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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To whomever is doing the snow dance:
You will be found. You will be dealt with!!!!!!
Announcements:
We are on a two hour delay. Students will come in at 9:25. They will not go to the gym, they will go straight to class. Breakfast will be eaten in the classrooms. No Specials today. Specialists will be in the cafeteria so teachers can have duty free lunch today. PLT's begin at 9:00 AM, 2nd grade.
Pinterest ideas for Black History Month.
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
2.25
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3
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E
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X
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Johnson out AM, AR Party is postponed
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2.26
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4
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A
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Y
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Evan meet w/grade levels; Happy Birthday Ryabova!!!!!!!!!
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2.27
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5
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B
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Y
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Johnson out, Dollar Dress Down Day
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3.2
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6
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C
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Y
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Book Fair Begins
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3.3
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1
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D
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Y
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Book Fair Night 5:00-6:30 PM
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3.4
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2
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E
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Y
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3.5
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3
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A
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Y
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3.6
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4
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B
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Y
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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
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Water Day
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This Day in World History
ebruary 25
| 1570 | Pope Pius V issues the bull Regnans in Excelsis which excommunicates Queen Elizabeth of England. | |
| 1601 | Robert Devereux, the second Earl of Essex and former favorite of Elizabeth I, is beheaded in the Tower of London for high treason. | |
| 1642 | Dutch settlers slaughter lower Hudson Valley Indians in New Netherland, North America, who sought refuge from Mohawk attackers. | |
| 1779 | The British surrender the Illinois country to George Rogers Clark at Vincennes. | |
| 1781 | American General Nathaniel Greene crosses the Dan River on his way to attack Cornwallis. | |
| 1791 | President George Washington sign a bill creating the Bank of the United States. | |
| 1804 | Thomas Jefferson is nominated for president at the Democratic-Republican caucus. | |
| 1815 | Napoleon leaves his exile on the island of Elba, returning to France. | |
| 1831 | The Polish army halts the Russian advance into their country at the Battle of Grochow. | |
| 1836 | Samuel Colt patents the first revolving cylinder multi-shot firearm. | |
| 1862 | Confederate troops abandon Nashville, Tennessee, in the face of Grant's advance. The ironclad Monitor is commissioned at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. | |
| 1865 | General Joseph E. Johnston replaces John Bell Hood as Commander of the Confederate Army of Tennessee. | |
| 1904 | J.M. Synge's play Riders to the Sea opens in Dublin. | |
| 1910 | The Dalai Lama flees from the Chinese and takes refuge in India. | |
| 1919 | Oregon introduces the first state tax on gasoline at one cent per gallon, to be used for road construction. | |
| 1913 | The 16th Amendment to the constitution is adopted, setting the legal basis for the income tax. | |
| 1926 | Poland demands a permanent seat on the League of Nations council. | |
| 1928 | Bell Labs introduces a new device to end the fluttering of the television image. | |
| 1943 | U.S. troops retake the Kasserine Pass in Tunisia, where they had been defeated five days before. | |
| 1944 | U.S. forces destroy 135 Japanese planes in Marianas and Guam. | |
| 1952 | French colonial forces evacuate Hoa Binh in Indochina. | |
| 1956 | Stalin is secretly disavowed by Khrushchev at a party congress for promoting the "cult of the individual." | |
| 1976 | The U.S. Supreme Court rules that states may ban the hiring of illegal aliens. | |
| Born on February 25 | ||
| 1841 | Pierre Auguste Renoir, French painter and founder of the French Impressionist movement. | |
| 1856 | Charles Lang Freer, U.S. art collector. | |
| 1873 | Enrico Caruso, Italian opera tenor. | |
| 1888 | John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State to President Eisenhower. | |
| 1894 | Meher Baba, spiritual leader. | |
| 1895 | Rudolf von Eschwege, German fighter ace in World War I. . | |
| 1905 | Adele Davis, nutritionist. | |
| 1917 | Anthony Burgess, English writer (A Clockwork Orange). | |
