MySatori Test Practice

Help All of Your Students Catch up to Grade Level

2008-03-31T05:35:00.003-07:00

Get 20 Seats each of 5 off-grade-level MySatori™ for TAKS titles for only $500! Use off-grade-level titles for remediation to bring your students up to grade level, or for advanced preparation! Off-grade-level titles are for grades that are not found on your campus, such as 5th grade titles for a middle school.

Offer expires April 30, 2008. Call 800-337-5335 today or fax your Purchase Order to 888-353-2900!

NEW Lab Solution Bundles—Special Pricing for a Limited Time!

2008-03-31T05:35:00.001-07:00

ONLY in the month of April, you can get a TAKS Lab Solution Bundle for your campus—25 seats EACH of every TAKS title applicable to your campus—for one year for only $4050! Get a 3-year license for only $6500! Use the codeword EXTENDED by April 15th to extend the 1 or 3 year subscription by 3 months!

Offer expires April 30, 2008. Call 800-337-5335 today or fax your Purchase Order to 888-353-2900!

Benchmark-Only Licensing

2008-03-31T05:34:00.001-07:00

We are now offering special BENCHMARK-ONLY LICENSING of MySatori™ TAKS titles. Up to four times per school year, you can tell us when you want to administer an online, simulated TAKS test, and we will set it all up for you! Detailed reports will tell you how your students performed as a whole and at the Expectation, Objective, and Question level.

Purchase by April 30 and get 15 months* for the price of 12! Just $1000 for Benchmark Tests covering every subject and grade at your campus! Call 800-337-5335 today!

Celebrate our 15th Year with 15% Off!

2008-03-31T05:33:00.000-07:00

Offer Expires April 15, 2008

MySatori™ for TAKS is an innovative web-based program designed to prepare all of your students for TAKS. It is so easy to get started and put your kids on the path to success because there is no installation and minimal setup—and students and teachers can access the program anywhere they have an Internet connection! MySatori™ for TAKS includes everything you need, and now you can save 15% through April 15, 2008!

Please call us at 800-337-5335 if you have any questions at all about MySatori™ or this offer. We will be happy to assist you!

Get everything you want this holiday season!

2007-12-03T11:05:00.000-08:00

Contact us and request a custom quote for the MySatori™ titles you want. If we receive your purchase order by 12/31/07 and you mention this offer, you will be given free access to ALL of our TAKS titles for up to 4 months!

• Orders over $1000 get bonus seats through 01/15/08.
• Orders over $2000 get bonus seats through 02/15/08.
• Orders over $4000 get bonus seats through 04/15/08.

This offer is valid until December 31, 2007, and is only applicable to campus-level orders. The sooner you order, the longer you will get to use your bonus subscription seats!

Five Holiday Gifts with a Brainy Twist

2007-11-28T11:13:00.000-08:00

Handmade holiday gifts come straight from the heart, and can provide a lot of learning along the way!

Make Christmas ornaments with shrinkable plastic. Predict how small they will shrink, calculate the percentage of shrinkage, and estimate how big you need to draw an ornament to get a particular size after shrinking.

Soy candles are an inexpensive and easy gift to make, and invite discussion of boiling temperatures, melting, and the environment (as soy candles are eco-friendly, too).

Bake pumpkin, apple, or other breads. Make double or triple batches of dough and calculate how to adjust the measurements.

Older kids can write a book, short story, or collection of poems. Encourage them to write a rough draft, check their spelling and punctuation, and then create a final copy.

Let kids write, direct, and perform a holiday greeting or an entire production. Capture it on video and share over the Internet or on CDs or DVDs.

Exciting Ways to Use Technology in the Classroom

2007-10-30T11:17:00.000-07:00

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

2007-10-30T11:07:00.000-07:00

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

2007-10-02T11:10:00.000-07:00

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

New in MySatori!

2007-10-02T10:55:00.000-07:00

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™!

Ten Ways to Teach Across the Curriculum

2007-09-18T11:19:00.000-07:00

Ask students to answer math problems by writing a paragraph explaining how they got their answer and how they might use this type of math problem in a real-world situation.

Encourage students to practice reading comprehension exercises on passages that cover science and social studies topics.

Take situations that present themselves in a fictional reading passage and ask students to solve the problem mathematically.

Request that students create illustrations, shadowboxes, or other creative pieces to express their understanding of scientific or mathematical processes.

Add depth to Social Studies topics by having students read biographies of famous figures in American history.

Games in P. E. can incorporate mathematical concepts, such as creating tables that show the speeds of different students or calculating the probabilities of different outcomes.

Discuss how scientific inventions and discoveries altered American history, such as the invention of the wireless telegraph and its impact on WWI.

Study the animals and plants featured in fictional reading, find the settings in the book on a map, and discuss what was happening in the country and world during the time that book was written.

