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?
Announcements:
Starting this month we want to recognize teachers and staff for all of their hard work. So please send me emails nominating staff members for the following awards:
1. The Chariots of Fire Award: for going the extra mile
2. The Duct Tape Award: for being able to fix anything
3. The Running with the Bulls Award: for being a risk taker
4. The Schwarzenegger Award: for pumping us up and keeping us motivated
In keeping with our Global Theme we will be having an Indian Dance Assembly on Thursday. Check the calendar for the schedule.
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).
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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12.3
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3
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D
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X
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Happy Birthday Stokes!!!!!!!
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12.4
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4
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E
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X
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Indian Dance Assemblies K-2 9 AM, 3-5 10:15
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12.5
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5
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A
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Y
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2nd Grade to Ardmore Church
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12.7
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Happy Birthday Spainhour!!!!!!
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12.8
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6
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B
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Y
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12.9
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1
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C
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Y
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Staff Meeting; IC meeting SIP review
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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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12.11
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3
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E
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Y
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Johnson out meeting; 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
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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!!!!!!!; Yoforia Spirit Night; 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
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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 3
| 1468 | Lorenzo the Magnificent and his brother Giuliano succeed their father, Piero de Medici, as rulers of Florence, Italy. | |
| 1762 | France cedes to Spain all lands west of the Mississippi–the territory known as Upper Louisiana. | |
| 1818 | Illinois admitted into the Union as the 21st state. | |
| 1800 | The French defeat an Austrian army at the Battle of Hohenlinden, near Munich. | |
| 1847 | Frederick Douglass and Martin R. Delaney establish the North Star, and anti-slavery paper. | |
| 1862 | Confederate raiders attack a Federal forage train on the Hardin Pike near Nashville, Tenn. | |
| 1863 | Confederate General James Longstreet moves his army east and north toward Greeneville. This withdrawal marks the end of the Fall Campaign in Tennessee. | |
| 1864 | Major General William Tecumseh Sherman meets with slight resistance from Confederate troops at Thomas Station on his march to the sea. | |
| 1906 | The U.S. Supreme Court orders Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) leaders extradited to Idaho for trial in the Steunenberg murder case. | |
| 1915 | The United States expels German attaches on spy charges. | |
| 1916 | French commander Joseph Joffre is dismissed after his failure at the Somme. General Robert Nivelle is the new French commander in chief. | |
| 1918 | The Allied Conference ends in London where they decide that Germany must pay for the war. | |
| 1925 | The League of Nations orders Greece to pay an indemnity for the October invasion of Bulgaria. | |
| 1926 | British reports claim that German soldiers are being trained in the Soviet Union. | |
| 1950 | The Chinese close in on Pyongyang, Korea, and UN forces withdraw southward. | |
| 1965 | The National Council of Churches asks the United States to halt the massive bombings in North Vietnam. | |
| 1977 | The State Department proposes the admission of 10,000 more Vietnamese refugees to the United States. | |
| 1979 | Eleven are dead and eight injured in a mad rush to see a rock band (The Who) at a concert in Cincinnati, Ohio. | |
| 1984 | Toxic gas leaks from a Union Carbide plant and results in the deaths of thousands in Bhopal, India. | |
| 1989 | Presidents George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev announce the official end to the Cold War at a meeting in Malta. | |
| 1992 | A test engineer for Sema Group sends the world's first text message, using a personal computer and the Vodafone network. | |
| 1997 | Representatives of 121 nations sign the Ottawa Treaty prohibiting the manufacture or deployment of antipersonnel landmines; the People's Republic of China, the US and the USSR do not sign. | |
| 2005 | First manned rocket aircraft delivery of US Mail takes place in Mojave, Cal. | |
| 2009 | Suicide bombing in Mogadishu, Somalia, kills 25 people, including three miniseries of the Transitional Federal Government. | |
| Born on December 3 | ||
| 1755 | Gilbert Stewart, portrait painter. | |
| 1826 | George B. McClellan, Union general who defeated Robert E. Lee at Antietam and ran against Abraham Lincoln for president. | |
| 1833 | Carlos Juan Finlay, Cuban epidemiologist. | |
| 1857 | Joseph Conrad, Polish-born novelist (Heart of Darkness, Nostromo). | |
| 1922 | Sven Nykvist, Swedish cinematographer. | |
| 1925 | Jean-Luc Godard, French film director (Breathless). | |
| 1933 | Paul Crutzen, Dutch chemist. | |
| 1934 | Abimael Guzman (Presidente Gonzalo), leader of the Shining Path Maoist guerrilla insurgency in Peru. | |
| 1937 | Morgan Llywelyn, American-born Irish author noted for historical fantasy and historical fiction novels, as well as historical nonfiction (1921, the War for Independence); received Exceptional Celtic Woman of the Year award (1999). | |
| 1948 | Ozzy Osbourne, singer, songwriter, actor; member of the influential rock band Black Sabbath; an MTV reality show, The Osbournes, followed the lives of the singer and his family (2002-05). | |
| 1951 | Rick Mears, race car driver; three-time Indycar national champion (1979, 1981, 1982). | |
| 1960 | Daryl Hannah, actress (Blade Runner, Steel Magnolias). | |
| 1963 | Terri Schiavo, who became the focus of a 15-year legal struggle over the question of artificially prolonging the life of a patient, Schiavo, whom doctors had diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state. | |
| 1973 | Holly Marie Combs, actress, TV producer (Charmed; Pretty Little Liars TV series). | |
| 2005 | Prince Sverre Magnus, third in line of succession to the Norwegian throne. | |
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