January 8, 2015

Welcome to the Speas Global Elementary Blog!

All staff members, let's make sure we are teaching, reteaching, and teaching again the procedures in the common areas (Hallway, Cafeteria, Bathrooms, Playground, Bus).  We should be giving out lots of Bee's for students demonstrating the basic expectations.  It is a good idea to review the procedures before you leave one area to travel to another area.  

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	Teacher	Location
A	Arora	Room 213
B	Bowen	Music
C	King	Art
D	Childers/McMasters	Media/CL
E	Lindquist	Gym

We know you guys are working hard.  Thank you.

Announcements:

No recess today.  Try some of these activities:

http://www.pinterest.com/jessanneschmidt/rainy-day-recess/

Quarter Test Training this week.

Check out Speas in the news:

http://holanoticias.com/news/2014/dec/25/la-inmersion-dual-una-realidad/

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.  

All staff members, let's make sure we are teaching, reteaching, and teaching again the procedures in the common areas (Hallway, Cafeteria, Bathrooms, Playground, Bus).  We should be giving out lots of Bee's for students demonstrating the basic expectations.  It is a good idea to review the procedures before you leave one area to travel to another area.  

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	PLT	Encore	T/M	Gym	Events/Reminders
1.8	1	E	Y		Subway Night
1.9	2	A	X		5th Grade Science EOQ, Happy Birthday Canty!
1.12	3	B	X		Math Quarter Test 3-5
1.13	4	C	X		CWT Review, Reading Quarter Test
1.14	5	D	X
1.15	6	E	X		Happy Birthday Summey!!!!!!!!; Ash out meeting
1.16	1	A	Y		Quarter Test window closes
1.17					Happy Birthday Bumbrey!!!!!!!
1.20					Happy Birthday Linville!!!!!!!!!
1.21	2	B	Y
1.22	3	C	Y		Johnson out AM
1.23	4	D	Y		Happy Birthday Brown!!!!!!!!
1.24					Happy Birthday Bushey!!!!!!!!!
1.26	5	E	Y
1.27	6	A	X		Report Cards go home
1.28	1	B	X
1.29	2	C	X		Johnson out Quarterly Awards go home
1.30	3	D	X		TRC Dibels benchmark closes, Fitness Fundraiser Zumba
2.3					Ash out AM; Access Testing window opens
2.4
2.5
2.6
2.9					Happy Birthday Billingsley!!!!!!!
2.10					IC meeting learning walks
2.11					Early Release
2.12					Ash out AM; Canty Out-Meeting
2.13					Yoforia Movie Night
2.15					Happy Birthday Cartwright!!!!!!!
2.16					No School(workday)
2.17
2.18
2.19
2.20
2.22					Happy Birthday Cokely!!!!!!!!!!
2.23					Ash out AM
2.24
2.25					Johnson out AM
2.26					Evan meet w/grade levels; Happy Birthday Ryabova!!!!!!!!!
2.27
3.1
3.7					Happy Birthday Faragher!!!!!!
3.12					Ash out AM; Chik-fil-A Spirit Night
3.14					Access Testing window closes
3.17					Canty Out-Meeting
3.19					Evan w/ Teachers; Happy Birthday Pfitzner!!!!!!!; Yoforia Spirit Night
3.23					Quarter Testing Begins Happy Birthday Smith!!!!!!!
3.25					Johnson out AM
3.27					Johnson out; Quarter Testing Ends Happy Birthday Ferguson!!!!!!!
3.29					Happy Birthday Mitchell!!!!!!!!
4.7					Ash out AM
4.8					Evan mtg w/grade levels
4.9					Quarterly Awards
4.10					1st Grade Dan Nicholas Park 8:30-2:00
4.13					Canty out-training
4.14					Report Cards go home
4.16					Happy Birthday Hooker; Ash out AM; Yoforia Spirit Night
4.17					Kids Night In Movie Night
4.21					IC mtg.  Instr. strategies
4.22					Johnson out- AM
4.23					Johnson out
4.26
5.1					Canty out meeting
5.5					Ash out AM
5.14					Ash out AM; Papa Murphy’s Spirit Night
5.7					4th Grade Heritage Theater, New Winston Museum
5.20					Johnson out AM
5.22					1st Grade NC  Zoo 8:00-2:00 PM; Yoforia Movie Night; Ready EOG window opens
6.5					Ready EOG window closes
6.7					Water Day

On This Day in World History

Today in History

January 8

1681		The Treaty of Radzin ends a five year war between the Turks and the allied countries of Russia and Poland.
1745		England, Austria, Saxony and the Netherlands form an alliance against Russia.
1815		A rag-tag army under Andrew Jackson defeats the British on the fields of Chalmette in theBattle of New Orleans.
1871		Prussian troops begin to bombard Paris during the Franco-Prussian War.
1892		A coal mine explosion kills 100 in McAlister, Oklahoma.
1900		The Boers attack the British in Ladysmith, South Africa, but are turned back.
1908		A subway line opens linking the New York boroughs of Brooklyn and Manhattan.
1940		Great Britain begins rationing sugar, meat and butter.
1946		President Harry S. Truman vows to stand by the Yalta accord on self-determination for the Balkans.
1954		President Dwight Eisenhower proposes stripping convicted Communists of their U.S. citizenship.
1963		President John F. Kennedy attends the unveiling of the Mona Lisa.
1975		Ella T. Grasso becomes Governor of Connecticut, the first female governor in the US who did not come into office by succeeding her husband.
1979		The United States advises the Shah to leave Iran.
1982		AT&T agrees to divest 22 subdivisions as part of an antitrust agreement.
1994		Valeri Polyakov, a Russian cosmonaut leaves earth, bound for the Mir space station; he will spend a record 437 days in space.
2002		US President George W. Bush signs into law the No Child Left Behind Act, intended to improve America's educational system.
2004		The largest passenger ship in history, the RMS Queen Mary 2, is christened by Queen Elizabeth II, granddaughter of Queen Mary.
2011		An attempted assassination of Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords is part of a shooting spree in which Jared Lee Loughner kills 6 and wounds 13.
Born on January 8
1587		Johannes Fabricus, astronomer who discovered sunspots.
1786		Nicholas Biddle, head of the first United States bank.
1862		Frank Nelson Doubleday, founder of Doubleday publishing house.
1935		Elvis Presley, rock 'n roll singer, actor in over thirty films.
1938		Bob Eubanks, popular US TV game show host (The Newlywed Game).
1941		Graham Chapman, comedian, actor, member of Monty Python group.
1947		David Bowie, singer, songwriter, producer, actor ("Starman").
2011		Princess Josephine of Denmark, Countess of Monpezat (Josephine Sophia Ivalo Mathilda), and Prince Vincent of Denmark, Count of Monpezat (Vincent Frederik Minik Alexander).