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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12.9
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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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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; Johnson 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
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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 9
| 536 | Having captured Naples earlier in the year, Belisarius takes Rome. | |
| 1861 | The U.S. Senate approves establishment of a committee that would become the Joint Committee on the Conduct of War. | |
| 1863 | Major General John G. Foster replaces Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside as Commander of the Department of Ohio. | |
| 1867 | The capital of Colorado Territory is moved from Golden to Denver. | |
| 1872 | P.B.S. Pinchback becomes the first African-American governor of Louisiana. | |
| 1900 | The Russian czar rejects Boer Paul Kruger's pleas for aid in South Africa against the British. | |
| 1908 | A child labor bill passes in the German Reichstag, forbidding work for children under age 13. | |
| 1917 | The new Finnish Republic demands the withdrawal of Russian troops. | |
| 1940 | The British army seizes 1,000 Italians in a sudden thrust in Egypt. | |
| 1941 | Franklin D. Roosevelt tells Americans to plan for a long war. | |
| 1948 | The United States abandons a plan to de-concentrate industry in Japan. | |
| 1949 | The United Nations takes trusteeship over Jerusalem. | |
| 1950 | President Harry Truman bans U.S. exports to Communist China. | |
| 1950 | Harry Gold gets 30 years imprisonment for passing atomic bomb secrets to the Soviet Union during World War II. | |
| 1955 | Sugar Ray Robinson knocks out Carl Olson to regain the world middleweight boxing title. | |
| 1960 | The Laos government flees to Cambodia as the capital city of Vientiane is engulfed in war. | |
| 1990 | Lech Walesa is elected president of Poland. | |
| 1992 | U.S. Marines land in Somalia to ensure food and medicine reaches the deprived areas of that country. | |
| 2008 | Governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich is arrested on federal charges, including an attempt to sell the US Senate seat being vacated by President-elect Barack Obama. | |
| Born on December 9 | ||
| 1608 | John Milton, British writer and poet (Paradise Lost). | |
| 1809 | William Barret Travis, commander of the Texas troops at the battle of the Alamo. | |
| 1848 | Joel Chandler Harris, writer, creator of the Uncle Remus tales. | |
| 1899 | Jean de Brunhoff, illustrator and author, creator of the Babar series of books. | |
| 1906 | Grace Hopper, mathematician and computer pioneer. | |
| 1912 | Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill, speaker of the House of Representatives. | |
| 1918 | Kirk Douglas, American actor (Spartacus). | |
| 1919 | William Lipscomb, chemist; awarded Nobel Prize in 1976. | |
| 1922 | Redd Foxx (John Sanford), comedian, actor; best known for his starring role in the TV series Sanford and Son. | |
| 1926 | Henry Kendall, particle physicist; shared Nobel Prize in 1990. | |
| 1928 | Dick Van Patten, actor; best known for his role on the TV series Eight is Enough. | |
| 1929 | John Cassavetes, actor (The Dirty Dozen), film director, screenwriter (Faces). | |
| 1932 | Billy Edd Wheeler, singer, songwriter ("Jackson," "Coward of the County"). | |
| 1934 | Judi Dench (Dame Judith Dench), actress; known to James Bond fans for her role as M in Bond films beginning with Golden Eye (1997), her many awards include an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress (Chocolat, 2000). | |
| 1942 | Dick Butkus, pro football player; inducted into Pro Football Hall of Fame, 1979. | |
| 1953 | John Malkovich, actor (Places in the Heart), producer (Juno), director, fashion designer. | |
| 1963 | Masako, Crown Princes of Japan, wife of Crown Prince Naruhito, heir apparent to the Chrysanthemum Throne. | |
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