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!
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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Mrs. Perkins wants everyone to get into the holiday spirit. Click the link below.
Announcements:.
Dollar Dress down is Thursday.
Movie and PJ Day is Friday
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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.
Interesting facts about Christmas:
http://www.allthingschristmas.com/traditions.html1. 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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12.15
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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!!!!!!!; Dollar Dress Down Day; Staff Dress Down Day; 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 Movie and PJ day; Ugly Sweater Dress Down Day
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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
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Water Day
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On This Day in World History
| 1862 | Nathan Bedford Forrest crosses the Tennessee River at Clifton with 2,500 men to raid the communications around Vicksburg, Mississippi. | |
| 1862 | In New Orleans, Louisiana, Union Major General Benjamin F. Butler turns his command over to Nathaniel Banks. The citizens of New Orleans hold farewell parties for Butler, "The Beast" – but only after he leaves. | |
| 1864 | The battle at Nashville begins. | |
| 1890 | As U.S. Army soldiers attempt to arrest Sitting Bull at his cabin in Standing Rock, South Dakota, shooting breaks out and Lt. Bullhead shoots the great Sioux leader. | |
| 1903 | The British parliament places a 15-year ban on whale hunting in Norway. | |
| 1920 | China wins a place on the League Council; Austria is admitted. | |
| 1924 | The Soviet Union warns the United States against repeated entry of ships into Soviet territorial waters. | |
| 1938 | Washington sends its fourth note to Berlin demanding amnesty for Jews. | |
| 1944 | The battle for Luzon begins. | |
| 1946 | Vietnam leader Ho Chi Minh sends a note to the new French Premier, Leon Blum, asking for peace talks. | |
| 1961 | Adolf Eichmann, the former German Gestapo official accused of a major role in the Nazi murder of 6 million Jews, is sentenced by a Jerusalem court to be hanged. | |
| 1965 | The United States drops 12 tons of bombs on an industrial center near Haiphong Harbor, North Vietnam. | |
| 1967 | President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the meat bill in the presence of Upton Sinclair, the author of the controversial book The Jungle. | |
| 1972 | The Commonwealth of Australia orders equal pay for women. | |
| 1973 | The American Psychiatric Association votes 130 to remove homosexuality from its official list of psychiatric disorders. | |
| 1976 | The oil tanker MV Argo Merchant causes one of the worst marine oil spills in history when it runs aground near Nantucket, Massachusetts. | |
| 1978 | US President Jimmy Carter announces the United States will recognize the People's Republic of China and will sever all relations with Taiwan. | |
| 1981 | In what is often called the first modern suicide bombing, a suicide car bomb kills 61 people at the Iraqi embassy in Beirut, Lebanon; Iraq's ambassador to Lebanon is among the casualties. | |
| 1993 | The Downing Street Declaration, issued jointly by UK and the Republic of Ireland, affirms the UK would transfer Northern Ireland to the Republic of Ireland only if a majority of Northern Ireland's people approved. | |
| 2001 | The Leaning Tower of Pisa reopens after an 11-year, $27 million project to fortify it without eliminating its famed lean. | |
| 2005 | F-22 Raptor Stealth fighter enters active service with the US Air Force. | |
| Born on December 15 | ||
| 37 | Nero Claudius Caesar, emperor of Rome, blamed for the great fire of Rome. | |
| 1832 | Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, designer of the famous tower in Paris. | |
| 1883 | William A. Hinton, developer of the "Hinton Test" for diagnosing syphilis. | |
| 1892 | J. Paul Getty, American oilman and art collector.. | |
| 1907 | Oscar Niemeyer, Brazilian architect who designed the Uited Nations Headquarters building. | |
| 1911 | Nicholas P. Dallis, a psychiatrist turner comic strip writer who created the long-running strips Rex Morgan, M.D., Judge Parker, and Apartment 3-G. | |
| 1916 | Maurice Wilkins, New Zealand-English physicist and molecular biologist; received Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1962). | |
| 1919 | Max Yasgur, whose New York farm became the site of the Woodstock music festival in August 1969. | |
| 1923 | Uziel Gal, German-Israeli firearm designer, best known for designing the Uzi submachine gun. | |
| 1933 | Tim Conway, actor, screenwriter, producer, known for his comedic roles in TV and film that he frequently improvised (The Carol Burnett Show TV series). | |
| 1942 | Dave Clark, singer, songwriter, drummer, producer; lead singer of The Dave Clark Five. | |
| 1979 | Adam Brody, actor (Gilmore Girls and The O.C. TV series). | |
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