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Hi! I teach 1st grade at St. John the Baptist School in Green Bay, WI. I just wanted to share what we are doing for the Iditaread challenge. The Iditaread challenge was kicked off with a small banquet of dog bone shaped Scooby snacks, popcorn balls and snow cones. During the Banquet teams were announced. …
Our small North Carolina town has a strong sense of community—folks and their families have lived here for generations, and the town considers its schools, although part of a county school system, “their schools”. At the holiday season, our local museum decorates for Christmas and invites the schools to provide decorations for its many trees …
Practice identifying sentence types the Idita-way! (Worksheet and answer key can be downloaded below!) Kinds of Sentences Put the correct punctuation at the end of each sentence. Tell if the sentence is a declarative, an interrogative, an imperative, or an exclamatory sentence. 1. ____________ Dog teams pull sleds in the Iditarod 2. ____________ How many …
Enjoy this math activity article written by Annalise Lecher. We did the activity in the 4th Grade accelerated math class I teach. Students created an example of the Iditarod Trail in circular form. The picture is of the entire student body in our Central Gymnasium taken on March 20th, during our “Iditarod Central” Day! …
Educational Journalist, Joy Davis, of Indiana and her Basic Skills Class recently made support quilts for three rookie mushers- Pat Moon, Middy Johnson, and Tamara Rose. The students helped in the design work and layout. They learned about the mushers while working on the quilts. To view a larger image of the pictures, click on …
Zuma’s Paw Prints isn’t JUST reading material for your students. It is more than knowledge about Alaska and the race. The articles are content for teaching language arts and other curriculum areas. Bonnie Nizamis is an independent consultant working with schools across the country – and as she teaches teachers how to integrate technology in …
My school, Northwest Elementary in Kinston, NC, participated in the IditaRead™ for the first time this year. We challenged our 3-5th graders to see if they could read 1049 books. We started on February 22, and boy did the kids read! We had no idea that they would take to it quite like they did. We …
Our school mascot is a husky, so we thought it was an appropriate tie in with Iditarod. Students compete by grade level-6th, 7th, and 8th. We have weekly and monthly “checkpoints” where each grade is given points based on their behavior and showing their “husky pride,” 30 points for 1st, 20 for 2nd, and 10 …
I am the speech therapist for middle & high schoolers with severe disabilities. (Grades 6 – 12) My teaching area is Speech Language Pathology. Our goal is to promote communication to gain information that is motivating to our students. Most of our students are non-verbal so in order to use their communication devices they need …
My class did a modified version of Idita-Read. I copied all of the materials from the web-site for each of my students. On the first page of the packet, the students had to set goals. Our goal as a class was to read for 15 minutes everyday during Language Arts class. This could be any …