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?
Mrs. Perkins wants everyone to get into the holiday spirit. Click the link below.
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
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.
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)
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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12.8
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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!!!!!!!; 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
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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
|
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
|
4th Grade Heritage Theater, New Winston Museum
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5.20
|
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 8
| 1660 | The first Shakespearian actress to appear on an English stage (she is believed to be a Ms. Norris) makes her debut as Desdemona. | |
| 1861 | CSS Sumter captures the whaler Eben Dodge in the Atlantic. The American Civil War is now affecting the Northern whaling industry. | |
| 1863 | Union General William Averell's cavalry destroys railroads in the southwestern part of West Virginia. | |
| 1914 | The German cruisers Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Nurnberg, and Liepzig are sunk by a British force in the Battle of the Falkland Islands. | |
| 1920 | President Woodrow Wilson declines to send a representative to the League of Nations in Geneva. | |
| 1932 | Japan tells the League of Nations that it has no control over her designs in China. | |
| 1941 | Japanese General Tomoyuki Yamashita begins his attack against the British army atSingapore. | |
| 1943 | U.S. carrier-based planes sink two cruisers and down 72 planes in the Marshall Islands. | |
| 1944 | The United States conducts the longest, most effective air raid on the Pacific island of Iwo Jima. | |
| 1948 | The United Nations approves the recognition of South Korea. | |
| 1967 | In the biggest battle yet in the Mekong Delta, 365 Viet Cong are killed. | |
| 1968 | South Vietnam's Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky arrives in Paris for peace talks. | |
| 1980 | John Lennon is shot to death outside his Manhattan apartment building. | |
| 1982 | The Washington, D.C., police shoot and kill a man threatening to blow up the Washington Monument. | |
| 1987 | The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty signed. | |
| 1987 | An Israeli army tank transporter kills 4 Palestinian refugees and injures 7 others during a traffic accident at the Erez Crossing on the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip, leading to the First Intifada. | |
| 1991 | The leaders of Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine sign an agreement that dissolves the Soviet Union and establishes the Commonwealth of Independent States. | |
| 2004 | The Cuzco Declaration signed in Cuzco, Peru, establishing the South American Community of Nations. | |
| 2010 | SpaceX becomes the first privately held company to successfully launch, orbit and recover a spacecraft. | |
| 2010 | The Japanese solar-sail spacecraft IKAROS passes the planet Venus. | |
| Born on December 8 | ||
| 65 BC | Quintus "Horance" Horatius Flaccus, Roman poet and satirist best known for his three books Odes. | |
| 1542 | Mary, Queen of Scotland (1542-67). | |
| 1626 | Christina, Queen of Sweden (1644-54). | |
| 1765 | Eli Whitney, inventor of the cotton gin. | |
| 1894 | James Thurber, American writer, cartoonist and editor (The Secret Life of Walter Mitty). | |
| 1906 | Richard Llewellyn, author (How Green Was My Valley). | |
| 1913 | Delmore Schwartz, poet and writer. | |
| 1916 | Richard Fleischer, film director, (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Soylent Green). | |
| 1922 | Jean Ritchie, singer, songwriter of folk music ("Blue Diamond Mines"). | |
| 1925 | Sammy Davis Jr., singer ("The Candy Man"), dancer, actor (Ocean's 11); member of the "Rat Pack". | |
| 1930 | Maximilian Schell, actor, writer, director, producer; won Academy Award for Best Actor for Judgement at Nuremberg (1961). | |
| 1933 | Flip Wilson (Clerow Wilson Jr.), comedian and actor; won a Golden Globe and two Emmy Awards for his 1970s TV variety series, The Flip Wilson Show. | |
| 1939 | Sir James Galway, virtuoso flute player known as "The Man With the Golden Flute." | |
| 1941 | Bobby Elliott, drummer, member of the band The Hollies. | |
| 1943 | Jim Morrison, singer, songwriter, poet; lead singer for The Doors and Rick & the Ravens. | |
| 1943 | Larry Martin, paleontologist; leading opponent of the "birds are living dinosaurs" theory. | |
| 1947 | Gregg Allman, singer, songwriter, musician; founding member of The Allman Brothers Band. | |
| 1953 | Kim Basinger, actress, singer, producer; won Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for L.A. Confidential (1997). | |
| 1964 | Teri Hatcher, actress; Lois Lane on Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman TV series; won Golden Globe for Best Actress as Susan Mayer on Desperate Housewives TV series. | |
| 1966 | Sinead O'Connor, Irish singer, songwriter; has frequently generated controversy with her views on social issues such as organized religion and women's rights. | |
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