June 8, 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

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

3rd, 4th, and 5th grades, the 4 A assembly is this afternoon at 1:30.

5th Grade trip is 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

6.8	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

Monday	Jun 8	Queen's Birthday	Australia
Monday	Jun 8	Corpus Christi	Colombia, Venezuela

Today in World History

Today in History
June 8

452		Attila the Hun invades Italy.
632		Mohammed, the founder of Islam and unifier of Arabia, dies.
793		The Vikings raid the Northumbrian coast of England.
1861		Tennessee votes to secede from the Union and join the Confederacy.
1862		The Army of the Potomac defeats Confederate forces at Battle of Cross Keys, Virginia.
1863		Residents of Vicksburg flee into caves as General Ulysses S. Grant’s army begins shelling the town.
1866		Prussia annexes the region of Holstein.
1904		U.S. Marines land in Tangiers, Morocco, to protect U.S. citizen.
1908		King Edward VII of England visits Czar Nicholas II of Russia in an effort to improve relations between the two countries.
1915		William Jennings Bryan quits as Secretary of State under President Wilson.
1953		The Supreme Court forbids segregated lunch counters in Washington, D.C.
1965		President Johnson authorizes commanders in Vietnam to commit U.S. ground forces to combat.
1966		Gemini astronaut Gene Cernan attempts to become the first man to orbit the Earth untethered to a space capsule, but is unable to when he exhausts himself fitting into his rocket pack.
1967		Israel airplanes attack the USS Liberty, a surveillance ship, in the Mediterranean, killing 34 Navy crewmen.
1968		James Earl Ray, the alleged assassin of Martin Luther King, Jr., is captured at the London Airport.
1969		President Richard Nixon meets with President Thieu of South Vietnam to tell him 25,000 U.S. troops will pull out by August.
1995		U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O’Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in Bosnia.
Born on June 8
1625		Giovanni Domenico Cassini, astronomer.
1724		John Smeaton, English engineer.
1810		Robert Schumann, German composer.
1813		David D. Porter, Union admiral during the American Civil War.
1867		Frank Lloyd Wright, influential American architect.
1916		Francis Crick, British scientist who co-discoverered of the structure of DNA.
1918		Robert Preston, actor (The Music Man).
1925		Barbara Pierce Bush, First Lady to 41st President, George Bush.
1939		Herb Adderley, American football player.
1942		Andrew Weil, physician and author (Spontaneous Healing).
1947		Sara Paretsky, detective novelist.