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
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:
cont.
Empower students.
Ò Introducing conflict resolution skills. For exampls, teach students a multistep process for handling upsets, stating with step 1: “Take a deep breath and count to five.”
ÒTeaching students how to deal with anger and frustration
ÒIntroducing responsibilities and the value of giving restitution. In schools that embrace restitution, students understand that if they disrupt class, they need to “make it right “ by doing something positive for the class. For example, a student who throws objects in the classroom may be assigned a cleaning or beautification project for the room.
ÒTeaching students to set goals and focus on what they want.
Empower students.
Ò Role-modeling how to solve real-world problems. Such examples show students how to take responsibility for and resolve the challenges they face in life.
ÒGiving students a weekly life problem to solve collectively
ÒTeaching social skills. For example, before each social interaction (pair share or buddy teaching), ask students to make eye contact, shake hands, and give a greeting. At the end they should thank their partners.
ÒIntroducing a stress reduction technique, both physical and mental (yoga and mindfulness/meditation).
Announcements:
Soccer Games Today!!!!
Soccer Games Today!!!!
Yes, everyone. It is Friday. It is Dress Down Day. Whatever you do today----enjoy it.
Smile everyone.
***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
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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EOG TEST TRAINING--11:55 (3rd grade)
--1:45 (5th grade)
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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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TEST TRAINING--12:45 (4th grade)
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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; Ready EOG window opens; TRC window closes; all classroom displays to be taken down for EOG
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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; 3,4,5 teachers stay afterschool for bubble party
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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; 3rd grade teachers afterschool for bubble party
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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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3rd grade teachers stay after to edit answer sheets
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6.11
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6.12
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Holidays Around the World
| Friday | May 15 | Teacher´s Day | Colombia |
| Friday | May 15 | Feast Day of St Isidore | Spain |
| Friday | May 15 | Al Isra' wal Miraj | Jordan |
| Friday | May 15 | Ascension Day Holiday | Liechtenstein |
| Friday | May 15 | Europe Day | Moldova |
| Friday | May 15 | Family Day | Moldova |
| Friday | May 15 | Independence Day | Paraguay |
| Today in World History |
- May 15
756 Abd-al-Rahman is proclaimed emir of Cordoba, Spain. 1213 King John submits to the Pope, offering to make England and Ireland papal fiefs. Pope Innocent III lifts the interdict of 1208. 1602 English navigator Bartholomew Gosnold discovers Cape Cod. 1614 An aristocratic uprising in France ends with treaty of St. Menehould. 1618 Johannes Kepler discovers his harmonics law. 1702 The War of Spanish Succession begins. 1730 Following the resignation of Lord Townshend, Robert Walpole becomes the sole minister in the English cabinet. 1768 By the Treaty of Versailles, France purchases Corsica from Genoa. 1795 Napoleon enters the Lombardian capital of Milan in triumph. 1820 The U.S. Congress designates the slave trade a form of piracy. 1849 Neapolitan troops enter Palermo, Sicily. 1862 The Union ironclad Monitor and the gunboat Galena fire on Confederate troops at the Battle of Drewry's Bluff, Virginia. 1864 At the Battle of New Market, Virginia Military Institute cadets repel a Union attack. 1886 Emily Dickinson dies in Amherst, Mass., where she had lived in seclusion for the previous 24 years. 1916 U.S. Marines land in Santo Domingo to quell civil disorder. 1918 Pfc. Henry Johnson and Pfc. Needham Roberts receive the Croix de Guerre for their services in World War I. They are the first Americans to win France's highest military medal. 1930 Ellen Church becomes the first airline stewardess. 1942 The United States begins rationing gasoline. 1958 Sputnik III is launched by the Soviet Union. 1963 The last Project Mercury space flight, carrying Gordon Cooper, is launched. 1968 U.S. Marines relieve army troops in Nhi Ha, South Vietnam after a fourteen-day battle. 1972 George Wallace is shot by Arthur Bremer in Laurel, Maryland. 1975 The merchant ship Mayaguez is recaptured from Cambodia's Khmer Rouge. 1988 Soviets forces begin their withdrawal from Afghanistan. Born on May 15 1773 Prince Clemens Von Metternich, Chancellor of Austria. 1856 Lyman Frank Baum, author (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz). 1858 Emily Folger, Shakespeare scholar. 1859 Pierre Curie, physicist. 1860 Ellen Louise Axson Wilson, first wife of President Woodrow Wilson. 1890 Katherine Anne Porter, novelist (Ship of Fools). 1891 Mikhail Bulgakov, Russian novelist (Notes of a Dead Man, Heart of a Dog). 1902 Richard Daley, mayor of Chicago through the 1960s and early 1970's. 1923 Richard Avedon, photographer. 1926 Anthony Shaffer, English playwright (Sleuth), twin brother of Peter Shaffer. 1926 Peter Shaffer, English playwright (Equus, Amadeus), twin brother of Anthony Shaffer. 1930 Jasper Johns, Jr., painter, leader of the Pop Art movement.
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