilots pick Don Mincher 1st
* 1969Bank of America World Headquarters (555 California) dedicated
* 1969Madison Square Garden TV Network begins (Rangers vs North Stars)
* 1969NY Met Ron Swoboda's spectacular diving catch of sinking liner with runners at 1st & 3rd in 9th, Mets win in 10th in World Series game
* 1969Oriole Earl Weaver becomes 1st manager ejected in a World Series
* 1969Vietnam Moratorium Day; millions nationwide protest the war
* 1970Anwar Sadat elected president of Egypt
* 1970Baltimore Orioles beat Cin Reds, 4 games to 1 in 67th World Series
* 1970Bridge over Yarra River in Melbourne crashes; killing 35
* 1970Russian passenger flight hijacked to Turkey
* 197261st Davis Cup: USA beats Romania in Bucharest (3-2)
* 1972Omni in Atlanta opens - Hawks beat NY Knicks 109-101
* 19737th Country Music Assn Award: Roy Clark wins
* 1973Tanks attack Thailand demonstrating students, 300 killed
* 1974National Guard mobilizes to restore order in Boston school busing
* 1974Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Paul J Flory (macro molecules)
* 1974Washington Capitals 1st NHL tie, playing LA Kings to 1-1 tie
* 1975Iceland moves intl boundary from 50 to 200 miles
* 19761st debate of major-ticket VP nominees Mondale (D) vs Dole (R)
* 1976Ringo releases "A Dose of Rock 'n' Roll"
* 1977Arkansas' Steve Little kicks a record tying 67 yard field goal
* 1977Debbie Boone's "You Light Up My Life," goes #1 & stays #1 for 10 weeks
* 1977Don Ritchie runs world record 100 mile (11:30:51)
* 1978Silvia Bertolaccini wins LPGA Civitan Golf Open
* 1978USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
* 19791st Monday night game from NYC, Jets beat Vikings 14-7 (Shea Stad)
* 1979Chinese premier Hwa Kwofeng visits Paris
* 1979Military coup in El Salvador: president/general Carlos Romero flees
* 1979NY Knicks retire 2nd number, # 10, Walt Frazier
* 1980George Brett is forced out of World Series with hemorrhoids
* 1980Nobel prize for economy awarded to Lawrence R Klein
* 1981NY Yankees capture 33rd AL pennant, sweeping 3 games from Oakland A's
* 1983Black Hawks & Maple Leafs combine for fastest 5 goals (84 seconds)
* 1983Columbia beats Yale 21-18 in football, will lose next 44 games
* 1983US Marine sharpshooters kill 5 snipers at Beirut Intl Airport
* 1984Central Intelligence Agency's Information Act passes
* 1984Centrum party expels 2nd Member of parliament Janmaat due to fraud
* 1985Nobel prize for economics awarded to Franco Modigliani
* 1985Shuttle Columbia carries Spacelab into orbit
* 1985Shelley Taylor of Australia makes fastest swim ever around Manhattan Island, doing it in 6 hours 12 minutes 29 seconds
* 1986Longest post season game, Mets beat Astros 7-6 in 16 & win NL pennant
* 1987"Late Nite Comic" opens at Ritz Theater NYC for 4 performances
* 19876th Belgium govt of Martens falls
* 1987Coup in Burkina Faso, president Sankara dies
* 1987Lanford Wilson's "Burn This," premieres in NYC
* 1987NFL Players Assn orders an end to 24 day strike
* 1988Amnesty International's Global Concert Tour ends in Buenos Aires
* 1988NCAA record rushing yardage (768 yards-Oklahoma)
* 1988With 2 outs in bottom of 9th, an injured Kirk Gibson hits dramatic 2 run HR to gives Dodgers a 5-4 win in 1st game of World Series
* 1989Billy Graham is given 1,900th star on Hollywood Blvd
* 1989S Afr pres FW de Klerk frees Sisulu & 4 other political prisoners
* 1989South african ANC-founder/leader Walter Sisulu freed
* 1989Wayne Gretzky passes Gordie Howes as NHL's all time top scorer
* 1990Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev wins Nobel Peace Prize
* 1991Clarence Thomas is confirmed as Supreme Court Justice (52-48)
* 1992Charles Taylor launches an offensive against Monrovia Liberia
* 1992Howard Stern radio show begins broadcasting on WLUP-AM, Chicago
* 1992NYC Subway motorman Robert Ray convicted of manslaughter in death of 5 riders, when he fell asleep drunk while in control of train
* 1993Amstel brewery on Cura‡ao produces 1,000,000,000th bottle
* 1993Guardian Angel Lisa Evers Sliwa files for divorce from Curtis Sliwa
* 1993Nelson Mandela & S Afr Pres F W de Klerk awarded Nobel Peace Prize
* 1994Botswana Pres Ketumile Masires BDP wins parliamentary election
* 1994Pres Jean-Baptiste Aristide returns to Haiti
* 1995Annika Sorenstam wins LPGA World Championship of Women's Golf
* 1995Carolina Panthers win 1st game ever beating NY Jets 26-15
* 1997Britain's Andy Green sets jet-powered car record (763.035 mph)
* 1997Cleve Indians beat Balt Orioles 4 games to 2 in ALCS
* 1997Former rep Dan Rostenkowski released from custody for mail fraud
* 1997NY jury awards boxer Mitch Green $45,000 in civil lawsuit against Mike Tyson, for street brawl in 1988
* 1997US launches nuclear powered Cassini to Saturn

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