Tuesday, December 2, 2014

December 2, 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.

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




Here are some resources about the IB PYP Programme.

http://www.ibo.org/

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?  





Announcements:


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).

Calendar
Date
PLT
Encore
T/M
Gym
Events/Reminders




12.1
1
B
X

PBIS Assembly AM
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

2nd Grade to Ardmore Church
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




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 1
1135Henry I of England dies and the crown is passed to his nephew Stephen of Bloise.
1581Edmund Champion and other Jesuit martyrs are hanged at Tyburn, England, for sedition, after being tortured.
1861The U.S. gunboat Penguin seizes the Confederate blockade runner Albion carrying supplies worth almost $100,000.
1862President Abraham Lincoln gives the State of the Union address to the 37th Congress.
1863Belle Boyd, a Confederate spy, is released from prison in Washington.
1881Virgil, Wyatt and Morgan Earp are exonerated in court for their action in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Ariz.
1900Kaiser Wilhelm II refuses to meet with Boer leader Paul Kruger in Berlin.
1905Twenty officers and 230 guards are arrested in St. Petersburg, Russia, for the revolt at the Winter Palace.
1908The Italian Parliament debates the future of the Triple Alliance and asks for compensation for Austria's action in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
1909President William Howard Taft severs official relations with Nicaragua's Zelaya government and declares support for the revolutionaries.
1916King Constantine of Greece refuses to surrender to the Allies.
1918An American army of occupation enters Germany.
1925After a seven-year occupation, 7,000 British troops evacuate Cologne, Germany.
1933Nazi storm troops become an official organ of the Reich.
1934Josef Stalin's aide, Sergei Kirov, is assassinated in Leningrad.
1941Japan's Tojo rejects U.S. proposals for a Pacific settlement as fantastic and unrealistic.
1941Great Britain declares a state of emergency in Malaya following reports of Japanese attacks.
1941The first Civil Air Patrol is organized in the United States.
1942National gasoline rationing goes into effect in the United States.
1955Rosa Parks refuses to sit in the back of a Montgomery, Alabama, bus, defying the South's segregationist laws.
1969America's first draft lottery since 1942 is held.
1971Indian Army recaptures part of Kashmir, which had been occupied by Pakistan.
1981AIDS virus officially recognized.
1986Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North pleads the 5th Amendment before a Senate panel investigating the Iran-Contra arms sale.
1988Benazir Bhutto, politician, becomes the first woman to serve as Prime Minister of Pakistan and the first woman elected to lead a Muslim state
1989East Germany's parliament changes its constitution, abolishing a section that gave the Communist Party the leading role in the state.
1990Channel Tunnel sections from France and the UK meet beneath the English Channel.
1991Ukraine's voters overwhelmingly approve a referendum for independence from the USSR.
2001Trans World Airlines' final flight following the carrier's purchase by American Airlines; TWA began operating 76 years earlier. The final flight, 220, piloted by Capt. Bill Compton, landed at St. Louis International Airport.
Born on December 1
1761Madame Tussaud, Swiss-born modeller in wax who founded the world-famous exhibition on London's Baker Street.
1847Julia Moore, poet.
1863Oliver Herford, American humorist and poet.
1886Rex Stout, writer, creator of detective character Nero Wolfe.
1913Mary Martin, American actress.
1925Martin Rodbell, Nobel Prize-winning biochemist.
1935Woody Allen [Allen Stewart Konigsberg], American actor, writer and director (Annie Hall).
1940Richard Pryor, influential comedian, actor, satirist.
1945Bette Midler, singer, songwriter, actress, producer; her awards include 3 Grammys, 4 Golden Globes, 3 Emmys and a special Tony for her contribution to Broadway (1974).
1949Pablo Escobar, Colombian drug lord whose Medellin Cartel killed thousands.
1958Candace Bushnell, author (Sex and the CityThe Carrie Diaries).
1966Andrew Adamson, New Zealand film director, producer, screenwriter (ShrekThe Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe); he was made a member of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2006.

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