Ongoing Invitations

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.

NEW: October Events to Prepare to Join

October holds three special events, in addition to your regular subject track activities:

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.

October’s Fun – our First Family Night of the School Year

Share Ancestor Stories – tell a little Family History– at our online October 30^th 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.)

Special Guest Chat – watch for news on who our honored Guest Scientist will be for a live Q&A session later in the month. Date and time will soon be announced.

Weekly Tip – ‘How to DIG the Internet’

Tip : If time does not allow each student to complete all Dig questions – divide questions up among the group and then once posted, have each one read their different question and answer to the room so all learn together. Also, be sure to use the stored Internet Digs in your track, available any day, any time, as student research assignments. These are accessed from the ACTIVITY link at top of your Trail Head. These provide valuable structure and guidance in using the resources.