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. 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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Announcements:
The blog calendar is incorrect. Today is Day 3. Tuesday is Day 4.
Tutoring Today.
Thanks to everyone who participated in the family fitness night. We raised over $200 for our 5th graders. Everyone had a great time. Special thanks to Canty, who organized the entire event.
Please get your quarterly award names to Karen Higgins so she can begin working on them.
If you have any questions about tutoring, they need to be directed to Mrs. S.R. She is the tutoring coordinator.
Thanks for everyone who already responded to the 'Love the Bus' effort.
The calendar will only be up to date for about 2 weeks in advance during the winter months due to the possibility of bad weather.
We have a Speas Symbaloo page.
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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2.3
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3
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D
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X
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Ash out AM; Access Testing window opens
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2.4
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4
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E
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X
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Quarterly Awards go home
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2.5
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5
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A
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X
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2.6
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6
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B
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Y
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3rd Grade Reading Quarter Test
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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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2.15
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Happy Birthday Cartwright!!!!!!!
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2.16
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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!!!!!!!!! Parade of Flags Human Relations Banquet
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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; International 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; Ready EOG window opens
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6.5
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Ready EOG window closes
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6.7
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Water Day
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On This Day in World History
February 2
| 962 | Otto I invades Italy and is crowned Holy Roman Emperor. | |
| 1032 | Conrad II claims the throne of France. | |
| 1494 | Columbus begins the practice using Indians as slaves. | |
| 1571 | All eight members of a Jesuit mission in Virginia are murdered by Indians who pretended to be their friends. | |
| 1626 | Charles I is crowned King of England. Fierce internal struggles between the monarchy and Parliament characterized 17th century English politics. | |
| 1848 | The Treaty of Guadeloupe Hidalgo formally ends the Mexican War. | |
| 1865 | Confederate raider William Quantrill and his bushwackers rob citizens, burn a railroad depot and steal horses from Midway, Kentucky. | |
| 1870 | The press agencies Havas, Reuter and Wolff sign an agreement whereby between them they can cover the whole world. | |
| 1876 | The National Baseball League is founded with eight teams. | |
| 1900 | Six cities, Boston, Detroit, Milwaukee, Baltimore, Chicago and St. Louis agree to form baseball's American League. | |
| 1901 | Mexican government troops are badly beaten by Yaqui Indians. | |
| 1916 | U.S. Senate votes independence for Philippines, effective in 1921. | |
| 1921 | Airmail service opens between New York and San Francisco. Airmail's First Day. | |
| 1934 | Alfred Rosenberg is made philosophical chief of the Nazi Party. | |
| 1939 | Hungary breaks relations with the Soviet Union. | |
| 1943 | Last of the German strongholds at Stalingrad surrender to the Red army. | |
| 1944 | The Germans stop an Allied attack at Anzio, Italy. | |
| 1945 | Some 1,200 Royal Air Force planes blast Wiesbaden and Karlsruhe. | |
| 1948 | The United States and Italy sign a pact of friendship, commerce and navigation. | |
| 1959 | Arlington and Norfolk, Va., peacefully desegregate public schools. | |
| 1960 | The U.S. Senate approves 23rd Amendment calling for a ban on the poll tax. | |
| 1972 | The Winter Olympics begin in Sapporo, Japan. | |
| 1978 | U.S. Jewish leaders bar a meeting with Egypt's Anwar Sadat. | |
| 1987 | Largest steel strike in American history, in progress since August, ends. | |
| Born on February 2 | ||
| 1754 | Charles Maurice de Tallyrand-Perigord, minister of foreign affairs for Napoleon I, who represented France brilliantly at the Congress of Vienna. | |
| 1882 | James Joyce, Irish novelist and poet (Ulysses, Portrait of a Young Man). | |
| 1890 | Charles Correl, radio performer. | |
| 1895 | George Halas, National Football League co-founder. | |
