Friday, December 12, 2014

December 12, 2014



Happy Friday From Mr. Copeland, Mr. L, and Mr. McMasters!
(click the link below)

http://www.jibjab.com/view/3pu6sES6DBtKz6irXvJ9



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.

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




Mrs. Perkins wants everyone to get into the holiday spirit.  Click the link below.
http://www.jibjab.com/view/X72wstXZoocxsx7VD2ao

Announcements:


Thank you to SR, Bushey, Lee, and everyone for the luncheon.  We certainly apprecieate all of the effort that went into it.

Next week- Dollar Dress down is Thursday.
Movie and PJ Day is Friday
No Participation list will go out on Monday.  

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.  


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).

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)


There are actually some really good ideas here.  
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
PLT
Encore
T/M
Gym
Events/Reminders





12.12
4
A
X

Hooker out; Johnson 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!!!!!!!; Dollar Dress Down Day; Staff Dress Down Day; 3rd-5th Trip to WFU Game; Ash out-meeting
12.19
3
A
Y

Happy Birthday Becerra!!!!!; Student Gift Bags go home; Spelling Bee; PBIS incentive Movie and PJ day; Ugly Sweater Dress Down Day
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




Happy Birthday Hooker; 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
December 12
1753George Washington, the adjutant of Virginia, delivers an ultimatum to the French forces at Fort Le Boeuf, south of Lake Erie, reiterating Britain's claim to the entire Ohio River valley.
1770The British soldiers responsible for the "Boston Massacre" are acquitted on murder charges.
1862The Union loses its first ship to a torpedo, USS Cairo, in the Yazoo River.
1863Orders are given in Richmond, Virginia, that no more supplies from the Union should be received by Federal prisoners.
1901Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio transmission in St. John's Newfoundland.
1927Communists forces seize Canton, China.
1930The Spanish Civil War begins as rebels take a border town.
1930The last Allied troops withdraw from the Saar region in Germany.
1931Under pressure from the Communists in Canton, Chiang Kai-shek resigns as president of the Nanking Government but remains the head of the Nationalist government that holds nominal rule over most of China.
1943The German Army launches Operation Winter Tempest, the relief of the Sixth Army trapped in Stalingrad.
1943The exiled Czech government signs a treaty with the Soviet Union for postwar cooperation.
1956The United Nations calls for immediate Soviet withdrawal from Hungary.
1964Kenya becomes a republic.
1964Three Buddhist leaders begin a hunger strike to protest the government in Saigon.
1967The United States ends the airlift of 6,500 men in Vietnam.
1979South Korean Army Major General Chun Doo-hwan, acting without authorization from President Choi Kyu-ha, orders the arrest of Army Chief of Staff General Jeong Seung-hwa, alleging that the chief of staff was involved in the assassination of ex-President Park Chung Hee.
1985Arrow Air Flight 1285 crashes after takeoff at Gander, Newfoundland; among the 256 dead are 236 members of the US Army's 101st Airborne Division.
1991The Russian Federation becomes independent from the USSR.
1995Willie Brown beats incumbent mayor Frank Jordon to become the first African-American mayor of San Francisco.
2000The US Supreme Court announces its decision in Bush v. Gore, effectively ending legal changes to the results of that year's Presidential election.
Born on December 12
1745John Jay, first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court who negotiated treaties for the United States.
1805William Lloyd Garrison, American abolitionist who published The Liberator.
1821Gustave Flaubert, French novelist (Madame Bovary, A Simple Heart).
1863Edvard Munch, Norwegian artist (The Scream).
1893Edward G. Robinson, actor famous for gangster roles.
1897Lillian Smith, Southern writer and civil rights activist.
1912Henry Jackson Jr, boxer using the name Henry Armstrong, the only fighter to hold 3 professional boxing titles simultaneously.
1915Frank Sinatra, American pop singer and actor.
1927Robert Norton Noyce, co-inventor of the integrated circuit.
1928Helen Frankenthaler, abstract painter.
1929John Osbourne, playwright and film producer (Look Back in Anger).
1938Connie Francis, singer.
1940Dionne Warwick, singer, actress.
1943Grover Washington Jr, singer, songwriter, musician, producer.
1952Cathy Rigby, gymnast, actress.

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