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.
Check out Mrs. Z's Global World Wall (Great Idea!)
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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Announcements:
Important Visitor(s) in the building today from the NC House Committee on Innovation in Education. (yes, people; we are that good--you should be very proud of yourselves) Please be on your best behavior.
AR Party today. If you have kids who made it; make a big deal about congratulating them in front of your other kids.
http://www.symbaloo.com/home/mix/13eOcMEZPT#
Please email us with your favorite educator sites so we can create a huge selection of online resources.
Important Visitor(s) in the building today from the NC House Committee on Innovation in Education. (yes, people; we are that good--you should be very proud of yourselves) Please be on your best behavior.
AR Party today. If you have kids who made it; make a big deal about congratulating them in front of your other kids.
Did you know that this week is International Education Week?
Are you doing anything to celebrate? If you need some inspiration, try VIF's toolkit.
If you are doing something this week, let us know. We'd love to come and be a part of it.
In honor of this week, we are posting International Idioms on the blog everyday. Not international idiots, idioms.
Monday's Idiom
New Speas Elementary Symbaloo page for quick references for a multitude of sites:
http://www.symbaloo.com/home/mix/13eOcMEZPT#
Please email us with your favorite educator sites so we can create a huge selection of online resources.
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
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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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11.17
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6
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E
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X
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NC House comm. On Ed.
Innovation visit 8:45-11:00; AR Party 1:15-2:15
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11.18
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1
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A
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Y
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4/5 Assembly Café 9 AM WS Symphony; Committee Meetings; District
Recognition of PBIS team at School Board Meeting 6:30 PM; Ash out AM-meeting,
Parent Visitation Day K-1
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11.19
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2
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B
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Y
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Visitation Day 2-3
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11.20
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3
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C
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Y
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Visitation Day 4-5; 3rd Grade Puppet Show 9 AM; Paisley
Int. Festival 5:30 PM $5
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11.21
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4
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D
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Y
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|
|
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11.24
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5
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E
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Y
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|
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11.25
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6
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A
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X
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Johnson out AM; Zumbathon fundraiser
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|
|
|
|
|
|
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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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|
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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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|
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12.7
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|
|
|
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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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|
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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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|
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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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|
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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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|
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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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Student Gift Bags go home; Spelling Bee
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12.20-1.5
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|
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No School, Winter Vacation
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12.22
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|
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Happy Birthday K. Johnson!!!!!!!
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12.23
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|
|
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Happy Birthday Vidal Cuenca!!!!!!!!
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12.28
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|
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Happy Birthday Lindquist!!!!!!!
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12.29
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|
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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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|
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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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|
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1.12
|
3
|
B
|
X
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Quarter Test window
opens
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1.13
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4
|
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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|
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1.15
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6
|
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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|
|
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Happy Birthday Bumbrey!!!!!!!
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1.20
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|
|
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Happy Birthday Linville!!!!!!!!!
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1.21
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2
|
B
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Y
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|
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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
|
D
|
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
|
E
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Y
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|
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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
|
2
|
C
|
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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|
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Ash out AM; Access
Testing window opens
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2.4
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|
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2.5
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|
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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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|
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IC meeting learning walks
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2.11
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|
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Early Release
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2.12
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|
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Ash out AM; Canty Out-Meeting
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2.13
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|
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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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|
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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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|
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3.1
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|
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3.7
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|
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Happy Birthday Faragher!!!!!!
