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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12.5
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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
|
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 4
| 771 | With the death of his brother Carloman, Charlemagne becomes sole ruler of the Frankish Empire. | |
| 1861 | The U.S. Senate, voting 36 to 0, expels Senator John C. Brekinridge of Kentucky because of his joining the Confederate Army. | |
| 1861 | Queen Victoria of Britain forbids the export of gunpowder, firearms and all materials for their production. | |
| 1862 | Winchester, Va., falls into Union hands, resulting in the capture of 145 Southern soldiers. | |
| 1863 | Seven solid days of bombardment ends at Charleston, S.C. The Union fires some 1,307 rounds. | |
| 1872 | The U.S. brigantine Marie Celeste is found adrift and deserted with its cargo intact, in the Atlantic Ocean between the Azores and Portugal. | |
| 1900 | The French National Assembly, successor to the States-General, rejects Nationalist General Mercier's proposal to plan an invasion of England. | |
| 1914 | The first Seaplane Unit formed by the German Navy officially comes into existence and begins operations from Zeebrugge, Belgium. | |
| 1918 | France cancels trade treaties in order to compete in the postwar economic battles. | |
| 1941 | Operation Taifun (Typhoon), which was launched by the German armies on October 2, 1941, as a prelude to taking Moscow, is halted because of freezing temperatures and lack of serviceable aircraft. | |
| 1942 | U.S. planes make the first raids on Naples, Italy. | |
| 1947 | Tennessee William's play A Streetcar Named Desire premieres on Broadway starring Marlon Brando and Jessica Tandy. | |
| 1950 | The University of Tennessee defies court rulings by rejecting five Negro applicants. | |
| 1952 | The Grumman XS2F-1 makes its first flight. | |
| 1959 | Peking pardons Pu Yi, ex-emperor of China and of the Japanese puppet-state of Manchukuo. | |
| 1981 | President Ronald Reagan broadens the power of the CIA by allowing spying in the United States. | |
| 1985 | Robert McFarland resigns as National Security Advisor. Admiral John Poindexter is named to succeed. | |
| 1991 | The last American hostages held in Lebanon are released. | |
| 1992 | US Pres. George H. W. Bush orders 28,000 troops to Somalia during the Somali Civil War. | |
| Born on December 4 | ||
| 1584 | John Cotton, English-born Puritan clergyman (The Way of the Church of Christ in New England). | |
| 1795 | Thomas Carlyle, Scottish historian and essayist (The French Revolution, Sartor Resartus). | |
| 1835 | Samuel Butler, English writer and painter (Erewhon, The Way of All Flesh). | |
| 1861 | Lillian Russell, singer and actress. | |
| 1865 | Edith Cavell, English nurse who tended to friend and foe alike during World War I. | |
| 1866 | Wassily Kandinsky, Russian-born painter. | |
| 1875 | Rainer Maria Rilke, German poet. | |
| 1892 | Francisco Franco, Spanish general and dictator who came to power as a result of the Spanish Civil War. | |
| 1924 | Frank Press, geophysicist. | |
| 1937 | Max Baer Jr., actor, screenwriter, director, producer; best know for his role as Jethro onThe Beverly Hillbillies TV series | |
| 1940 | Gary Gilmore, American murderer who demanded his death sentence be carried out; he was the first prisoner executed in the US following the Supreme Court's ruling on the death penalty in Gregg v. Georgia. | |
| 1944 | Chris Hillman, singer, songwrier, musician; performed with the bands The Byrds, The Hillmen, The Flying Burrito Brothers, and Manassas. | |
| 1945 | A. Scott Berg, Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer (Lindberg, 1998). | |
| 1949 | Jeff Bridges, actor, producer; won Academy Award for Best Actor as Otis "Bad" Blake inCrazy Heart (2009). | |
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