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%
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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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
Instead of loosing the momentum by verbally addressing misbehavior, or off task behavior; try using these nifty stop signs. You can print them here:
Noise level in classroom too high? Try this website. The balls bounce according to the noise level. They are still when the room is completely quiet.
Exit Tickets: not just for workshops anymore. Try them in your classroom.
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Our jobs may get hectic as we try to close out the year strong. Here are some things to remember about what we may call disrespect or defiant behavior:
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THE THREE RELATIONAL FORCES THAT DRIVE THEIR SCHOOL BEHAVIORS
ÒThe drive for reliable relationships. Students want the safety of a primary safe and reliable relationship. Students would prefer parents, psotive friends, and teachers, but they’d take an “iffy” friend if no one else were available. The relationships that teachers build with students form the single strongest access to student goals, socialization, motivation, and academic performance. To foster high achievement, every student will need a reliable partner or mentor.
Ò The strengthening of peer socialization. Socialization is the drive for acceptance that encourages students to imitate their peers and join groups, from clubs to cliques to gangs. Students want to belong somewhere, Evidence suggests that it is peers, not parents, who have the greatest influence on school-age students. Academic success must be culturally acceptable among students.
The quest for importance and social status. This is the quest to feel special. Students compete for attention and social elevation by choosing roles that will distinguish them (e.g., athlete, comedian, storyteller, gang leader, scholar, or style maverick). Kids are very interested in what other kids do, whether others like them, and how they rate on the social scale. Every student will need to feel like the “status hunt” can just as well lead to better grades as better behaviors
Announcements:
Smile everyone! It's Monday, and you have a job. :-)
***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.
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
Holidays Around the World
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4.27
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6
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A
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Y
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4.28
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1
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B
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Y
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4.29
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2
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C
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Y
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4.30
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3
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D
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Y
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3rd grade to Sci Works
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5.1
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4
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E
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Y
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Canty out meeting
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5.4
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5
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A
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Y
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TRC Window Opens
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5.5
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6
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B
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X
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Ash out AM
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5.6
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1
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C
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X
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5.7
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2
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D
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X
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5.8
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3
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E
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X
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GSN Module 4 due; PEP checks begin
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5.11
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4
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A
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X
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Wii Day
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5.12
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5
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B
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X
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5.13
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6
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C
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Y
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5.14
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1
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D
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Y
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Ash out AM; Papa Murphy’s Spirit
Night
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5.15
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2
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E
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Y
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Dollar Dress Down
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5.18
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3
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A
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Y
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5.19
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4
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B
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Y
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5.20
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5
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C
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Y
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Johnson out AM
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5.21
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6
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D
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X
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5.22
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1
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E
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X
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1st Grade
NC Zoo 8:00-2:00 PM; Yoforia Movie Night; Ready EOG window opens; TRC
window closes
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5.25
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2
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A
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X
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5.26
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3
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B
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X
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5.27
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EOG ELA
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5.28
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EOG Math
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5.29
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EOG Makeups
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6.1
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EOG Sci 5
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6.2
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EOG Sci 5
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6.3
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EOG Makeups
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6.4
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RTA/EOG Makeups
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6.5
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6.8
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6.9
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6.10
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6.11
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6.12
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Holidays Around the World
| Monday | Apr 27 | Workers' Memorial Day | Gibraltar |
| Monday | Apr 27 | State Flag Day | Moldova |
| Monday | Apr 27 | King's Birthday | Netherlands |
| Monday | Apr 27 | ANZAC Day observed | New Zealand |
| Monday | Apr 27 | Day of Uprising Against Occupation | Slovenia |
| Monday | Apr 27 | Confederate Memorial Day | United States |
| Monday | Apr 27 | Confederate Memorial Day | United States |
| Monday | Apr 27 | Public Holiday | Vietnam |
| Today in World History |
April 27
| 1296 | Edward I defeats the Scots at the Battle of Dunbar. | |
| 1509 | Pope Julius II excommunicates the Italian state of Venice. | |
| 1565 | The first Spanish settlement in Philippines is established in Cebu City. | |
| 1773 | British Parliament passes the Tea Act. | |
| 1746 | King George II wins the battle of Culloden. | |
| 1813 | American forces capture York (present-day Toronto), the seat of government in Ontario. | |
| 1861 | President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus. | |
| 1861 | West Virginia secedes from Virginia after Virginia secedes from the Union. | |
| 1863 | The Army of the Potomac begins marching on Chancellorsville. | |
| 1865 | The Sultana, a steam-powered riverboat, catches fire and burns after one of its boilers explodes. At least 1,238 of the 2,031 passengers–mostly former Union POWs–are killed. | |
| 1909 | The Sultan of Turkey, Abdul Hamid II, is overthrown. | |
| 1937 | German bombers of the Condor Legion devastate Guernica, Spain. | |
| 1941 | The Greek army capitulates to the invading Germans. | |
| 1950 | South Africa passes the Group Areas Act, formally segregating races. | |
| 1961 | The United Kingdom grants Sierra Leone independence. | |
| 1975 | Saigon is encircled by North Vietnamese troops. | |
| 1978 | The Afghanistan revolution begins. | |
| 1989 | Protesting students take over Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China. | |
| Born on April 27 | ||
| 1737 | Edward Gibbon, historian (The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire). | |
| 1791 | Samuel F.B. Morse, inventor of the telegraph and the code. | |
| 1822 | Ulysses S. Grant, Union general during the American Civil War, 18th President of the United States (1869-1877). | |
| 1840 | Edward Whymper, the first man to climb the Matterhorn. | |
| 1900 | Walter Lantz, cartoonist, creator of Woody Woodpecker. | |
| 1904 | Cecil Day-Lewis, Irish poet, father of actor Daniel Day-Lewis. | |
| 1927 | Coretta Scott King, civil rights activist, wife of Martin Luther King, Jr. | |
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