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Did you know that Balto currently resides in the Cleveland Museum of Natural History? After the famous Serum Run, Balto quickly achieved hero status and traveled all over North America. Eventually Balto and his teammates were sold to a vaudeville show owner in California where they were mistreated. George Kimble, a businessman from Cleveland discovered …
Your students can write nonfiction or fiction using technology. Their stories let you assess their mastery of skills such as sequencing, descriptive language, punctuation, capitalization, spelling, and at higher levels, assessment of synthesis and application skills. Digital story writing works for elementary through secondary levels, with the products reflecting the skill levels of students. This …
“… make sure you leave something (such as food) for the Old Woman when you leave. You don’t want her ghost chasing you to Nome and throwing bad luck your way.” From Don Bower’s Trail Notes http://iditarod.com/about/the-iditarod-trail/ So much of the Iditarod Trail is the history. With that history come the stories of the people …
Today my son and I introduced a whole new generation of Baltimore kids to mushing and the Iditarod at a toddler play date that our school was involved in. The kids had great fun standing on the runners of the sled, trying on the headlamp, playing with all the stuffed dogs, and yelling command to …
Just in after walking my Siberian husky and moving on to this review of Foxy’s Tale: The True Story of a Champion Alaskan Sled Dog by Ed White and Donna Freedman and illustrated by Charles Lindemuth. My husky and I didn’t walk as fast as Foxy runs in this true story of a dog and …
“Did you hear from Monica?” “Did you tell Monica about our plan yet?” “Did she see our video yet?” “Does Monica have snow yet?” It seems like a day doesn’t go by without someone in my class asking about Monica. (The Brady Bunch episode where the other two sisters complain about “Marcia, Marcia, Marcia” goes …
We have been fortunate enough to host one of the Iditarod Traveling Quilts for the first month of school. The Traveling Quilt program began when the first quilt was created in 2005 and since then has grown to 11 quilts that zig zag the world bringing the race and its ideals to more than one …
There’s nothing better than hands-on real-life experiences for learning. Thanks to musher and educator Tim Vandermeuelen, Symposium participants went to work making necklines and constructing a doghouse. Tim handed out pre-cut and marked lengths of braided nylon and the indispensible fid to everyone interested then the fun began – push the fid through the rope …
My students, maybe because they are boys, seem to gravitate towards non-fiction texts. They love to pour over the pictures and stats that fill their favorite non-fiction books. But, I have noticed that they don’t always use all of the features in the book like captions and sidebars to their advantage as readers, and they …
Ghosts in the Fog: The Untold Story of Alaska’s WWII Invasion ©2011 is the narrative nonfiction account of Japan’s invasion of the Aleutian Islands during World War II. Classified military information for years and too difficult for those who lived it to discuss, Samantha Seiple’s pen brings it all to light: the invasion and occupation …