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3.12
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|
|
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Ash out AM; Chik-fil-A Spirit Night
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3.14
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|
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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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|
|
|
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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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|
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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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|
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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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|
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Report Cards go home
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4.16
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|
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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
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
On This Day in World History
Today in History
| November 17 | ||
| 375 | Enraged by the insolence of barbarian envoys, Valentinian, the Emperor of the West, dies of apoplexy in Pannonia in Central Europe. | |
| 1558 | Queen Elizabeth ascends to the throne of England. | |
| 1558 | The Church of England is re-established. | |
| 1636 | Henrique Dias, Brazilian general, wins a decisive battle against the Dutch in Brazil. | |
| 1796 | Napoleon Bonaparte defeats an Italian army near the Alpone River, Italy. | |
| 1800 | The Sixth Congress (2nd session) convenes for the first time in Washington, D.C. | |
| 1842 | A grim abolitionist meeting is held in Marlboro Chapel, Boston, after the imprisonment of a mulatto named George Latimer, one of the first fugitive slaves to be apprehended in Massachusetts. | |
| 1862 | Union General Ambrose Burnside marches north out of Washington, D.C., to begin theFredericksburg campaign. | |
| 1869 | The Suez Canal is formally opened. | |
| 1877 | Russia launches a surprise night attack that overruns Turkish forces at Kars, Armenia. | |
| 1885 | The Serbian Army, with Russian support, invades Bulgaria. | |
| 1903 | Vladimir Lenin's efforts to impose his own radical views on the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party splits the party into two factions, the Bolsheviks, who support Lenin, and the Mensheviks. | |
| 1913 | The first ship sails through the Panama Canal, which connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. | |
| 1918 | Influenza deaths reported in the United States have far exceeded World War I casualties. | |
| 1918 | German troops evacuate Brussels. | |
| 1931 | Charles Lindbergh inaugurates Pan Am service from Cuba to South America in the Sikorsky flying boat American Clipper. | |
| 1941 | German Luftwaffe general and World War I fighter-ace Ernst Udet commits suicide. The Nazi government tells the public that he died in a flying accident. | |
| 1951 | Britain reports development of the world's first nuclear-powered heating system. | |
| 1965 | The NVA ambushes American troops of the 7th Cavalry at Landing Zone Albany in the Ia Drang Valley, almost wiping them out. | |
| 1967 | The American Surveyor 6 makes a six-second flight on the moon, the first liftoff on the lunar surface. | |
| 1970 | Soviet unmanned Luna 17 touches down on the moon. | |
| 1980 | WHHM Television in Washington, D.C., becomes the first African-American public-broadcasting television station. | |
| 1986 | Renault President Georges Besse is shot to death by leftists of the Direct Action Group in Paris. | |
| 1989 | Student demonstration in Prague put down by riot police, leading to an uprising (the Velvet Revolution) that will topple the communist government on Dec. 29. | |
| 1993 | US House of Representatives passes resolution to establish the North American Free Trade Agreement. | |
| 1993 | Gen. Sani Abacha leads a military coup in Nigeria that overthrows the government of Ernest Shonekan. | |
| 2000 | Controversial President of Peru Alberto Fujimori removed from office. | |
Born on November 17 | ||
| 1755 | Louis XVIII, King of France. | |
| 1887 | Bernard Law Montgomery, British field marshal who defeated Rommel in North Africa and led Allied troops from D-Day to the end of World War II. | |
| 1902 | Eugene Paul Wigner, Hungarian-born physicist. | |
| 1916 | Shelby Foote, American writer, famous for his three-volume narrative on America's Civil War. | |
| 1925 | Rock Hudson, actor (McMillan & Wife TV series; Giant). | |
| 1938 | Gordon Lightfoot, Canadian singer, songwriter, musician ("Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," "In the Early Morning Rain"). | |
| 1942 | Martin Scorsese, film director (Taxi Driver, Raging Bull). | |
| 1944 | Gene Clark, singer, songwriter; member of the bands The Byrds, The New Christy Minstrels, and Dillard & Clark. | |
| 1944 | Danny DeVito, actor, director, producer (Taxi TV series; Throw Momma from the Train,Pulp Fiction). | |
| 1944 | Lorne Michaels, israeli-American TV producer; created Saturday Night Live. | |
| 1949 | Nguyen Tan Dung, Prime Minister of Vietnam (2006– ) | |
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