Campwide Briefing

February 19-25, 2002

The READING OLYMPICS are On!

Enter the Reading Olympics on Camp Internet - challenge your students to flex their brains! The entries are coming in with text and images - check out the race for the medals at: http://chat.rain.org/cgi-bin/nph-camp01-fr

Top 36 earn their class a 'Silver' Medal. Online Camp ebooks (chapters and articles) as well as hard copy books count for entries. At least one posting per class is suggested to give your students a chance to participate in the fun reading competition.

For Students This Week

Exciting Learning Adventures begin this week -

Islands launch their PIRATES exploration http://www.rain.org/campinternet/channelhistory/expedition2/pirates.html

Backcountry meets MARK TWAIN http://www.rain.org/campinternet/backcountry/humanities/twain/

Southwest discovers DINOSAURS http://www.rain.org/campinternet/southwest/dinosaurs/

And Gardens get ready to start their SEEDLINGS http://www.rain.org/global-garden/

NEXT WEEK - Camp Family Night is February 28th

All Camp classrooms and families are welcome to come learn about Amazing Women of the West. Families are asked to bring a short description of an Amazing Woman in their family history, or whom they have been honored to know, to post in celebration of Amazing Women. Bring Moms online! Encourage Fathers and Sons to share their family history with pride. Featured Open House is a Madison School and Camp Staff will be there and online. Join us ONLINE or open your doors to families !!

Print out the invitation as a pdf at: http://www.rain.org/campinternet/amazing_women_mothers_and_daughters.pdf

Or find it online as a word document at: http://www.rain.org/~camp/feb02womenshistoryfamilynight.doc

Teachers - Time to DIG the Internet

This is the month to start using the ONLINE WORKSHOP to create and Internet Dig. Go to http://chat.rain.org/cgi-bin/nph-teacherworkshop And follow the easy FOUR STEP process. Test your Dig in that private teachers-only workroom - and then - email us to reserve a day when the CAMPWIDE DIG ROOM will be opened to host and feature YOUR DIG! Your students will be thrilled to do YOUR Dig!

Teacher Training Field Reports

All Teacher Field Reports from GPS Training Days are due by the end of the month in Field Reports / Teacher Training. A make-up GPS Day is scheduled for March 16th at Descanso Gardens, La Canada. Make-up Day Three is planned for April. Workshop is located at: http://chat.rain.org/cgi-bin/nph-campteachers and final posting location for finished work is at: http://chat.rain.org/cgi-bin/nph-expedition