March 27, 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%

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

Teachers: Having Trouble with Defiant Students?  Have you tried these strategies?

http://www.interventioncentral.org/behavioral-interventions/challenging-students/school-wide-strategies-managing-defiance-non-complianc

Announcements:

Congrats to Miller's Class for Winning the Achieve 3000 Read to Succeed Contest!!!!!!!!!!!

Hill and Woodson have decided to moonlight as MC's (that would be rappers or wrappers).  Scroll all of the way down to witness their talent. 

Congrats(?) to Mr. Clarke (Express stop), and Barnes.  They are both getting married this weekend!!!!!!!  

Oh----Have a great break!!!!!! 

***For all technology issues, please follow these steps in order to submit a SchoolDude ticket. Mr. McMasters will receive this ticket and be able to work on resolving the issue as quickly as possible. Tickets take priority so please enter a ticket for the technology issue that you have. If you have any questions on how to do this, please see Mr. McMasters. Thank you!

To submit a ticket…on either the WSFCS homepage or the Speas homepage, click on “User Options” in the top right of the screen --> “SCHOOL DUDE requests --> Click “IT request” tab --> fill out request and click submit. ***

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

3.27	3	B	X		Quarter Testing Ends Happy Birthday Ferguson!!!!!!!
3.29					Happy Birthday Mitchell!!!!!!!! Happy Birthday Arora!!!!!!!!!
4.6					Happy Birthday Perkins!!!!!!!!
4.7					Ash out AM
4.8					Evan mtg w/grade levels; Happy Birthday Smutek
4.9					Quarterly Awards
4.10					1st Grade Dan Nicholas Park 8:30-2:00; Happy Birthday Woodson!!!!
4.11					Campus Clean Up
4.13					Canty out-training; Houston Texas visiting
4.14					Report Cards go home
4.15					Early Release Day
4.16					Happy Birthday Hooker; Ash out AM; International Night
4.17					Kids Night In Movie Night
4.20					5th Grade A & T
4.21					IC mtg.  Instr. strategies
4.22					Johnson out- AM
4.23					Johnson out; 2nd grade to butterfly farm
4.24					School-Wide Assembly Diggerdoo Down Under
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

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Friday

Mar 27

Nowruz/Spring Holiday (extra holiday)

Azerbaijan

Today in World History

March 27

1350		While besieging Gibraltar, Alfonso XI of Castile dies of the black death.
1512		Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon sights Florida.
1802		The Treaty of Amiens is signed, ending the French Revolutionary War.
1814		U.S. troops under Gen. Andrew Jackson inflict a crushing defeat on the Creek Indians at Horshoe Bend in Northern Alabama.
1836		The Mexican army massacres Texan rebels at Goliad.
1866		President Andrew Johnson vetoes the civil rights bill, which later becomes the 14th amendment.
1884		The first long-distance telephone call is made from Boston to New York.
1893		The American Bell Telephone Company makes the first long distance telephone call to its branch office in New York.
1899		The Italian inventor G. Marconi achieves the first international radio transmission between England and France.
1900		The London Parliament passes the War Loan Act, which gives 35 million pounds to the Boer War cause.
1912		The first cherry blossom trees, a gift from Japan, are planted in Washington, D.C.
1933		Some 55,000 people stage a protest against Hitler in New York.
1941		Tokeo Yoshikawa arrives in Oahu, Hawaii, to begin spying for Japan on the U.S. fleet at Pearl Harbor.
1942		The British raid the Nazi submarine base at St. Nazaire, France.
1944		One thousand Jews leave Drancy, France for the Auschwitz concentration camp.
1944		Thousands of Jews are murdered in Kaunas, Lithuania. The Gestapo shoots forty Jewish policemen in the Riga, Latvia ghetto.
1945		General Dwight Eisenhower declares that the German defenses on the Western Front have been broken.
1952		Elements of the U.S. Eighth Army reach the 38th parallel in Korea, the original dividing line between the two Koreas.
1958		The United States announces a plan to explore space near the moon.
1976		Washington, D.C. opens its subway system.
1977		In aviation's worst disaster yet, 582 die when a KLM Pan Am 747 crashes.
Born on March 27
1785		Louis XVII, pretender to the throne during the French Revolution.
1809		Georges-Eugene Haussmann, French town planner, designed modern-day Paris.
1813		Nathaniel Currier, lithographer for Currier and Ives.
1845		Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, German physicist, accidentally discovered X-rays.
1863		Sir Henry Royce, cofounder the Rolls-Royce automotive company.
1879		Edward Steichen, pioneer of American photography.
1906		Pee Wee Russell, jazz clarinetist.
1910		John Robinson Pierce, the father of comunications satellites.
1914		Budd Schulberg, journalist, novelist and screenwriter (What Makes Sammy Run).
1923		Louis Simpson, Pultizer Prize-winning poet.
1924		Sarah Vaughan, jazz singer.