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
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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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12.11
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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
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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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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 11
| 1688 | James II abdicates the throne because of William of Orange landing in England. | |
| 1816 | Indiana is admitted to the Union as the 19th state. | |
| 1861 | A raging fire sweeps the business district of Charleston, South Carolina, adding to an already depressed economic state. | |
| 1862 | Union General Ambrose Burnside occupies Fredericksburg and prepares to attack the Confederates under Robert E. Lee. | |
| 1863 | Union gunboats Restless, Bloomer and Caroline enter St. Andrew's Bay, Fla., and begin bombardment of both Confederate quarters and saltworks. | |
| 1882 | A production of Gilbert and Sullivan's Iolanthe at Boston's Bijou Theatre becomes the first performance in a theatre lit by incandescent electric lights. | |
| 1927 | Nearly 400 world leaders sign a letter to President Calvin Coolidge asking the United States to join the World Court. | |
| 1930 | As the economic crisis grows, the Bank of the United States closes its doors. | |
| 1933 | Reports say Paraguay has captured 11,000 Bolivians in the war over Chaco. | |
| 1936 | Britain's King Edward VIII abdicates the throne to marry American Wallis Warfield Simpson. | |
| 1941 | The United States declares war on Italy and Germany. | |
| 1943 | U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull demands that Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria withdraw from the war. | |
| 1945 | A Boeing B-29 Superfortress shatters all records by crossing the United States in five hours and 27 minutes. | |
| 1951 | Joe DiMaggio announces his retirement from baseball. | |
| 1955 | Israel raids Syrian positions on the Sea of Galilee. | |
| 1964 | Frank Sinatra, Jr., is returned home to his parents after being kidnapped for the ransom amount of $240,000. | |
| 1967 | The Concorde, a joint British-French venture and the world's first supersonic airliner, is unveiled in Toulouse, France. | |
| 1972 | Challenger, the lunar lander for Apollo 17, touches down on the moon's surface, the last time that men visit the moon. | |
| 1978 | Massive demonstrations take place in Tehran against the shah. | |
| 1981 | Military forces in El Salvador kill over 800 civilians in what is known as the El Mozote massacre during the Salvadoran Civil War. | |
| 1997 | The Kyoto Protocol international treaty intended to reduce emissions of greenhouse gasses, opens for signature. | |
| 2001 | People's Republic of China joins the World Trade Organization. | |
| 2005 | Cronulla riots begin in Cronulla, a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. | |
| 2006 | President of Mexico Felipe Calderon launches a military-led offensive against drug cartel violence in the state of Michoacan. | |
| 2008 | Bernard "Bernie" Madoff arrested and charged with securities fraud in what was called a $50-billion Ponzi scheme. | |
| Born on December 11 | ||
| 1803 | Hector Berlioz, French composer and conductor (Symphonie Fantastique, La Damnation de Faust). | |
| 1843 | Robert Koch, physician and medical researcher. | |
| 1882 | Fiorella H. La Guardia, mayor of New York City from 1933 to 1945. | |
| 1911 | Naguib Mahfouz, Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian novelist. | |
| 1918 | Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer and winner of the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize. Famous for The Gulag Archipelago. | |
| 1922 | Grace Paley, short story writer. | |
| 1926 | Willie "Big Mama" Thorton, blues singer. | |
| 1937 | Jim Harrison, novelist and poet (Legends of the Fall). | |
| 1939 | Tom McGuane, novelist and screenwriter (The Sporting Club, Bushwacked Piano). | |
| 1939 | Tom Hayden, social and political activist; author, politician. | |
| 1940 | Donna Mills, actress (Knots Landing TV series, Play Misty for Me movie). | |
| 1943 | John Kerry, politician; unsuccessful Democratic nominee for President of the United States (2004); secretary of state (2013– ). | |
| 1944 | Teri Garr, actress, dancer (Tootsie, Mr. Mom). | |
| 1944 | Brenda Lee, singer; her 37 US chart hits in the 1960s is surpassed only by Elvis Presley, The Beatles, Ray Charles and Connie Francis ("I'm Sorry," "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree"). | |
| 1950 | Christina Onassis, businesswoman; inherited and operated the Onassis shipping businessh. | |
| 1981 | Hamish Blake, Australian comedian, actor, author; won Gold Logie Award for "Most Popular Personality on Television"; half of award-winning comedy duo Hamish and Andy (Andy Lee). | |
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