Hello All,
Hope everyone is having an enjoyable winter break. I wanted to provide a little status update. When practice resumes next week, we will begin preparations in earnest for the State tournament in March. I will email a letter later this week providing details for the tournament. The cost per student this year for the tournament will be $335. This includes registration, room, board, meals, and transportation to and from the tournament. We will have limited scholarship money available.
Some important dates coming up in early January:
Saturday January 11 - Saturday tournament
Monday January 13 - Linguishtik worksheets due. Presidents and Propaganda questions from 8th graders due.
Friday January 17 - State tournament money and health form due
Monday January 20 - No practice
Tuesday January 21 - Special practice, State tournament teams announced.
Please note we also have an Academic Games sponsored fun night coming up (more details coming really soon). This is our big fundraiser for the year, and we ask all Academic Games parents to volunteer at the Fun Night.
I will post some info detailing the Propaganda techniques we learned before break and some that we are going to learn right after break. I have also posted a set of Presidents worksheets on the right. No points will be awarded for these, but they are a very useful study tool. I would also recommend everyone take a look at AGLOA.org, the official national AG website. They have a section called online learning that has both Presidents and Propaganda quizzes.
Only 64 more days until States!
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Tuesday, December 31, 2013
Wednesday, November 27, 2013
Late November Updates
Hello All!
Just a quick note to provide some updates on practices, tournaments and worksheets.
Equations worksheets were turned in by the students on Monday. For the most part, I was very pleased with the time and effort the students put into the worksheets. I told the students at practice that I think that these worksheets might be the single hardest thing we do in AG, so I was very proud of their work. Most students turned in worksheets. Over half the students got ten or more sheets completed with at least a third of the students getting the maximum number of points. I will check off points for the students and return the worksheets Monday next week. I would encourage kids to keep working on the worksheets if they didn't complete all of them, and to save the worksheets to study from for future tournaments. I have posted the answer key for the worksheets in the right sidebar so that each student can check their own answers.
I have also posted the On-Sets worksheets on the right. These worksheets are considerably easier than the Equations worksheets, I believe, and there are fewer of them. Any student can get up to ten points for completing these worksheets, and they are due before winter break (our last practice is December 20). Although we won't spend as much time in practice working on these worksheets as we did with the EQ worksheets, I would still encourage every kid to print them out and bring them to each practice.
Our mini-Presidents tournaments are going well. As many of you may know, on Fridays after our cube game tournament, we have been reading five Presidents questions, keeping score for everyone, and tracking the average Presidents score for each grade. As you might guess, the eight graders have the highest overall average, but the 7th graders have been closing the gap, and the sixth graders have been as improving as well. To improve Presidents scores, I would recommend every student find a good book about the Presidents, or a good digital source of information, and spend at least 10-15 minutes per day reading and / or studying that material. You can find good, cheap Presidents books at most bookstores (they still have those?), or on Amazon. There are a host of Presidential trivia apps you can get for either an IPhone or an Android based phone. And you can find Presidents quizzes on the national Academic Games website (agloa.org). I will also post some Presidents worksheets that can be used as study guides a little later in the year.
Finally, we have begun learning our fourth game, Linguishtik. A game that tests students' vocabulary, and their knowledge of English grammar, many students struggle with the game when we first learn it because those are subjects that aren't taught very much in school. I told them to imagine what it would have been like to learn Equations with knowing how to subtract or multiply. I told them not to get discouraged, and to make sure they take good notes when they are learning. I will post some Linguishtik worksheets which contain a lot of lessons within them sometime before next Monday. Those worksheets will not be due until after we return from break in January.
So much for this being a quick note (!) Hope you are all having a good Thanksgiving break - eat lots of turkey (or tofurky if you prefer), watch some parades or some football, and maybe study some Pres ;-)
Just a quick note to provide some updates on practices, tournaments and worksheets.
Equations worksheets were turned in by the students on Monday. For the most part, I was very pleased with the time and effort the students put into the worksheets. I told the students at practice that I think that these worksheets might be the single hardest thing we do in AG, so I was very proud of their work. Most students turned in worksheets. Over half the students got ten or more sheets completed with at least a third of the students getting the maximum number of points. I will check off points for the students and return the worksheets Monday next week. I would encourage kids to keep working on the worksheets if they didn't complete all of them, and to save the worksheets to study from for future tournaments. I have posted the answer key for the worksheets in the right sidebar so that each student can check their own answers.
