old SJA-EClass-Math

Ready for ISTEP+

2008-09-11T14:18:00.000-07:00

These past three weeks the students have been working feverishly to prepare themselves for the upcoming ISTEP+ tests. I feel they are well prepared. Please be sure they get plenty of rest for ISTEPs and have a good breakfast before coming to school. They may also bring a water bottle and healthy snacks such as nuts, peanut butter crackers or fruit to school.

2008-08-08T11:38:00.000-07:00

Welcome!

Middle School mathematics again has many interesting programs planned for the coming year. All middle school students will be participating in Sports Connections every other Monday. In this program, mentors from the Actuarial Foundation will assist us in exploring mathematical concepts through sports and technology. Sixth graders will also be visiting Junior Achievement's Exchange City after an exciting unit dealing with managing a company, running a city and learning many economic concepts such as balancing a checkbook. Seventh and eighth graders will learn about ecomonics through the ten-week Stock Market Simulation.

We will have a Math Family Night in November and a Math Fair second semester. Our classes will be filled with fun experiences that hopefully will create a love of mathematics in our students.

Feel free to come see what is happening in math at any time.

Blessings to all,

Mrs. Groves

Welcome to your SJA eClassroom

2008-08-07T19:05:00.001-07:00

Your eClassroom is a new tool to enhance the educational experience for you, your students and their families

An eClassroom is Essentially a Blog
Perhaps one of the most fascinating tools that has emerged from the Internet cloud in recent years is the Blog. A shortening of the term Web log, the Blog is an online publishing tool that enables people to easily publish their loves, passions, dislikes, peeves, discoveries, and insights.

Blogging is also showing up in schools, where teachers have known for a long time that students develop better communication skills when they are authentically communicating. A number of educators are helping their students developing their writing skills by having them publish their work as blogs, and then invite comments from people in the outside.

There are many freely available tools that facilitate blogging, but none seem especially suited for the classroom. That is the reason for developing the eClassroom for SJA. This online blogging tool is explicitly designed with teachers and students in mind, where the teacher can evaluate, comment on, and finally publish students' blog articles in a controlled environment. It is and will be constantly in development. We need your input to refine the look, content, layout of the eClassroom.

There are many options available to teachers who utilize web journals (blogs) to enhance the learning experience. Teaching in a participatory culture can be challenging, but rewarding. Today, teachers have to learn to communicate in the language and style of their students—who some call digital natives (inhabitants of the Web 2.0 world).

Assignments, etc.
For students in grades 4—8, the eClassroom will be the source point for classroom activites, supplemental learning resources, assignments, long-tern projects, links to relevant sites, field trips, etc. How you integrate your eClassroom may vary from other teachers, but understand that with regular use, this tool will become a vital part of your curriculum and teaching style.