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:
Tuesday's Idiom
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.
Shout Outs to J. Lee and C. Canty for making it happen on Friday with the 5th grade Boot Camp.
and to S. Childers and her crew for making the fiesta happen.
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
Tuesday'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.
Shout Outs to J. Lee and C. Canty for making it happen on Friday with the 5th grade Boot Camp.
and to S. Childers and her crew for making the fiesta happen.
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
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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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11.18
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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
| ||
11.24
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5
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E
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Y
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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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12.1
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1
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B
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X
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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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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
|
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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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
|
Happy Birthday Higgins!!!!!!!
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1.1
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Happy Birthday Farra!!!!!!!!
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1.2
|
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
| |
1.7
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6
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D
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Y
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Canty Out-Meeting
| |
1.8
|
1
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E
|
Y
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Subway Night
| |
1.9
|
2
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A
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X
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1.12
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3
|
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
|
C
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X
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CWT Review
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1.14
|
5
|
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
|
Happy Birthday Bumbrey!!!!!!!
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1.20
|
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
|
4
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D
|
Y
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Happy Birthday Brown!!!!!!!!
| |
1.24
|
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
|
2
|
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!!!!!!!
| ||||
2.10
|
IC meeting learning walks
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2.11
|
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
| ||||
2.15
|
Happy Birthday Cartwright!!!!!!!
| ||||
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
|
Ash out AM
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2.24
| |||||
2.25
|
Johnson out AM
| ||||
2.26
|
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!!!!!!
| ||||
3.12
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Ash out AM; Chik-fil-A Spirit Night
| ||||
3.14
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Access Testing window closes
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3.17
|
Canty Out-Meeting
| ||||
3.19
|
Evan w/ Teachers; Happy Birthday Pfitzner!!!!!!!; Yoforia Spirit Night
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3.23
|
Quarter Testing Begins Happy Birthday Smith!!!!!!!
| ||||
3.25
|
Johnson out AM
| ||||
3.27
|
Johnson out; Quarter Testing Ends Happy Birthday Ferguson!!!!!!!
| ||||
3.29
|
Happy Birthday Mitchell!!!!!!!!
| ||||
4.7
|
Ash out AM
| ||||
4.8
|
Evan mtg w/grade levels
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4.9
|
Quarterly Awards
| ||||
4.10
|
1st Grade Dan Nicholas Park 8:30-2:00
| ||||
4.13
|
Canty out-training
| ||||
4.14
|
Report Cards go home
| ||||
4.16
|
Ash out AM; Yoforia Spirit Night
| ||||
4.17
|
Kids Night In Movie Night
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4.21
|
IC mtg. Instr. strategies
| ||||
4.22
|
Johnson out- AM
| ||||
4.23
|
Johnson out
| ||||
4.26
| |||||
5.1
|
Canty out meeting
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5.5
|
Ash out AM
| ||||
5.14
|
Ash out AM; Papa Murphy’s Spirit Night
| ||||
5.7
|
4th Grade Heritage Theater, New Winston Museum
| ||||
5.20
|
Johnson out AM
| ||||
5.22
|
1st Grade NC Zoo 8:00-2:00 PM; Yoforia Movie Night; Ready EOG window opens
| ||||
6.5
|
Ready EOG window closes
| ||||
6.7
|
Water Day
|
On This Day in World History
Today in History
| ovember 18 | ||
| 1477 | William Claxton publishes the first dated book printed in England. It is a translation from the French of The Dictes and Sayings of the Philosopers by Earl Rivers. | |
| 1626 | St. Peter's Cathedral in Rome is officially dedicated. | |
| 1861 | The first provisional meeting of the Confederate Congress is held in Richmond, Virginia. | |
| 1865 | Mark Twain's first story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is published in the New York Saturday Press. | |
| 1901 | The second Hay-Pauncefote Treaty is signed. The United States is given extensive rights by Britain for building and operating a canal through Central America. | |
| 1905 | The Norwegian Parliament elects Prince Charles of Denmark to be the next King of Norway. Prince Charles takes the name Haakon VII. | |
| 1906 | Anarchists bomb St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. | |
| 1912 | Cholera breaks out in Constantinople, in the Ottoman Empire. | |
| 1921 | New York City considers varying work hours to avoid long traffic jams. | |
| 1928 | Mickey mouse makes his film debut in Steamboat Willie, the first animated talking picture. | |
| 1936 | The main span of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco is joined. | |
| 1939 | The Irish Republican Army explodes three bombs in Piccadilly Circus. | |
| 1943 | RAF bombs Berlin, using 440 aircraft and losing nine of those and 53 air crew members; damage to the German capital is light, with 131 dead. | |
| 1949 | The U.S. Air Force grounds B-29s after two crashes and 23 deaths in three days. | |
| 1950 | The Bureau of Mines discloses its first production of oil from coal in practical amounts. | |
| 1968 | Soviets recover the Zond 6 spacecraft after a flight around the moon. | |
| 1978 | Peoples Temple cult leader Jim Jones leads his followers to a mass murder-suicide in Jonestown, Guyana, hours after cult member killed Congressman Leo J. Ryan of California. | |
| 1983 | Argentina announces its ability to produce enriched uranium for nuclear weapons. | |
| 1984 | The Soviet Union helps deliver American wheat during the Ethiopian famine. | |
| 1991 | The Croatian city of Vukovar surrenders to Yugoslav People's Army and allied Serb paramilitary forces after an 87-day siege. | |
| 1993 | Twenty-one political parties approve a new constitution for South Africa that expands voter rights and ends the rule of the country's white minority. | |
| 2002 | UN weapons inspectors under Hans Blix arrive in Iraq. | |
| 2003 | Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court rules the state's ban on same-sex marriages is unconstitutional; the legislature fails to act within the mandated 180 days, and on May 17, 2004, Massachusetts becomes the first US state to legalize same-sex marriage. | |
| Born on November 18 | ||
| 1789 | Louis Jacques Daguerre, French painter, physicist and photography pioneer. | |
| 1810 | Asa Gray, botanist (Gray's Manual). | |
| 1836 | William S. Gilbert, English playwright and humorist, one half of Gilbert & Sullivan. | |
| 1870 | Dorthea Dix, pseudonym for Elizabeth Gilman, who wrote syndicated advice. | |
| 1874 | Clarence Day, American writer (Life with Father). | |
| 1899 | Eugene Ormandy, orchestra conductor. | |
| 1900 | Dr. Howard Thurman, theologian and first African American to hold a full-time position at Boston University. | |
| 1901 | George Horatio Gallup, American journalist and statistician. | |
| 1909 | Johnny Mercer, songwriter. | |
| 1923 | Alan Shepard, first American astronaut in space. | |
| 1939 | Margaret Atwood, Canadian writer (The Edible Woman, The Handmaid's Tale). | |
| 1950 | Graham Parker, lead singer of the British rock band Graham Parker and the Rumour. | |
| 1950 | Alan Moore, writer best known for his ground-breaking work in comic books / graphic novels (Watchmen, V for Vendetta). | |
| 1956 | Warren Moon, quarterback in Canadian and US pro football teams; his numerous passing records include most passing yardage in pro football (surpassed by Damon Allen, Sept. 4, 2006). | |
| 1974 | Chloe Sevigny, American actress, model and fashion designer noted for her eclectic fashion sense. | |
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