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?
Mrs. Perkins wants everyone to get into the holiday spirit. Click the link below.
Announcements:
Today is our Science fair. Thanks to Smith and D for all of their hard work. It is not an easy task to put a science fair together.
Congratulations to our award winners:
1. The Chariots of Fire Award: for going the extra mile-Arora
2. The Duct Tape Award: for being able to fix anything-Bushey
3. The Running with the Bulls Award: for being a risk taker-Simmons
4. The Schwarzenegger Award: for pumping us up and keeping us motivated-Canty
And.....The Iron Chef Award for filling our building with international aroma:
Joseph King
and Mr. King, if you did not know, read the sign below
AND....... A Big Congratulations to our Teacher of the Year
Karen Johnson
(picture coming soon)
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).
Are your kids more active/talkative lately? Remember Tis' the Season. Don't fight the extra energy---harness. The next two weeks are perfect for group work, collaborative learning, discovery activities--etc. If you try to make them sit and do seat work this time of year, you may be setting up your class and yourself to fail. If you need to take more breaks during the day.
The videos and links below can help.
1. Quick Brain Breaks to use with your students.
Here is a list of the activities and times during the video
Ear and Nose (0:30)
Lap Clap (1:30)
Vowels ( 3:00)
Flamingo (5:00)
Numbers ( 6:50)
Dancing (11:15)
Fish and Snake (14:00)
Tap Your Head and Rub Your Tummy (16:50)
YMCA (19:45)
5 Little Monkey's (22:50)
Let's Go Swimming (25:00)
Let's Make a Pie (28:20)
Ear and Nose (0:30)
Lap Clap (1:30)
Vowels ( 3:00)
Flamingo (5:00)
Numbers ( 6:50)
Dancing (11:15)
Fish and Snake (14:00)
Tap Your Head and Rub Your Tummy (16:50)
YMCA (19:45)
5 Little Monkey's (22:50)
Let's Go Swimming (25:00)
Let's Make a Pie (28:20)
http://www.teachhub.com/top-10-holiday-learning-activities
When all else fails: dancing is always fun
http://teachtrainlove.com/brain-break-videos-the-ultimate-holiday-collection/
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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12.10
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2
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D
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Y
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Speas Science Fair
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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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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; Johnson 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!!!!!!!; 3rd-5th Trip to WFU Game; 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; PBIS incentive
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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
|
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
|
Water Day
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On This Day in World History
December 10
| 1817 | Mississippi is admitted as the 20th state. | |
| 1861 | Kentucky is admitted to the Confederate States of America. | |
| 1862 | The U.S. House of Representatives passes a bill creating the state of West Virginia. | |
| 1869 | Governor John Campbell signs the bill that grants women in Wyoming Territory the right to vote as well as hold public office. | |
| 1898 | The United States and Spain sign the Treaty of Paris, ceding Spanish possessions, including the Philippines, to the United States. | |
| 1917 | The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to the International Red Cross. | |
| 1918 | U.S. troops are called to guard Berlin as a coup is feared. | |
| 1919 | Captain Ross Smith becomes the first person to fly 11,500 miles from England to Australia. | |
| 1936 | Edward VIII abdicates to marry Wallis Warfield Simpson, an American-born divorcee. | |
| 1941 | Japanese troops invade the Philippine island of Luzon. | |
| 1941 | The siege of Tobruk in North Africa is raised. | |
| 1943 | Franklin D. Roosevelt signs a bill that postpones a draft of pre-Pearl Harbor fathers. | |
| 1943 | Allied forces bomb Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. | |
| 1949 | 150,000 French troops mass at the border in Vietnam to prevent a Chinese invasion. | |
| 1950 | Dr. Ralph J. Bunche becomes the first African-American to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. | |
| 1977 | On UN Human Rights Day, the Soviet Union places 20 prominent dissidents under house arrest, cutting off telephones and threatening to break up a planned silent demonstration in Moscow's Pushkin Square. Soviet newspapers decry human rights violations elsewhere in the world. | |
| 1978 | President of Egypt Anwar Sadat and Prime Minister of Israel Menachem Begin are jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. | |
| 1983 | Democracy restored to Argentina with the assumption of Raul Alfonsin. | |
| 1989 | Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj announces the establishment of Mongolia's democratic movement that changes the second oldest communist country into a democracy. | |
| 1993 | The Wearmouth Colliery in Sunderland, East England, closes, marking the end of the County Durham coalfield, which had been in operation since the Middle Ages. | |
| Born on December 10 | ||
| 1830 | Emily Dickinson, American poet of more than 1,000 poems, seven published in her lifetime. | |
| 1851 | Melvil Dewey, American librarian who created the Dewey Decimal System. | |
| 1881 | Viscount Alexander of Tunis, British soldier who took his title from his part in the Allied victories in North Africa. | |
| 1891 | Nelly Sachs, Nobel Prize-winning poet. | |
| 1903 | Mary Norton, English children's author (Bedknobs and Broomsticks). | |
| 1907 | Rumor Godden, English novelist (Black Narcissus). | |
| 1908 | Oliver Messian, French composer (Quartet for the End of Time). | |
| 1911 | Chester "Chet" Huntley, American broadcast journalist. | |
| 1914 | Dorothy Lamour, actress, best remembered for co-starring with Bing Crosby and Bob Hope in their "Road to" movie series. | |
| 1922 | Agnes Nixon, writer, producer; creator of long-running TV soap operas (One Life to Live, All My Children). | |
| 1934 | Howard Martin Temin, geneticist; shared 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. | |
| 1941 | Chad Stuart, singer, musician; half of the Chad & Jeremy folk rock duo. | |
| 1948 | Abu Abbas (Muhammad Zaidan, Muhammad Abbas), a founder of the Palestine Liberation Front; led terrorist hijacking of cruise ship Achille Lauro. | |
| 1956 | Rod Blagojevich, 40th Governor of Illinois; arrested on federal charges of trying to sell the US Senate seat of President-elect Barack Obama. | |
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