Thursday, November 20, 2014

November 20, 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


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
Teacher
Location
A
Arora
Room 213
B
Bowen
Music
C
King
Art
D
Childers/McMasters
Media/CL
E
Lindquist
Gym

Announcements:

Last day of parent visits.
3rd Grade Puppet Show 9 AM
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

Wednesday's Idiom

 Thursday's Idiom

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.  

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
PLT
Encore
T/M
Gym
Events/Reminders





11.20
3
C
Y

Visitation Day 4-5; 3rd Grade Puppet Show 9 AM; Paisley Int. Festival 5:30 PM $5
11.21
4
D
Y


11.24
5
E
Y

Called Staff meeting
11.25
6
A
X

Johnson out AM






12.1
1
B
X


12.2
2
C
X

Ash out-meeting
12.3
3
D
X

Happy Birthday Stokes!!!!!!!
12.4
4
E
X

Indian Dance Assemblies K-2 9 AM, 3-5 10:15
12.5
5
A
Y


12.7




Happy Birthday Spainhour!!!!!!
12.8
6
B
Y


12.9
1
C
Y

Staff Meeting;  IC meeting SIP review
12.10
2
D
Y


12.11
3
E
Y

Johnson out meeting; Papa Murphy’s Spirit Night, Staff Holiday Luncheon
12.12
4
A
X

Hooker out
12.15
5
B
X


12.16
6
C
X

Committee Meetings
12.17
1
D
X


12.18
2
E
X

Happy Birthday SR!!!!!!!; Yoforia Spirit Night; Ash out-meeting
12.19
3
A
Y

Happy Birthday Becerra!!!!!; Student Gift Bags go home; Spelling Bee 
12.20-1.5




No School, Winter Vacation
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!!!!!!!!!
1.5
4
B
Y


1.6
5
C
Y

Ash out meeting
1.7
6
D
Y

Canty Out-Meeting
1.8
1
E
Y

Subway Night
1.9
2
A
X


1.12
3
B
X

Quarter Test window opens
1.13
4
C
X

CWT Review
1.14
5
D
X


1.15
6
E
X

Happy Birthday Summey!!!!!!!!; Ash out meeting
1.16
1
A
Y

Quarter Test window closes
1.17




Happy Birthday Bumbrey!!!!!!!
1.20




Happy Birthday Linville!!!!!!!!!
1.21
2
B
Y


1.22
3
C
Y

Johnson out AM, Yoforia Spirit Night
1.23
4
D
Y

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




Happy Birthday Bushey!!!!!!!!!
1.26
5
E
Y


1.27
6
A
X

Report Cards go home
1.28
1
B
X


1.29
2
C
X

Johnson out Quarterly Awards
1.30
3
D
X


2.3




Ash out AM; Access Testing window opens
2.4





2.5





2.6





2.9




Happy Birthday Billingsley!!!!!!!
2.10




IC meeting learning walks
2.11




Early Release
2.12




Ash out AM; Canty Out-Meeting
2.13




Yoforia Movie Night
2.15




Happy Birthday Cartwright!!!!!!!
2.16




No School(workday)
2.17





2.18





2.19





2.20





2.22




Happy Birthday Cokely!!!!!!!!!!
2.23




Ash out AM
2.24





2.25




Johnson out AM
2.26




Evan meet w/grade levels; Happy Birthday Ryabova!!!!!!!!!
2.27





3.1





3.7




Happy Birthday Faragher!!!!!!
3.12




Ash out AM; Chik-fil-A Spirit Night
3.14




Access Testing window closes
3.17




Canty Out-Meeting
3.19




Evan w/ Teachers; Happy Birthday Pfitzner!!!!!!!; Yoforia Spirit Night
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
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
4.21




IC mtg.  Instr. strategies
4.22




Johnson out- AM
4.23




Johnson out
4.26





5.1




Canty out meeting
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
November 20
269 Diocletian is proclaimed emperor of Numerian in Asia Minor by his soldiers. He had been the commander of the emperor's bodyguard.
1695 Zumbi dos Palmares, the Brazilian leader of a 100-year-old rebel slave group, is killed in an ambush.
1700 Sweden's 17-year-old King Charles XII defeats the Russians at Narva.
1903 In Cheyenne, Wyoming, 42-year-old hired gunman Tom Horn is hanged for the murder of 14-year-old Willie Nickell.
1914 Bulgaria proclaims its neutrality in the First World War.
1928 Mrs. Glen Hyde becomes the first woman to dare the Grand Canyon rapids in a scow (a flat-bottomed boat that is pushed along with a pole).
1931 Japan and China reject the League of Council terms for Manchuria at Geneva.
1943 U.S. Army and Marine soldiers attack the Japanese-held islands of Makin and Tarawa, respectively, in the Central Pacific.
1945 The Nazi war crime trials begin at Nuremberg.
1947 Princess Elizabeth (future Queen Elizabeth II) marries Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, in Westminster Abbey.
1950 U.S. troops push to the Yalu River, within five miles of Manchuria.
1955 The Maryland National Guard is ordered desegregated.
1962 President John F. Kennedy bars religious or racial discrimination in federally funded housing.
1967 U.S. census reports the population at 200 million.
1971 The United States announces it will give Turkey $35 million for farmers who agree to stop growing opium poppies.
1974 The United States files an antitrust suit to break up ATT.
1978 South Africa backs down on a plan to install black rule in neighboring Namibia.
1981 Microsoft Windows 1.0 released.
1992 Fire in England's Windsor Castle causes over £50 million in damages.
1998 First module of the International Space Station, Zarya, is launched.
2008 Dow Jones Industrial Average sinks to lowest level in 11 years in response to failures in the US financial system.
Born on November 20
1858 Selma Lagerdorf, Swedish novelist (The Story of Gosta Berling).
1889 Edwin Hubble, American astronomer who proved that there are other galaxies far from our own.
1908 Alistair Cooke, English journalist, television host.
1916 Thomas McGrath, poet and novelist.
1923 Nadine Gordimer, Nobel Prize-winning South African novelist.
1925 Robert F. Kennedy, U.S. Attorney General, New York senator and brother of PresidentJohn F. Kennedy. He was assassinated while running for president.
1936 Don DeLillo, author (White Noise, Libra).
1939 Dick Smothers, actor, singer; half of the Smothers Brothers whose controversial comedy-variety TV show challenged censorship boundaries in the 1960s, finally resulting in cancellation in 1969.
1942 Joe Biden, politician; US Senator from Delaware (1973–2009); President Barack Obama's vice-president, beginning in 2009
1946 Duane Allman, singer, songwriter, musician; co-founder and primary leader of the The Allman Brothers Band until his death in 1971.
1963 Wan Yanhai, Chinese activist.
1975 Dierks Bentley, country singer, songwriter ("What Was I Thinkin'", "Every Mile a Memory").

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