Dear Zuma, This is Mrs. Van Egmond’s 3rd grade class at West Side Christian School in Grand Rapids, MI. We are following the Iditarod Race and we have some questions for you: How did you learn how to type? I learned to type by practice, practice, practice. How did you meet D-2? I meet fur …
Hi Zuma, We have a few questions for you, we hope you can answer them. We were wondering how long you have been reporting for the Iditarod? Do you have a favorite musher? I’ve been reporting for Iditarod for many years, now, Boys and Girls, more years than I have claws on my paws. I …
Dear Zuma, How are you? We are fine here. We are 2nd graders at the Best Elementary School in New Hampshire. We are students in Mrs. Stanley’s and Miss Whitman’s class. We are all impressed that you are able to read and type! John said that you could spell better than he could:) We loved …
Hello Boys and Girls, Wow, my friend Nigel has had quite an adventure! After spending a couple nights in the Alaska wilderness, Nigel, a sled dog from Nancy Yoshida’s team was reunited with Nancy. After a series of bad luck incidents and crashes on the Happy River Steps, and finally reaching Rainy Pass on a …
Hello Boys and Girls, As promised, I went down to the area behind the Millennium Hotel, Iditarod Race Headquarters, where the dogs returning from the trail snooze while waiting for their humans to pick them up and take them home. Snooze is right! Who wouldn’t take a long snooze when covered up in cozy blankets? …
Hello Boys and Girls, Here is an interesting question from one of the hundreds and hundreds of schools that are following the race and writing to us. It is a good question, so I wanted to answer it in an article to make sure everyone gets to know the answer. Good Morning Zuma, Here in …
Hello Boys and Girls! This is it! This is the moment we’ve been waiting for and I’m headed out the door in just a few mintutes to see the Re Start of the 2009 Iditarod. Yesterday was the Start. How much time it took for each musher to get from the starting to the banner …
Hello Boys and Girls, Wow! What interesting comments on the blog and email we got this year! We are always glad to hear from you and are now enjoying your letters and comments even more because it is so much fun to hear about the awesome projects that classrooms were involved in during the race. …
Libby Here! Lots of the email that boys and girls sent us this year asked about what the dogs wore during the race. Here is a sample of one of our letters: Dear K-9 Reporters, Our class is following the race. We saw on the Insider Video that the mushers wear winter gear that keeps …
Libby Here! Listen to this great question! “Do they ever get lost?” The Iditarod Trail is a marked trail. People on snowmobiles— or snowmachines which is what they are called in Alaska, travel the race trail before the mushers and make sure that the trail markers are in place. The markers are sticks with a …
