Dear Parents of 4th and 5th Graders,
We would like to invite you to an informational meeting about the Academic Games program being offered for 4th and 5th grade students at King Elementary School. This meeting will be held Monday, September 17 from 7:00 to 7:30 PM in the King Multipurpose Room. Even if your children attended 4th Grade AG last year, please plan to attend.
Practice times have been set for Tuesday and Thursday evenings, from 7:00 to 8:00 PM, and will be held in the King School Music Room. Practices will begin for interested students in either 4th or 5th grade on Thursday, September 20th. Academic Games is sponsored by the King School PTO.
We look forward to meeting with you on Thursday the 13th.
Sincerely,
Mike Vanek and Christy Vanek
What is Academic Games?
Academic Games (AG) is a group of games designed to test and improve a student's knowledge in several different subject areas. There are games that cover math, English, social studies, and logic. The primary purpose of AG is to make learning fun for students. All too often it seems, students turn off to Math, English, or Social Studies because they are bored or not challenged by the material. AG helps to solve that problem by making learning about the subjects more interesting and fun. There is also the added motivation to do well in order to succeed in competition.
Which games do students play in AG? *
The first game students learn is Equations, a mathematics game created by University of Michigan Law Professor Layman Allen in the mid 1960's. Players use numerals and mathematical symbols on special dice to create a goal, and then try to come up with a solution before their opponents.
Similar to the popular card game, "Set", On-Sets is a game that involves Set Theory, where students must find groups of colors using set operations.
Linguishtik is an English Grammar game, where students must find a word and place it into a particular type of sentence.
On-Words is a word game involving spelling, counting, grammar, phonetics, word roots, inflectional endings, prefixes and suffixes
Presidents is an American History game that tests students' knowledge of the American Presidents, and the events that happened during their presidencies.
In Propaganda, students learn to recognize and understand different techniques of persuasion.
Wff N' Proof is a game of symbolic logic, where students must construct proofs to prove logical arguments that they create.
In World Card, students must research a particular topic and create a reference book to be used in competitions.
(These brief game descriptions came from the Michigan League of Academic Games website: mlagonline.com, where more information on games and rules can be found.)
* Our King Elementary students will be learning Equations, On-Sets, On-Words, Presidents, and Propaganda.
