Welcome to the Speas Global Elementary Blog!
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
Check out this graphic about global education. The things above water are just the tip of the iceberg. Try to go deeper in your instruction and touch some of the issues below the surface.
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
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Teacher
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Location
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A
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Arora
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Room 213
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B
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Bowen
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Music
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C
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King
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Art
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D
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Childers/McMasters
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Media/CL
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E
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Lindquist
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Gym
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Here are some resources about the IB PYP Programme.
http://youtu.be/FOhS6viEg4w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPyZpOVZYhU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCroukWy9vg&list=PLxpo2QNJYewyojt0cMXTJGrIbCDA4t0lt&index=17
What kind of mindset to we want to cultivate?
Announcements:
New Speas Elementary Symbaloo page for quick references for a multitude of sites:
http://www.symbaloo.com/home/mix/13eOcMEZPT#
email: djjohnson@wsfcs.k12.nc.us
pass: speasbees2014
Please email us with your favorite educator sites so we can create a huge selection of online resources.
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
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PLT
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Encore
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T/M
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Gym
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Events/Reminders
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12.1
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1
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B
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X
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PBIS Assembly AM
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12.2
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2
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C
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X
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Ash out-meeting
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12.3
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3
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D
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X
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Happy Birthday Stokes!!!!!!!
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12.4
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4
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E
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X
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Indian Dance Assemblies K-2 9 AM, 3-5 10:15
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12.5
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5
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A
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Y
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2nd Grade to Ardmore Church
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12.7
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Happy Birthday Spainhour!!!!!!
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12.8
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6
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B
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Y
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12.9
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1
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C
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Y
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Staff Meeting; IC meeting SIP review
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12.10
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2
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D
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Y
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12.11
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3
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E
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Y
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Johnson out meeting; Papa Murphy’s Spirit Night, Staff Holiday Luncheon
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12.12
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4
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A
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X
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Hooker out
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12.15
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5
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B
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X
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12.16
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6
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C
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X
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Committee Meetings
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12.17
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1
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D
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X
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12.18
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2
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E
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X
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Happy Birthday SR!!!!!!!; Yoforia Spirit Night; Ash out-meeting
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12.19
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3
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A
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Y
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Happy Birthday Becerra!!!!!; Student Gift Bags go home; Spelling Bee
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12.20-1.5
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No School, Winter Vacation
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12.22
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Happy Birthday K. Johnson!!!!!!!
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12.23
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Happy Birthday Vidal Cuenca!!!!!!!!
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12.28
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Happy Birthday Lindquist!!!!!!!
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12.29
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Happy Birthday Higgins!!!!!!!
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1.1
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Happy Birthday Farra!!!!!!!!
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1.2
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Happy Birthday Hart!!!!!!!!!
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1.5
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4
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B
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Y
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1.6
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5
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C
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Y
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Ash out meeting
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1.7
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6
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D
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Y
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Canty Out-Meeting
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1.8
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1
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E
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Y
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Subway Night
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1.9
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2
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A
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X
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1.12
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3
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B
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X
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Quarter Test window opens
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1.13
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4
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C
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X
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CWT Review
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1.14
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5
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D
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X
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1.15
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6
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E
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X
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Happy Birthday Summey!!!!!!!!; Ash out meeting
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1.16
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1
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A
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Y
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Quarter Test window closes
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1.17
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Happy Birthday Bumbrey!!!!!!!
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1.20
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Happy Birthday Linville!!!!!!!!!
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1.21
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2
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B
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Y
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1.22
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3
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C
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Y
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Johnson out AM, Yoforia Spirit Night
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1.23
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4
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D
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Y
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Happy Birthday Brown!!!!!!!!
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1.24
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Happy Birthday Bushey!!!!!!!!!
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1.26
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5
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E
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Y
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1.27
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6
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A
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X
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Report Cards go home
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1.28
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1
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B
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X
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1.29
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2
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C
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X
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Johnson out Quarterly Awards
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1.30
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3
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D
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X
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2.3
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Ash out AM; Access Testing window opens
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2.4
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2.5
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2.6
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2.9
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Happy Birthday Billingsley!!!!!!!
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2.10
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IC meeting learning walks
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2.11
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Early Release
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2.12
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Ash out AM; Canty Out-Meeting
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2.13
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Yoforia Movie Night
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2.15
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Happy Birthday Cartwright!!!!!!!
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2.16
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No School(workday)
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2.17
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2.18
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2.19
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2.20
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2.22
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Happy Birthday Cokely!!!!!!!!!!
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2.23
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Ash out AM
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2.24
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2.25
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Johnson out AM
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2.26
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Evan meet w/grade levels; Happy Birthday Ryabova!!!!!!!!!
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2.27
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3.1
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3.7
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Happy Birthday Faragher!!!!!!
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3.12
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Ash out AM; Chik-fil-A Spirit Night
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3.14
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Access Testing window closes
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3.17
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Canty Out-Meeting
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3.19
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Evan w/ Teachers; Happy Birthday Pfitzner!!!!!!!; Yoforia Spirit Night
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3.23
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Quarter Testing Begins Happy Birthday Smith!!!!!!!
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3.25
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Johnson out AM
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3.27
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Johnson out; Quarter Testing Ends Happy Birthday Ferguson!!!!!!!
