American Government

Mike F, Alice and Viv
I hope you are all well and enjoying all the rain!
If you get a chance please look at the wiki under American Gov't and you will see a site I added which I looked at for a long time and felt was very helpful. I also created a power point challenge from this site but may need help from you Mike to get it linked to my page when we get back to school. The pwr pt focuses on short answer NYS test questions. In August, I am going to concentrate on the constructed response and DBQ questions.

Best to everyone
Mike P

Working, working working...

Been working for a little over 2 hours-I have been able to do research for the math and social studies pages. I got some great sites that I want to spend some time reviewing. Maybe I'll share them with you Mike F. for you to take a peek at.

Trying to recover from MONSTER hail storm yesterday that took out the electricity (and trees) in the neighborhood. Got power back yesterday only to have "one of my phases be out" this afternoon (whatever that means) translated only half of my house has power. No well (water) so trying to conserve water so the horses have water for the next 24 hours (they drink a lot). No showers today(PU), but it gives me time to do some research (thank goodness the computer is working!)

Fun stuff! Talk to you soon. Viv

July work

Today I spent 2 hours reviewing web sites and updating the wiki. Hope everyone is having a good summer. Want to see some Italy pictures or baseball pictures in the blog.

Weather in Alaska continues to be beautiful. Am running in a 16 mile trail race on Sunday. Hope there is no smoke.

July work

Mike F, Alice and Vivian
I have been focusing on The American Revolution and American Government information and activity sites since I have been back from Italy. It was nice seeing Vivian there. It is always a lot of information we have to introduce and review prior to the DBQ's. I have been trying to put together the constructed response questions to help with the writing tasks. Last night I found a number of good document sites that I will share. We can build many questions from these sites. I hope all are well. Hours logged so far 4 1/2.
Mike P

Hello,
This week I spent 4 hours researching math sites that would be beneficial to assisting students to prepare for the state test. NYS is extending our time to prepare for the test and I am sure there will be a lot more material that we will need to cover. The test will now be in May, so I am trying to include topics that extend past the pre-March materials.
Hope everyone is doing well!
Alice

I'm back and working.

Hey guys!
Back from Italy- was incredible! Who do I see in the Vatican Museum, but Mike Pisano and family! Also saw Bernie Williams and family on plane to and from Italy- Bernie and I are like this.... we always vacation together. I used to vacation with Paul O'Neil but...

Been working on the wiki for about 2 hours- added a page and a few websites for games and practice tests. How do you add the media to the games page? I know I did this before, but can't seem to remember how- hmmm? Jetlag?

Talk to you soon,
Viv

Math sites

Today I worked 2 hours on the wiki site. Alice has suggested some sites which I posted on the math page. I also checked over and reviewed some of the social studies pages and contacted team members via email.

If you have suggested sites to post, please either post them yourself or send them to me. We need to review and check each link in the wiki for accuracy, so that might take some time.

Below: Wife and neighbor seeking support after 5K run in Fairbanks on July 4.