June 10, 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

Global Learners

Yep!

Finish strong!

Summer Reading from ASCD

http://www.ascd.org/professional-development/summer-reading-list.aspx?utm_source=eblast&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=summerreading2015-email-6315

http://ictevangelist.com/30-essential-ipad-apps-for-the-paperless-classroom-infographic/

Ideas to try, now that testing is over:  

https://www.pinterest.com/adabjones/testing-is-over-now-what/

http://lauracandler.blogspot.com/2011/05/testings-over-now-what.html

http://www.teachingbites.com/aftertestingideas/

Announcements:

RTA Testing in 3rd grade this morning.  

Kindergarten will meet in the gym for a short assembly this morning.


***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

6.10					RTA Retest, PBIS Water Day, 3rd grade teachers stay after to edit answer sheets
6.11					Awards Day 8-830 K1, 8:45 2-4,  Staff v. Students Soccer 10 AM, BBall 1 PM
6.12					5th Grade Ceremony 9 AM

Holidays Around the World

Wednesday

Jun 10

Portugal Day

Portugal

Today in World History

• Today in History
  June 10

  1190		Frederick Barbarossa drowns in a river while leading an army of the Third Crusade.
  1692		Bridget Bishop is hanged in Salem, Mass., for witchcraft.
  1776		The Continental Congress appoints a committee to write a Declaration of Independence.
  1801		Tripoli declares war on the U.S. for refusing to pay tribute.
  1854		The U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, holds its first graduation.
  1861		Dorothea Dix is appointed superintendent of femaleNURSES for the Union army.
  1864		At the Battle of Brice’s Crossroads in Mississippi, Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest defeats the numerically superior Union troops.
  1898		U.S. Marines land in Cuba.
  1905		Japan and RussiaAGREE to peace talks brokered by President Theodore Roosevelt.
  1909		An SOS signal is transmitted for the first time in an emergency when the Cunard liner SSSlavonia is wrecked off the Azores.
  1916		Mecca, under control of the Turks, falls to the Arabs during the Great Arab Revolt.
  1920		The Republican convention in Chicago endorses woman suffrage.
  1924		The Italian socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti is kidnapped and assassinated by Fascists in Rome.
  1925		Tennessee adopts a new biology text bookDENYING the theory of evolution.
  1940		The Norwegian army capitulates to the Germans.
  1942		Germany razes the town of Lidice, Czechoslovakia and kills more than 1,300 citizens in retribution of the murder of Reinhard Heydrich.
  1943		The AlliesBEGIN bombing Germany around theCLOCK.
  1944		The U.S. VII and V corps, advancing from Normandy’s beaches, link up and begin moving inland.
  1948		The news that the sound barrier has been broken is finally released to the public by the U.S. Air Force. Chuck Yeager, piloting the rocket airplane X-1, exceeded the speed of sound on October 14, 1947.
  1963		Buddhist monk Ngo Quang Duc dies by self immolation in Saigon to protest persecution by the Diem government.
  1970		A 15-man group of special forces troops beginTRAINING for Operation Kingpin, a POW rescue mission in North Vietnam.
  1985		The Israeli army pulls out of Lebanon after 1,099 days of occupation.
  1999		Serb forces begin their withdrawl from Kosovo after signing an agreement with the NATO powers.
  Born on June 10
  1735		John Morgan, physician-in-chief of the American Continental Army.
  1895		Hattie McDaniel, African-American actress.
  1901		Frederick Loewe, songwriter.
  1915		Saul Bellow, American novelist (Herzog, Humboldt’sGIFT).
  1922		JudyGARLAND (Frances Ethel Gumm), American actress and singer (The Wizard of Oz,Easter Parade).
  1925		Nat Hentoff, journalist.
  1928		Maurice Sendak, children’s author and illustrator (Where the Wild Things Are).
  1933		F. Lee Bailey, American defense attorney.