Storytelling Contest Final Week / Thursday Family Night and discover the results of the first Ask-a-Scientist live chat event

Honored Ancestor and Halloween Storytelling Contest

Each year we set October aside for a time to Honor our Ancestors by writing short biographies about someone in our Family's history who accomplished something unusual or remarkable - or - the biography of someone from history that lead a life respected by a student. Some schools celebrate Halloween and also have the option to submit fun or spooky ghost stories (nothing too ghoulish or gruesome please). To post your Storytelling entries, go to the FIELD REPORTS section and enter Campwide, October 1-31. Winners of the Best Ancestor Story and Best Ghost Story will win learning materials that will be shipped to your classroom.

Ask-a-Scientist Results

Learn real world, fascinating facts from Dr. Johnson, our resident Anthropologist who specializes in California Indians.

See the chat transcript at http://www.rain.org/chats/campwidetrail20031023.html

October's Fun - our First Family Night of the School Year

Share Ancestor Stories - tell a little Family History - at our online October 30th Family Night. Great for Homeschoolers too! From your home computers - or classrooms if able to open for an on campus Family Night - join us for a storytelling 'round the Camp Internet electronic campfire. The Family Invitation for printing is in the Teacher's Web and you can add any special instruction to the bottom of the document before printing. Join us online between 5-9pm PST in the FIELD REPORTS Family Room to read and share! (We suggest having students or families write their biographies in advance, and then post them as a paste from a word document during the session.) Teachers and their own families are welcome to participate too.

Other News

To view and print the Fall Newsletter (color would be best), go to:

http://www.campinternet.net/pdfs/fall03compass.pdf

Weekly Tip - Post Your First Short Field Report and DO a DIG!

We continue to welcome each classroom to post its 'SCHOOL HELLO' in your track's Field Report Room - everyone wants to see who else is online in the program so please do introduce yourselves - where is your school ? how many students? We all want to hear from you!

And please visit the Internet Dig for your track and get students reading / researching / writing on challenging topics any day of the week.