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3.29
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Happy Birthday Mitchell!!!!!!!!
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4.7
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Ash out AM
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4.8
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Evan mtg w/grade levels
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4.9
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Quarterly Awards
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4.10
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1st Grade Dan Nicholas Park 8:30-2:00
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4.13
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Canty out-training
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4.14
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Report Cards go home
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4.16
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Happy Birthday Hooker; Ash out AM; Yoforia Spirit Night
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4.17
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Kids Night In Movie Night
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4.21
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IC mtg. Instr. strategies
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4.22
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Johnson out- AM
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4.23
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Johnson out
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4.26
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5.1
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Canty out meeting
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5.5
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Ash out AM
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5.14
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Ash out AM; Papa Murphy’s Spirit Night
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5.7
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4th Grade Heritage Theater, New Winston Museum
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5.20
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Johnson out AM
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5.22
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1st Grade NC Zoo 8:00-2:00 PM; Yoforia Movie Night; Ready EOG window opens
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6.5
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Ready EOG window closes
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6.7
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Water Day
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On This Day in World History
December 1
| 1135 | Henry I of England dies and the crown is passed to his nephew Stephen of Bloise. | |
| 1581 | Edmund Champion and other Jesuit martyrs are hanged at Tyburn, England, for sedition, after being tortured. | |
| 1861 | The U.S. gunboat Penguin seizes the Confederate blockade runner Albion carrying supplies worth almost $100,000. | |
| 1862 | President Abraham Lincoln gives the State of the Union address to the 37th Congress. | |
| 1863 | Belle Boyd, a Confederate spy, is released from prison in Washington. | |
| 1881 | Virgil, Wyatt and Morgan Earp are exonerated in court for their action in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Ariz. | |
| 1900 | Kaiser Wilhelm II refuses to meet with Boer leader Paul Kruger in Berlin. | |
| 1905 | Twenty officers and 230 guards are arrested in St. Petersburg, Russia, for the revolt at the Winter Palace. | |
| 1908 | The Italian Parliament debates the future of the Triple Alliance and asks for compensation for Austria's action in Bosnia-Herzegovina. | |
| 1909 | President William Howard Taft severs official relations with Nicaragua's Zelaya government and declares support for the revolutionaries. | |
| 1916 | King Constantine of Greece refuses to surrender to the Allies. | |
| 1918 | An American army of occupation enters Germany. | |
| 1925 | After a seven-year occupation, 7,000 British troops evacuate Cologne, Germany. | |
| 1933 | Nazi storm troops become an official organ of the Reich. | |
| 1934 | Josef Stalin's aide, Sergei Kirov, is assassinated in Leningrad. | |
| 1941 | Japan's Tojo rejects U.S. proposals for a Pacific settlement as fantastic and unrealistic. | |
| 1941 | Great Britain declares a state of emergency in Malaya following reports of Japanese attacks. | |
| 1941 | The first Civil Air Patrol is organized in the United States. | |
| 1942 | National gasoline rationing goes into effect in the United States. | |
| 1955 | Rosa Parks refuses to sit in the back of a Montgomery, Alabama, bus, defying the South's segregationist laws. | |
| 1969 | America's first draft lottery since 1942 is held. | |
| 1971 | Indian Army recaptures part of Kashmir, which had been occupied by Pakistan. | |
| 1981 | AIDS virus officially recognized. | |
| 1986 | Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North pleads the 5th Amendment before a Senate panel investigating the Iran-Contra arms sale. | |
| 1988 | Benazir Bhutto, politician, becomes the first woman to serve as Prime Minister of Pakistan and the first woman elected to lead a Muslim state | |
| 1989 | East Germany's parliament changes its constitution, abolishing a section that gave the Communist Party the leading role in the state. | |
| 1990 | Channel Tunnel sections from France and the UK meet beneath the English Channel. | |
| 1991 | Ukraine's voters overwhelmingly approve a referendum for independence from the USSR. | |
| 2001 | Trans World Airlines' final flight following the carrier's purchase by American Airlines; TWA began operating 76 years earlier. The final flight, 220, piloted by Capt. Bill Compton, landed at St. Louis International Airport. | |
| Born on December 1 | ||
| 1761 | Madame Tussaud, Swiss-born modeller in wax who founded the world-famous exhibition on London's Baker Street. | |
| 1847 | Julia Moore, poet. | |
| 1863 | Oliver Herford, American humorist and poet. | |
| 1886 | Rex Stout, writer, creator of detective character Nero Wolfe. | |
| 1913 | Mary Martin, American actress. | |
| 1925 | Martin Rodbell, Nobel Prize-winning biochemist. | |
| 1935 | Woody Allen [Allen Stewart Konigsberg], American actor, writer and director (Annie Hall). | |
| 1940 | Richard Pryor, influential comedian, actor, satirist. | |
| 1945 | Bette Midler, singer, songwriter, actress, producer; her awards include 3 Grammys, 4 Golden Globes, 3 Emmys and a special Tony for her contribution to Broadway (1974). | |
| 1949 | Pablo Escobar, Colombian drug lord whose Medellin Cartel killed thousands. | |
| 1958 | Candace Bushnell, author (Sex and the City, The Carrie Diaries). | |
| 1966 | Andrew Adamson, New Zealand film director, producer, screenwriter (Shrek; The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe); he was made a member of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2006. | |
