April 10, 2015

It's Friday Everyone!!!!!  Feliz Viernes!!!!!!!   Go ahead and dance like you do at home!  Then....get back to work, slackers.

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:

Report Cards due to administrators
1st Grade Trip
Campus Clean up Saturday!

Just A Minute

I have only just a minute, 


 60 seconds in it.


Forced upon me, can't refuse it.


Didn't seek it, didn't choose it.


But it's up to me to use it.


I must suffer if I lose it,


Give account if I abuse it,


Just a tiny little minute,


But eternity is in it.


What are you going to do with your minute?


By Benjamin E. Mays

***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

4.10	2	A	X		1st Grade Dan Nicholas Park 8:30-2:00; Happy Birthday Woodson!!!!: Report Cards Due
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					5th Grade A & T
4.20
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
5.4					TRC Window Opens
5.5					Ash out AM
5.8					GSN Module 4 due; PEP checks begin
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; TRC window closes
6.5					Ready EOG window closes
6.7					Water Day
6.12					Last day for students
6.22					Last day for teachers

What Holiday is Today?

Friday	Apr 10	Good Friday (Orthodox)	Albania, Australia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, Cyprus, Egypt, Ethiopia, Georgia,Greece, Moldova, Montenegro, Macedonia, Republic of, Serbia, United Kingdom, United States
Friday	Apr 10	Pesach VII (Last day of Passover)	Israel

Today in World History

1790		The U.S. patent system is established.
1809		Austria declares war on France and her forces enter Bavaria.
1862		Union forces begin the bombardment of Fort Pulaski in Georgia along the Tybee River.
1865		At Appomattox Court, Va, General Robert E. Lee issues his last orders to the Army of Northern Virginia.
1866		The American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) is formed.
1902		South African Boers accept British terms of surrender.
1912		The Titanic begins her maiden voyage which will end in disaster.
1925		F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes The Great Gatsby.
1930		The first synthetic rubber is produced.
1932		Paul von Hindenburg is elected president in Germany.
1938		Germany annexes Austria.
1941		U.S. troops occupy Greenland to prevent Nazi infiltration.
1945		In their second attempt to take the Seelow Heights, near Berlin, the Red Army launches numerous attacks against the defending Germans. The Soviets gain one mile at the cost of 3,000 men killed and 368 tanks destroyed.
1945		Allied troops liberate the Nazi concentration camp of Buchenwald north of Weiner, Germany.
1947		Jackie Robinson becomes the first black to play major league baseball as he takes the field for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
1953		House of Wax, the first 3-D movie, is released.
1971		The American table tennis team arrives in China.
1974		Yitzhak Rabin replaces resigning Israeli Prime Minister, Golda Meir.
1981		Imprisoned Irish Republican Army hunger striker Bobby Sands is elected to the British Parliament.
Born on April 10
1583		Hugo Grotius, Dutch statesman and scholar.
1794		Matthew C. Perry, American naval officer, opened Japan to trade with the west.
1827		Lew Wallace, Civil War general, lawyer, diplomat and author of Ben Hur.
1867		A.E. (George William Russell), Irish poet and mystic.
1880		Frances Perkins, U.S. labor secretary, first female cabinet member.
1903		Clare Boothe Luce, reporter, U.S. ambassador to the Vatican.
1917		Robert B. Woodward, synthetic chemist.
1934		David Halberstam, New York Times correspondent, author, Pulitzer Prize winner in 1964.
1932		Omar Sharif (Michael Shalhoub), actor (Dr. Zhivago).
1941		Paul Theroux, author (The Great Railway Bazaar).