"The Winner Takes it All. . . . ."

Recognition, honor, and party marked the simple awards day for the winners of our Attendance Tracking Initiative. Since its inception on October 2008, it’s been observed that some classes are consistently keeping up with their interests and motivations to come to classes on a regular basis. The most consistent winner, cruising its way month after month so far, is class LHE under Mr. Amir Rasoulpour – Teacher, and ably supported by Case Workers Adrienne Harris and Ana Wilson. They’ve been winning all the way from October ’08 to February 2009. Our Program Director Maritza K. Pritsos and Site Supervisors Annora Cadogan and Beverly Campbell were all praises for the group and at the same time wishing them renewed interest and to keep up the good work. Congratulations!

Other winners for A Week were:
Classes Teachers: Case Workers:
GHE Mr. Nathan Stevens Ms. Kimberly Blair
WHG Ms. Donna Ortiz & Ms. Fatima Gaspar Ms. Lilian Estrella


Other winners for B Week were:
Classes: Teachers: Case Workers:
WHS Mr. Nathan Stevens Ms. Kimberly Blair
LHB Mr. Amir Rasoulpour Ms. Adrienne Harris & Ana Wilson
LHC Ms. Donna Ortiz & Ms. Fatima Gaspar Ms. Lilian Estrella

GHD Mr. Junior Johnson Ms. Adrienne Harris
WHB Ms. Christine Steele Ms. Kimberly Blair

Attendance Tracking Initiative

Winners for the Class of the Month from December 2008 to February 2009 were released today. Congratulations students and teachers. Celebrate!!!! Click on the link below to view.

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=p24SVq_FunywwxsakZgnKEA&hl=en

Learn and Help a Worthy Cause

Yes, you can work on your Language and vocabulary, Math, Science, Geography, Arts, and other subjects. Every time you get a correct answer rice is donated to help ease poverty and hunger. Click on the link below and start helping and learning more.

World Math Day 2009

"1,2,3, Boys and Girls, Ladies and Gentlemen Stop"; and with that the World Maths Day 2009 officially ended. Thank yous and Congratulations were all over the web to all the participants and teachers behind them. The sponsors Voyager and UNICEF were all praises for the 48-hour web based Math challenge of historical proportions.

Total participants: 2,001,570
Number of countries: 204
Total questions answered in 48 hours: 452,681,681
Total number of schools – 20,000

Top 3 Individual Students
1st: Kaya G - Team Australia - 129,106
2nd: David M - Aloha College, Spain - 119,843
3rd: David A - Fraser Coast Anglican College, Australia - 115,571

Top 3 Individual Classes
1st: F2 Team A - Cempaka Schools, Malaysia - 1,004,202
2nd: F3 Team A - Cempaka Schools, Malaysia - 975,339
3rd: F4 Team A - Cempaka Schools, Malaysia - 818,083

Just for the thrill of it....
I checked in on the world event twice and the third time would be the final result. Here's how it was at:

10:04 PM 07: 55: 36 to finish
10,399 - users online
Total CORRECT answers 406,803,759

12:21 AM 05: 38: 49 to finish
7289 - users online
Total CORRECT answers 418,402,959

Afterthought....

Where was United States? Up to midnight last night, the top US class was hanging on to 10th place and when it's all over it dropped to 17th place. Still not bad considering that there were 20,000 schools in total.

The top 10 classes were all Malaysia, except the 7th placer which was Tevitol High class 9 from Turkey. Like any international event, flag Malaysia was all over. along with Turkey.

Two new words I learned: mathometer & mathletes

National Reading Day - March 2, 2009

Hello Reading Teachers

Are we doing something special to motivate our students to read for themselves and to their children?

For 12 years now, NEA The National Education Association annually sponsors Read Across America. Let's log in to: http://www.nea.org/ to get some help and use some of their resources that they're suggesting we can; my choice is the certificate for the adult who will read to a child.

PS to National Reading Day-

We're snowed out and we have extra time to devote to reading.