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The Arts
By Sally Simon It all started with a patch. The patch was Cathy Walter’s Target® Iditarod 2009 Teacher on the Trail™ patch. It was sitting on my desk at school after I returned from the Winter Teacher’s Conference in Anchorage. A second grade student saw it and asked about it. I explained the tradition started …
Join us for an Iditarod Art Exhibit! Create an art project. Take digital images of the project and email the image. The art work will be a part of our Virtual Art Show! Get out your sketch pad, your markers, paint, crayons, or chalk. Sculpt, create, build, and design. It’s time for you to get …
These are the sculpture that my Art Foundations students created. The sculpture was created using some Saran Wrap and Scotch Plastic Packing Tape. Extra support was added with the help of plastic drinking straws and aluminum wire, the dogs eyes are blue glass beads and the gangline was made with strings of Christmas tree lights …
The Words to the Song Hobo Jim’s: I did, I did, I did the Iditarod Trail (Iditarod Trail Song) Away up in Alaska The state that stands alone There’s a dog race run from Anchorage into Nome And it’s a grueling race with a lightning pace Where chilly winds do wail. Beneath the northern lights, …
This Reader’s Theater was developed based on the book, Where’s the Boss, by Lois Harter. It can be used with any grade level and has many times been performed on stage by many classrooms. Click here to download the script. Crystal and Toby brought the team to a stop. Both leaders looked over their shoulder’s, …
The champions of the Iditarod are true icons. They embody the enormous accomplishment that we aspire to within our own individual passions. We look at them and we see success. Although these amazing examples inspire us, we often feel very small around them, as though we could never do what they do because, after all, …
Temperature in Wasilla, late morning, 20°F, little wind Teachers want to know what works in the classroom to facilitate student learning and to achieve growth in their learning. The research-based document,What Works in Classroom Instruction by Robert Marzano, Barbara Gaddy, and Ceri Dean (http://www.leigh.cuhsd.org/teachers/pdf/Marzano_Strategies.pdf), is a good resource which explains the research behind classroom strategies and …
In my classroom, our study of poetry falls at the end of March. To ease the transition from the Iditarod and Alaska to poetry, I start with The Cremation of Sam McGee by Robert Service. “There are strange things done in the midnight sun/By the men who moil for gold; The Arctic trails have their secret …
It’s after Labor Day and we’re all back in school. I hope you’ve found ways to use the clipart and bookmarks in your classrooms or you have plans to use them during the year. I‘ve had another remarkable Iditarod experience since school began that I’ll share with you. About two weeks ago, my classroom phone rang, and the caller …