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.
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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:
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
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3.2
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Book Fair Week Begins
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3.3
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Book Character Night Media Center 5:00-6:30
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3.4
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Kinder. Field Trip
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3.5
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3.6
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3.7
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Happy Birthday Faragher!!!!!!
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3.8
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3.9
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3.10
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3.11
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3.12
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Ash out AM; Chik-fil-A Spirit Night
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3.13
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3.14
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3.16
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3.17
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Canty Out-Meeting
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3.18
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3.19
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Evan w/ Teachers; Happy Birthday
Pfitzner!!!!!!!; Yoforia
Spirit Night
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3.20
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3.23
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Quarter Testing Begins Happy Birthday
Smith!!!!!!!
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3.24
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3.25
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Johnson out AM
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3.26
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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
March 2
| 1776 | Americans begin shelling British troops in Boston. | |
| 1781 | Maryland ratifies the Articles of Confederation. She is the last state to sign. | |
| 1797 | The Directory of Great Britain authorizes vessels of war to board and seize neutral vessels, particularly if the ships are American. | |
| 1815 | To put an end to robberies by the Barbary pirates, the United States declares war on Algiers. | |
| 1836 | Texas declares independence from Mexico on Sam Houston's 43rd birthday. | |
| 1853 | The Territory of Washington is organized. | |
| 1865 | President Abraham Lincoln rejects Confederate General Robert E. Lee's plea for peace talks, demanding unconditional surrender. | |
| 1867 | The first Reconstruction Act is passed by Congress. | |
| 1877 | Rutherford B. Hayes is declared president by one vote the day before the inauguration. | |
| 1889 | Congress passes the Indian Appropriations Bill, proclaiming unassigned lands in the public domain; the first step toward the famous Oklahoma Land Rush. | |
| 1896 | Bone Mizell, the famed cowboy of Florida, is sentenced to two years of hard labor in the state pen for cattle rustling. He would only serve a small portion of the sentence. | |
| 1901 | Congress passes the Platt amendment, which limits Cuban autonomy as a condition for withdrawal of U.S. troops. | |
| 1908 | An international conference on arms reduction opens in London. | |
| 1908 | Gabriel Lippman introduces the new three-dimensional color photography at the Academy of Sciences. | |
| 1917 | Congress passes the Jones Act making Puerto Rico a territory of the United States and makes the inhabitants U.S. citizens. | |
| 1923 | In Italy, Mussolini admits that women have a right to vote, but declares that the time is not right. | |
| 1930 | Novelist D.H. Lawrence dies of tuberculosis in a sanitarium in Vence, France, at the age of 45. | |
| 1943 | The center of Berlin is bombed by the RAF. Some 900 tons of bombs are dropped in a half hour. | |
| 1945 | MacArthur raises the U.S. flag on Corregidor in the Philippines. | |
| 1946 | Ho Chi Minh is elected president of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. | |
| 1951 | The U.S. Navy launches the K-1, the first modern submarine designed to hunt enemy submarines. | |
| 1955 | Claudette Colvin refuses to give up her seat in Montgomery, Alabama, nine months before Rosa Parks' famous arrest for the same offense. | |
| 1956 | France grants independence to Morocco. | |
| 1965 | More than 150 U.S. and South Vietnamese planes bomb two bases in North Vietnam in the first of the "Rolling Thunder" raids. | |
| 1968 | The siege of Khe Sanh ends in Vietnam, the U.S. Marines stationed there are still in control of the mountain top. | |
| 1973 | Federal forces surround Wounded Knee, South Dakota, which is occupied by members of the militant American Indian Movement who are holding at least 10 hostages. | |
| 1974 | A grand jury in Washington, D.C. concludes that President Nixon was indeed involved in the Watergate cover-up. | |
| 1978 | Czech pilot Vladimir Remek becomes the first non-Russian, non-American in space. | |
| 1981 | The United States plans to send 20 more advisors and $25 million in military aid to El Salvador. | |
| Born on March 2 | ||
| 1793 | Sam Houston, president of Texas, later Texas senator and governor. | |
| 1810 | Leo XIII, 256th Roman Catholic Pope. | |
| 1829 | Carl Schurz, Civil War general, political reformer and anti-imperialist. | |
| 1900 | Kurt Weill, German-born composer (The Threepenny Opera). | |
| 1904 | Henry Dreyfuss, industrial designer of everything from telephones to the interior of the Boeing 707. | |
| 1904 | Theodor Seuss Geisel [Dr. Seuss], author of numerous children's books including The Cat in the Hat and Green Eggs and Ham. | |
| 1923 | Doc Watson, singer and guitarist. | |
| 1931 | Mikhail Gorbachev, Secretary General of the Soviet Union. Responsible for restructuring the Soviet economy (perestroika) and openness and information (glasnost). | |
| 1942 | John Irving, novelist (The World According to Garp). | |
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