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.

How to post to the wiki

Step #1: Go to the wiki page. The link is on this blog at the right, or you can find it at the library web page. http://socialstudies5.wiki.ccsd.edu/

Step#2: Log in.

Step #3: Go to the page you want to edit, or chose "new page" at the top.

Step #4: Edit the page.

Step #5: Click save.

Is it working

Do you see me yet posted Mike?
viv

Test

Mike, Viv and Alice
I have some great ideas for this summer.
Mike

Posting Math Sites

Alice, Mike, and Vivian,
You can post and edit your sites directly on the wiki page. You can also set up new pages for your stuff. For example I will create a new page called Math Sites and you can post directly on that page.

Hey! It is all coming back to me now...I think! Testing. Testing.

Test

Hi Team!
Just testing. Looking forward to creating another great project with you guys!
Alice O'Hara

Summer plan

It's that time of year again! Our team needs to set up and plan for our project this summer. Here is our project description:

Our team has created and maintained a web page and wiki for
students, parents, and teachers to use in preparation for the 5th
grade social studies assessment. This year we plan to update the
page and expand its content to include mathmatics review. Our goal
is for all district staff to be able review and share ideas to improve
student performance.

The first step we need to take is to check in on both the blog and the wiki pages.

Three branches of government

Mike
I think I figured out what I did wrong.
I spent a lot of time scrutinizing the branches of government sites for our students. This one is great and I would like to add to our page. By the way, I saw a number of these facts we covered together on Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader. Hope the kids were watching!
Look forward to seeing you.
Mike

Mimke
Why did this post on this blog, can you delete?
mike

Baseball 09

Last season the Rams finished at exactly .500 and lost to John Jay Cross River in an exciting and close ballgame on the road. Many seniors have graduated and this leaves the Rams with a number of open positions to fill. Start working hard now because many players that are competing to make the team will find themselves challenged. With one year and a lot of learning under my belt. Be ready to play not talk!!
Coach Pisano

August meeting

I have posted the agenda and some of our tasks for August 10 on the wiki. Alice, it's great to see you and the new baby are doing well. Alice has already checked in as of August 6. I posted instructions on how to put a PowerPoint into a wiki, so Alice will be able to post her work directly on the wiki.

We are having a cold, rainy summer here in Alaska. At least 10 degrees colder than normal. The other day Cathy saw a moose in front of our house. I think he was trying to get near our wood stove to get warm!

Last post in July

I just finished my last post in the month of July on the wiki. It appears that everyone has checked in and produced work on the wiki, except that I have not heard from Alice. Has anyone heard from her? Please let me know?

Improving Site

Here's a way to make the wiki site look a little better and to display the front page of a web site you are linking to:
You can display the web pge you are linking to by entering a widget with a special code between these brackets <>
iframe src="http://www.archives.gov/nae/" frameborder="0" height="390" scrolling="no" width="600">