Have a trivia relay - students break up into racing teams, and must answer questions from various areas of study before they can pass the baton.

Be creative! Listen to what your students are interested in and find ways to explore those topics in any curriculum.

September 30 Deadline to Renew Lapsed Licenses!

2007-09-14T10:54:00.000-07:00

Please remember that if your software product licenses have lapsed, you have until September 30th to renew them and transition to MySatori™. This offer will not be extended or renewed in the future, so please call us ASAP at 1-800-337-5335 if you are a Sleek Corporation customer who owns Incredible Tutor™ (even if you are not currently using the program).

Ten Ways to Motivate Students This Year

2007-09-08T11:27:00.000-07:00

Kick off the school year by giving positive feedback for small achievements. This helps students believe they can succeed. You can then gradually increase difficulty as the year progresses.

Make sure the tasks assigned to each student are achievable, but challenging enough to give them a sense of accomplishment.

Keep the atmosphere of your classroom open and positive—focus more on reward than punishment.

Make students active participants in learning—instead of lecturing, ask questions and encourage projects that help them learn the answers themselves.

Be clear about what students will need to do to succeed—students are more likely to meet expectations if they know exactly what they are.

Instead of causing students to compete, let them work in groups to motivate each other.

Give students some choices about what will be done in class.

Give immediate and constant feedback. Return papers promptly, and praise students publicly to give them a sense of pride.

Let students help choose their goals and the rewards for achieving them.

Visit the MySatori™ gift shop for lots of fun items that can be used to reward students for success as they prepare for TAKS!

2007-09-06T09:08:00.000-07:00

Sleek Corporation's Warm Fuzzy Friends greet students with a cheer, a smile, and a pat on the back as they work in MySatori™. These fun, animated creatures help motivate students to achieve!

Now these motivating friends leap off the screen and into the real world on tee shirts, sweatshirts, buttons, and magnets in our new MySatori™ gift shop!

Outfit your staff in MySatori™ tees to kick off your TAKS program, encourage students with buttons and magnets to remind them of their success, and/or reward your most-improved kids with fun sweatshirts!

Welcome Back!

2007-09-05T08:53:00.000-07:00

Kick off your new school year with the best online TAKS program available!

MySatori™ is a web-based learning environment, created to bring you a complete TAKS solution—all content was written with the TEA TEKS statements as its foundation, and complete coverage of every TEKS assessed by the TAKS is included. All questions and passages are in TAKS format to reduce students’ test anxiety.

MySatori™ includes:
• Access via the Internet at school or at home
• Practice tests and individualized instruction
• Lessons for every topic
• Randomized questions and answer choices
• Detailed reports of student progress and daily grading
• Easy creation of activities and assignments

Attend a free, online webcast to learn more about MySatori™! Click here to RSVP.

MySatori™ Select Network Program

2007-06-25T11:27:00.000-07:00

Once-in-a-lifetime savings if you are approved to join our Select Network Program!

We are seeking schools and districts to participate in our MySatori™ Select Network Program. We will equip this group with complete TAKS solutions for their campus at an extraordinarily low cost. Each campus will receive 50 seats of every subject for every grade applicable to the campus and 10 seats of every off-grade-level title.

Select Network members will be requested to give us additional feedback a few times a year on our technology and title offerings.

We want our Select Schools and Districts to be ready to hit the ground running when schools starts, so time is very limited.

Save up to 20% on MySatori™ Online TAKS Test Practice Solutions

2007-06-22T11:29:00.000-07:00

Save 20% when you place your order by June 30, 2007.

OR

Save 15% when you reserve your fall order with a custom quote by June 30, 2007.

Not enough money left in the budget?
Ask us about our financing and deferred billing options so that you can take advantage of these offers.

Please reference the code SAVE0607. Call us at 1-800-337-5335 to request your quote. We’ll be happy to answer any questions!

MySatori™ for Online TAKS Test Practice

2007-06-21T11:26:00.000-07:00

MySatori™ for Online TAKS Test Practice is completely Web-Based, so teachers, administrators, and students can use the program at school, at home, and anywhere with an Internet connection!

MySatori™ TAKS titles cover all assessed TEKS and all assessed TAKS Objectives with completely TAKS-formatted content. Lessons and immediate feedback make this an excellent tutorial tool to build students' skills before the test. Detailed reporting means that teachers, administrators, and parents can keep close tabs on how students are progressing and diagnose areas where single students or any population of students needs additional help.

MySatori™ for Online TAKS Test Practice is available for the following titles:

We are currently accepting RSVPs for free on-line webcasts presented by Sleek Corporation representatives. See the program in action, learn about its many unique features, and have all of your questions answered. Click here to see available dates and RSVP.