I have also posted the On-Sets worksheets on the right. These worksheets are considerably easier than the Equations worksheets, I believe, and there are fewer of them. Any student can get up to ten points for completing these worksheets, and they are due before winter break (our last practice is December 20). Although we won't spend as much time in practice working on these worksheets as we did with the EQ worksheets, I would still encourage every kid to print them out and bring them to each practice.
Our mini-Presidents tournaments are going well. As many of you may know, on Fridays after our cube game tournament, we have been reading five Presidents questions, keeping score for everyone, and tracking the average Presidents score for each grade. As you might guess, the eight graders have the highest overall average, but the 7th graders have been closing the gap, and the sixth graders have been as improving as well. To improve Presidents scores, I would recommend every student find a good book about the Presidents, or a good digital source of information, and spend at least 10-15 minutes per day reading and / or studying that material. You can find good, cheap Presidents books at most bookstores (they still have those?), or on Amazon. There are a host of Presidential trivia apps you can get for either an IPhone or an Android based phone. And you can find Presidents quizzes on the national Academic Games website (agloa.org). I will also post some Presidents worksheets that can be used as study guides a little later in the year.
Finally, we have begun learning our fourth game, Linguishtik. A game that tests students' vocabulary, and their knowledge of English grammar, many students struggle with the game when we first learn it because those are subjects that aren't taught very much in school. I told them to imagine what it would have been like to learn Equations with knowing how to subtract or multiply. I told them not to get discouraged, and to make sure they take good notes when they are learning. I will post some Linguishtik worksheets which contain a lot of lessons within them sometime before next Monday. Those worksheets will not be due until after we return from break in January.
So much for this being a quick note (!) Hope you are all having a good Thanksgiving break - eat lots of turkey (or tofurky if you prefer), watch some parades or some football, and maybe study some Pres ;-)
Monday, September 14, 2009
Welcome to Academic Games, 2009 - 2010
Welcome Back,
I hope everyone had an enjoyable and restful summer vacation.
Academic Games begins for all interested students this Friday after school from 3-5 pm. Our practice schedule will remain the same this year as it was last year, Mondays 7-9 pm, and Fridays after school. Our first Saturday tournament will be a week from Saturday at Clague. A complete schedule is posted to the right, and is included in the Welcome Letter than is also posted on the right.
We have a big addition to the team this year, as Vivek Thanabal will be joining us as a coach. A former AG player at Clague and Huron, Vivek is a freshman in the UofM engineering school. Vivek was quite successful as a player at Clague, having been part of a number of championship teams at the State and National levels. I know he is looking forward to the new challenges that coaching brings.
If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to email me at ericnelsonag@comcast.net
Look forward to seeing everyone on Friday
Eric
I hope everyone had an enjoyable and restful summer vacation.
Academic Games begins for all interested students this Friday after school from 3-5 pm. Our practice schedule will remain the same this year as it was last year, Mondays 7-9 pm, and Fridays after school. Our first Saturday tournament will be a week from Saturday at Clague. A complete schedule is posted to the right, and is included in the Welcome Letter than is also posted on the right.
We have a big addition to the team this year, as Vivek Thanabal will be joining us as a coach. A former AG player at Clague and Huron, Vivek is a freshman in the UofM engineering school. Vivek was quite successful as a player at Clague, having been part of a number of championship teams at the State and National levels. I know he is looking forward to the new challenges that coaching brings.
If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to email me at ericnelsonag@comcast.net
Look forward to seeing everyone on Friday
Eric
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Important News
Important News from the MLAG:
The dates of the Middle (and HS) State tournament have been changed from March 4-6th to March 18-20. The tournament dates for the 6th graders have not changed.
I will send you an email with full details as I receive them.
Eric
The dates of the Middle (and HS) State tournament have been changed from March 4-6th to March 18-20. The tournament dates for the 6th graders have not changed.
I will send you an email with full details as I receive them.
Eric
Sunday, September 7, 2008
Welcome
Welcome to Academic Games at Clague for the 2008-09 School Year. We will use this blog to keep all of you updated on practice and tournament schedules, to publicize results from Friday, Saturday tournaments, as well as to let you know what we are working on at practices. When we go to the State and National tournaments, we will use the blog to provide those of you at home with updates from the tournament. If you have any questions or suggestions of things you'd like to see posted let me know.
Thank You, and here's to another successful year
Eric
Thank You, and here's to another successful year
Eric
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