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:
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ÒPhysical activity can increase the production of new brain cells, a process highly correlated with learning, mood and memory.
ÒPlaying chess can increase students’ capabilities in reading and math by increasing attention, motivation, processing, and sequencing skills.
ÒThe arts can improve attention, sequencing, processing, and cognitive skills
ÒCompleting tasks administered by computer-aided instructional programs that have subjects identify, count, and remember objects and hold those objects’ locations in their working memories can increase attention and improve working memory within several weeks, even generalizing to improve performance on other memory tasks and an unrelated reasoning task. Music is a good example of a skill builder that can significantly improve students’ academic operating systems. Music training enhances self-discipline, wide brain function and verbal memory.
One key study examined an intervention that developed the practical intelligence (intelligence that is directly actionable in everyday life) of middle school students from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds attending diverse types of schools and found that it boosted achievement. Students who develop practical intelligence are able to self assess and self-correct during the learning process, instead of afterward. Teachers in the study were trained to deliver a program emphasizing five sources of metacognitive awareness: knowing why, knowing self, knowing differences, knowing process and revisiting
ÒThe thinking skills teachers taught enhance students’ practical and academic abilities in each of the target skill areas (reading, writing, homework, and test taking).
Announcements:
PBIS Skating today.
1st Grade Trip to Zoo
Assembly 8:00 2nd-5th
PBIS Skating today.
1st Grade Trip to Zoo
Assembly 8:00 2nd-5th
***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
5.22
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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; Skating Trip
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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 22 | Independence Day (day 2) | Montenegro |
| Friday | May 22 | Unity Day | Yemen |
| Today in World History |
May 22
| 1246 | Henry Raspe is elected anti-king by the Rhenish prelates in France. | |
| 1455 | King Henry VI is taken prisoner by the Yorkists at the Battle of St. Albans, during the War of the Roses. | |
| 1804 | The Lewis and Clark Expedition officially begins as the Corps of Discovery departs from St. Charles, Missouri. | |
| 1856 | U.S. Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina beats Senator Charles Sumner with a cane for Sumner's earlier condemnation of slavery, which included an insult to Brooks' cousin, Senator Andrew Butler. | |
| 1863 | Union General Ulysses S. Grant's second attack on Vicksburg fails and a siege begins. | |
| 1868 | The "Great Train Robbery" takes place as seven members of the Reno Gang make off with $98,000 in cash from a train's safe in Indiana. | |
| 1872 | The Amnesty Act restores civil rights to Southerners. | |
| 1882 | The United States formally recognizes Korea. | |
| 1908 | The Wright brothers register their flying machine for a U.S. patent. | |
| 1939 | Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini sign a "Pact of Steel" forming the Axis powers. | |
| 1947 | The Truman Doctrine brings aid to Turkey and Greece. | |
| 1967 | The children's program Mister Rogers' Neighborhood premiers. | |
| 1972 | Ceylon becomes the Republic of Sri Lanka as its constitution is ratified. | |
| 1985 | Baseball player Pete Rose passes Hank Aaron as National League run scoring leader with 2,108. | |
| 1987 | An Iraqi missile hits the American frigate USS Stark in the Persian Gulf. | |
| 1990 | In the Middle East, North and South Yemen merge to become a single state. | |
| Born on May 22 | ||
| 1813 | Richard Wagner, German composer. | |
| 1828 | Albrecht von Grafe, German eye surgeon, founder of modern opthamology. | |
| 1844 | Mary Cassatt, impressionist painter. | |
| 1859 | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author, creator of the Sherlock Holmes series. | |
| 1907 | Laurence Olivier, actor. | |
| 1920 | Thomas Gold, astronomer. | |
| 1927 | Peter Mathiessen, writer. | |
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