Welcome to the Speas Global Elementary Blog!
Happy Friday Everyone! These short weeks are always long.
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:
Speas is likely to get IB PYP. Journal article here:
Our 5th Grade will have a special guest speaker today. Dr. Kevin Cokley of U. Texas will be here to talk about the importance of an education. Thanks to Mr. Cokley for making this happen for our 5th graders.
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.
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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1.23
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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 23
| 1901 | A great fire ravages Montreal, resulting in $2.5 million in property lost. | |
| 1913 | The "Young Turks" revolt because they are angered by the concessions made at the London peace talks. | |
| 1932 | Franklin D. Roosevelt enters the presidential race. | |
| 1948 | The Soviets refuse UN entry into North Korea to administer elections. | |
| 1949 | The Communist Chinese forces begin their advance on Nanking. | |
| 1950 | Jerusalem becomes the official capital of Israel. | |
| 1951 | President Truman creates the Commission on Internal Security and Individual Rights, to monitor the anti-Communist campaign. | |
| 1969 | NASA unveils moon-landing craft. | |
| 1973 | President Richard Nixon claims that Vietnam peace has been reached in Paris and that thePOWs would be home in 60 days. | |
| 1977 | Alex Haley's Roots begins a record-breaking eight-night broadcast on ABC. | |
| 1981 | Under international pressure, opposition leader Kim Dae Jung's death sentence is commuted to life imprisonment in Seoul. | |
| 1986 | U.S. begins maneuvers off the Libyan coast. | |
| Born on January 23 | ||
| 1832 | Édouard Manet, French impressionist painter best known for Luncheon in the Grass. | |
| 1899 | Humphrey Bogart, U.S. film actor (The African Queen, Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon). | |
| 1919 | Ernie Kovacs, U.S. comedian and television personality. | |
| 1957 | Princess Caroline of Monaco. | |
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