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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http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/544/batman#play
Announcements:
Speas is likely to get IB PYP. Journal article here:
Hill needs your recommendations for Girls on the Run. We are excited to have that program returning this year.
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.
Today is the 1st day of the 3rd Quarter. Let's get ready to finish strong!
Here are a few practical tips and reminders from Rita Pierson.
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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1.21
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1
| A | Y |
Johnson out AM; Tutoring PM
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1.22
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2
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B
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Y
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Happy Birthday Brown!!!!!!!!
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1.23
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3
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C
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Y
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Happy Birthday Bushey!!!!!!!!!, Report Cards Due Today
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1.26
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4
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D
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Y
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1.27
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5
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E
| Y |
Report Cards go home
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1.28
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6
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A
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X
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1.29
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1
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B
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X
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Johnson out Quarterly Awards go home
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1.30
| 2 |
C
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X
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TRC Dibels benchmark closes, Fitness Fundraiser Zumba
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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;
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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
January 21
| 1189 | Philip Augustus, Henry II of England and Frederick Barbarossa assemble the troops for the Third Crusade. | |
| 1648 | In Maryland, the first woman lawyer in the colonies, Margaret Brent, is denied a vote in the Maryland Assembly. | |
| 1785 | Chippewa, Delaware, Ottawa and Wyandot Indians sign the treaty of Fort McIntosh, ceding present-day Ohio to the United States. | |
| 1790 | Joseph Guillotine proposes a new, more humane method of execution: a machine designed to cut off the condemned person's head as painlessly as possible. | |
| 1793 | The French King Louis XVI is guillotined for treason. | |
| 1910 | Japan rejects the American proposal to neutralize ownership of the Manchurian Railway. | |
| 1919 | The German Krupp plant begins producing guns under the U.S. armistice terms. | |
| 1921 | J.D. Rockefeller pledges $1 million for the relief of Europe's destitute. | |
| 1930 | An international arms control meeting opens in London. | |
| 1933 | The League of Nations rejects Japanese terms for settlement with China. | |
| 1941 | The United States lifts the ban on arms to the Soviet Union. | |
| 1942 | In North Africa, German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel launches a drive to push the British eastward. While the British benefited from radio-intercept-derived Ultra information, the Germans enjoyed an even speedier intelligence source. | |
| 1943 | A Nazi daylight air raid kills 34 in a London school. When the anticipated invasion of Britain failed to materialize in 1940, Londoners relaxed, but soon they faced a frightening new threat. | |
| 1951 | Communist troops force the UN army out of Inchon, Korea after a 12-hour attack. | |
| 1958 | The Soviet Union calls for a ban on nuclear arms in Baghdad Pact countries. | |
| 1964 | Carl T. Rowan is named the director of the United States Information Agency (USIA). | |
| 1968 | In Vietnam, the Siege of Khe Sanh begins as North Vietnamese units surround U.S. Marines based on the hilltop headquarters. | |
| 1974 | The U.S. Supreme Court decides that pregnant teachers can no longer be forced to take long leaves of absence. | |
| 1976 | Leonid Brezhnev and Henry Kissinger meet to discuss Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT). | |
| 1977 | President Carter urges 65 degrees as the maximum heat in homes to ease the energy crisis. | |
| 1993 | Congressman Mike Espy of Mississippi is confirmed as Secretary of the Department of Agriculture. | |
| Born on January 21 | ||
| 1737 | Ethan Allen, American Revolutionary commander. | |
| 1824 | Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, Confederate General. | |
| 1925 | Benny Hill, British comedian. | |
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