June 5, 2014

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.   

It's Friday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Please, whatever you do, do it responsibly.  Not like these people.

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

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:




*We need to raise another $230 by Friday for our UNCF campaign.  Please consider donating $5 or more to this worthy organization.  If you donate $20, or more, you will receive a Jean's Coupon.   Many of us have already benefited from the UNCF.  Many Speas students will benefit from the UNCF in the future.  If you need a form see Mrs. Johnson today.

***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

6.5	4	C	X
6.8	5	D	X		4a's assembly AM
6.9
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

Holidays Around the World

Friday	Jun 5	Randol Fawkes Labour Day	The Bahamas
Friday	Jun 5	Constitution Day	Denmark
Friday	Jun 5	President´s Day	Equatorial Guinea
Friday	Jun 5	Revolt of Khordad 15	Iran
Friday	Jun 5	Corpus Christi Holiday	Liechtenstein
Friday	Jun 5	World Environment Day	Moldova

Today in World History

June 5

1099		Members of the First Crusade witness an eclipse of the moon and interpret it as a sign they will recapture Jerusalem.
1568		Ferdinand, the Duke of Alba, crushes the Calvinist insurrection in Ghent.
1595		Henry IV’s army defeats the Spanish at the Battle of Fontaine-Francaise.
1637		American settlers in New England massacre a Pequot Indian village.
1783		Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier make the first public balloon flight.
1794		The U.S. Congress prohibits citizens from serving in any foreign armed forces.
1827		Athens falls to Ottoman forces.
1851		Harriet Beecher Stow publishes the first installment of Uncle Tom’s Cabin in The National Era.
1856		U.S. Army troops in the Four creeks region of California, head back to quarters, officially ending the Tule River War. Fighting, however, will continue for a few more years.
1863		The Confederate raider CSS Alabama captures the Talisman in the Mid-Atlantic.
1872		The Republican National Convention, the first major political party convention to includes blacks, commences.
1880		Wild woman of the west Myra Maybelle Shirley marries Sam Starr even though records show she was already married to Bruce Younger.
1900		British troops under Lord Roberts seize Pretoria from the Boers.
1940		The German army begins its offensive in Southern France.
1944		The first B-29 bombing raid strikes the Japanese rail line in Bangkok, Thailand.
1947		Secretary of State George C. Marshall outlines "The Marshall Plan," a program intended to assist European nations, including former enemies, to rebuild their economies.
1956		Premier Nikita Khrushchev denounces Josef Stalin to the Soviet Communist Party Congress.
1967		The Six-Day War between Israel and Egypt, Syria and Jordan begins.
1968		Sirhan Sirhan shoots Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy after Kennedy’s victory in the pivotal California primary election.
1973		Doris A. Davis becomes the first African-American woman to govern a city in a major metropolitan area when she is elected mayor of Compton, California.
2004		Former U.S. President Ronald Reagan dies at age 93. Reagan was the 40th president of the United States.
Born on June 5
1723		Adam Smith, Scottish philosopher and economist.
1878		Francisco "Pancho" Villa, Mexican revolutionary and guerrilla leader.
1883		John Maynard Keynes, economist.
1884		Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett, British author.
1898		Federico Garcia Lorca, Spanish poet and dramatist.
1915		Alfred Kazin, critic and editor (A Walker in the City).
1919		Richard Scarry, Children’s author and illustrator.
1926		David Wagoner, poet and novelist (The Escape Artist).
1932		Christy Brown, Irish novelist and poet (My Left Foot).
1939		Margaret Drabble, English novelist (The Millstone, The Realms of Gold).
1947		David Hare, British playwright and director (A Map of the World, Slag).
1949		Ken Follett, novelist (Eye of the Needle, On The Wings of Eagles).