November Update

A quick update for you on all things Clague AG:

1) 37 students attended the tournament for Clague on Saturday at Northville High School.  Clague again finished first in top five with a score of 96 out of 100 (2nd place was 93), and second in average with 14.76 (1st place was 15.39, third place was 14.61).  For the year, Clague is in 1st place in the Region for Top Five, and in 2nd place for Average.  Top Scores (18 or higher) were recorded by the following Clague Students:

Claire W.

David C.

Kevin S.

Lucas L.

Matthew Z.

Nathan L.

Pierce C.

Rogan G.

Shulamite T.

Congrats to all the Clague students for a great tournament.  Our next tournament will be December 7, at the University Activities Center at the UofM Dearborn.

2) We begin learning Linguishtik at practice this evening, while continuing to work on the other games.  The WFF practices from 5-5:30 on Friday have been going well, and we have uploaded the WFF guide to the right.

3) A reminder that Equations worksheets are due next Monday.  We will be posting On-Sets worksheets here shortly thereafter, and they will be due before winter break.

4) This Friday the Thurston and Logan team will be joining our practice from 4-5:30.  Our elementary students will be working with them and playing a round of Equations.

5) Finally, this Wednesday 4-8pm Ann Arbor AG will be holding another fundraiser, this time at Chipotle on Washtenaw.  Show this flyer when you purchase dinner and A2AG will receive 33% of what you spend.

Thank you for your support of AG at Clague,

Your coaching staff,

Eric, Lee & Yuxuan

October Update

Some updates as we start our second month of AG:

1) We did well at our first Saturday tournament on the 28th.  We had 44 students at the tournament, averaged 14.66 points, good for second place in the tournament (first place was 15.04, third place was 13.65) and had a top five score (sum of our five highest score) of 93, good for first place in the tournament! (second place was 90).  Our next tournament will be October 19 at Pioneer High School.  This is a change in location from the original scheduled Huron High School (see updated schedule to the right)

2) The students are continuing to learn Equations variations and strategies, and we will be playing Equations at the next tournament.  We have uploaded Equations worksheets to the to the right.  There is a packet for Elementary players (6th graders) and one for Middle players (7th and 8th grade).  We will not be printing out copies, so it is up to each student to print them out on their own. Worksheets are due before Thanksgiving break.  

For every page completed, students will get one point added to their Friday tournament score, regardless of the number of problems they get correct. The idea is to reward effort. Students are encouraged to bring their worksheet packet with them to all practices, as we will often have times when they can work on them with other students.

6th and 7th grade students can get a maximum of 20 points from the worksheets, while returning 8th grade students can only get points for the worksheets that have not been in previous years' packets (Pages 7L, 7N, 7O, 7P, 7Q, 8A, 8B, 8C, 8D, & 8E)

3) The students have also begun learning a second game, Presidents.  We will be competing in Presidents amongst our team on every Friday, after our normal cube game round is over (Pres. Progression).  We have uploaded some Presidents study guides to the right.  Although students will not receive points for completing those worksheets as they do with Equations, they are very helpful in improving their Presidents scores.  Additionally, our 8th graders are putting together some Quizlets to help all the students study.

4) A quick reminder to turn in your registration sheet (Welcom letter linked to the right) if you have not already.

5) Finally  on October 29th, we will be holding a fundraiser at Panera on Washtenaw for all of Ann Arbor Academic Games.  A flier for that event is also linked to the right.