Exciting Ways to Use Technology in the Classroom

1. Have teams of students create their own "documentaries," interviewing war veterans, Holocaust survivors, and other people with first-hand historical experience.


2. Produce a monthly podcast— students each have their own role in the production and can report on school events, local news, and featured students.


3. Arm students with a camera and a theme and ask them to make a collage, album, or other project with their photos.


4. Create a classroom newsletter using a layout or word processing program—students can be reporters, photographers, editors, and more.


5. With the help of a web savvy parent or volunteer, let students plan and help create a web site for an upcoming school event.


6. Match students up with virtual penpals in other countries—a great way to let students practice their writing while learning about other cultures.


7. Encourage students to start their own blogs—they are free, easy to use, and are another great way to encourage writing.


8. Start a wiki to let students collaborate on ideas, share links, and brainstorm for projects.


9. Create a book of short stories—students write their stories, type them up, create illustrations in a drawing program or scan in their hand-drawn artwork, then compile them into a published book which can be printed at your local print shop.


10. MySatori™ allows students to get ready for their state's high-stakes tests online, while enjoying the motivation of animated "warm fuzzies" and games.

MySatori™ Usage Hits New Highs

More and more schools and students are taking advantage of the exceptional features provided by MySatori™. Since our release in March 2007, usage has increased by almost 4500%!

We are so proud to be helping so many get ready for this year's high stakes tests, and look forward to preparing many many more students in the months to come.

Let us know what you need! Call a Sleek representative at 800-337-5335 or send an email to info@sleek.com—we can answer your questions and create a custom solution for your school!

Fun Fall Projects to Teach Math Skills

1. Cut apples into halves, quarters, and eighths to teach fractions


2. Give each group of students a pumpkin and ask them to estimate how many seeds are inside


3. Go on a leaf hunt, then split the leaves into different categories - by shape, size, color, etc. - and create bar graphs to show how many there are of each.


4. Using a bathroom scale, have students weigh themselves, then weigh themselves holding a pumpkin, and ask them to then figure out the weight of the pumpkin.


5. Use a venn diagram to compare pumpkins to apples (or use any fall produce)


6. Discuss math strategies to estimate how many leaves are on a tree.


7. Chart fall temperatures using the weather page of your local paper. Create graphs to show how the temperature goes up and down over the course of a month.


8. Have each student bring a squash or gourd to school. Calculate their lengths, weights, and circumferences, then make charts comparing the different types.


9. In honor of Columbus/Explorer's Day, calculate how many miles different explorers traveled. Compare which ones traveled the farthest, and the differences between each mileage total.


10. Collect acorns and then have students see how many different kinds of math problems they can come up with using them.

New in MySatori!

We are continually working behind the scenes to make MySatori™ the best tool available for test preparation. This is one of the many benefits of using MySatori™ - the program is updated and upgraded without you ever having to do a thing - it simply gets better and better and you enjoy the results.

We have recently made the following additions and improvements to your MySatori™:

More intuitive navigation to help you find what you need more quickly and easily

New reports have been added and a new interface for generating reports was implemented

New answer choice buttons to clarify for students how to answer questions



Enjoy these new features, and feel free to share with us your ideas for improving MySatori™!