Friday, November 21, 2014

November 21, 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:

It's Friday!  
Game day is today.  Here is the schedule.
9:35-10:20    Kindergarten in the Cafeteria

10:30-11:00   3rd gr in the Media Center

11:50-12:20    2nd gr in the Media Center

12:20-1:00    1st gr in the Media Center

1:00-1:30        5th gr in the Media Center

1:30-2:00        4th gr in the Media Center
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


 Friday'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





11.21
4
D
Y

Game Day!!!!!! Woop Woop!
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 21
1620Leaders of the Mayflower expedition frame the "Mayflower Compact," designed to bolster unity among the settlers.
1783Jean de Rozier and the Marquis d'Arlandes make the first free-flight ascent in a balloon to over 500 feet in Paris.
1789North Carolina ratifies the Constitution, becoming the 12th state to do it.
1855Franklin Colman, a pro-slavery Missourian, guns down Charles Dow, a Free Stater from Ohio, near Lawrence, Kansas.
1864From Georgia, Confederate General John B. Hood launches the Franklin-Nashville Campaign into Tennessee.
1904Motorized omnibuses replace horse-drawn cars in Paris.
1906In San Juan, President Theodore Roosevelt pledges citizenship for Puerto Rican people.
1907Cunard liner Mauritania sets a new speed record for steamship travel, 624 nautical miles in a one day run.
1911Suffragettes storm Parliament in London. All are arrested and all choose prison terms.
1917German ace Rudolf von Eschwege is killed over Macedonia when he attacks a booby-trapped observation balloon packed with explosives.
1918The last German troops leave Alsace-Lorraine, France.
1927Police turn machine guns on striking Colorado mine workers, killing five and wounding 20.
1934A New York court rules Gloria Vanderbilt unfit for custody of her daughter.
1934Cole Porter's musical Anything Goes premieres at New York's Alvin Theatre.
1949The United Nations grants Libya its independence by 1952.
1967President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the air quality act, allotting $428 million for the fight against pollution.
1970U.S. planes conduct widespread bombing raids in North Vietnam.
1985US Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Pollard arrested for spying and passing classified information to Israel; he received a life sentence on Nov. 1, 1987.
1986The Justice Department begins an inquiry into the National Security Council into what will become known as the Iran-Contra scandal.
1995The Dayton Peace Agreement is initialed at Wright Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio; the agreement, formally ratified in Paris on Dec. 14, ends the three-and-a-half year war between Bosnia and Herzegovina.
2006Anti-Syrian Lebanese Minister and MP Pierre Gemayel assassinated in Beirut.
Born on November 21
1694Voltaire (Francois-Marie Arouet), French philosopher, historian, poet, dramatist and novelist.
1898Rene Magritte, surrealist painter (Golconda).
1904Coleman Hawkins, jazz saxophonist.
1908Elizabeth G. Speare, writer of historical novels for children.
1920Stan "The Man" Musial, Hall of Fame baseball player for the St. Louis Cardinals.
1929Marilyn French, novelist and critic (The Women's Room).
1936Victor Chang, Chinese Australian cardiac surgeon who pioneered the development of an artificial heart valve.
1944Dick Durbin, D-Illinois, US Senate Majority Whip (2007 – ).
1944Earl "The Pearl" Monroe, pro basketball player known for his flamboyant playing style.
1945Goldie Hawn, actress, director, producer; gained public attention as part of Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In TV series in the 1960s; won Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Cactus Flower (1969).
1948George Zimmer, businessman; founded Men's Wearhouse.
1966Troy Aikman, pro football quarterback; led Dallas Cowboys to three Super Bowl victories; member of Pro Football Hall of Fame and College Football Hall of Fame.
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