Welcome to the 2008 eIditarod Project!
This is our blog where we can introducee ourselves to everyone else in the project!
Click on "Comments" below to post your introduction and include interesting information about the state you hail from, the grade(s) you teach and your interests in the Iditarod race!
Veteran teachers of the project - feel free to share favorite experiences you've had from past years following the race!
Be sure you include at least your first name or your last name at the end of your post so we'll get to know you!
Let's mush!
Click on "Comments" below to post your introduction and include interesting information about the state you hail from, the grade(s) you teach and your interests in the Iditarod race!
Veteran teachers of the project - feel free to share favorite experiences you've had from past years following the race!
Be sure you include at least your first name or your last name at the end of your post so we'll get to know you!
Let's mush!
posted by Walter at 9:18 AM
96 Comments:
We're the Higgins family from Salt Lake City. This is our fifth year following the Iditarod. Our 9 and 8 year olds follow the race and do the activities after school, and the race will be a big part of our homeschooling for our 7 and 3 year olds this year.
Hi there!
We're a homeschooling family from the Tampa, FL area. My boys are 10, 8, & 7. This is the first time we've participated in this project, though I've followed the Iditarod for years. I can't wait!
Lisa
Hi,
Karen with Kayla, 3rd grade homeschooler, here in Georgia. Tad warm at the moment- send us some snow, please.
This is our second year but we really just followed the race last year. That was exciting. We are hoping to be more active in the projects that were listed.
We just found out that our grandson from TX has an Uncle in Alaska - very much involved with all this. Fun to find out how small this big world really is. I now have 2 relatives that live in Alaska. :)
Happy Mushing to you all- Karen
Hi! We are a homeschooling family from Michigan. My children are 15, 13, 7 & 3. I only homeschool the two younger children. We followed the race last year and my son fell in love with it! While doing research for this we found out we have cousins that live in Alaska! How cool! Last year our musher did very well and now my son wants to pick the same one - it'll be hard to convince him to choose another musher! Have FUN!!!!
Cathy Caputo
Hello, we are a homeschooling family from Arizona. This is our 3rd year following the Iditarod. We look forward to this race every year and have a lot of fun with it while we learn.
Linda
Brittany (4th grade)
Jonathan (3rd grade)
We followed the same musher for 4 years. (We followed the one veteran, plus a rookie every year). He's now taking a couple of years away from the race, so we'll be picking a new veteran to follow, but it can be interesting following the same musher and seeing how that year's training, race conditions, etc. affect that team's performance.
Hi! We are a homeschooling family stationed in Va Bch, VA, but will move before we finish this race! We have two boys, 8 and 6 and two girls, 4 and 1. We were sent this project through a local group and my kids LOVE the story of Balto. That was all the motivation they needed, so here we are.
First timers and very excited,
Amy (Mom to Logan, Cole, Lillie, and Caley)
We are a homeschool family in St. Paul, Minnesota! This is our first year. Emma says, "I love dogs so I'm happy to study them. And I especially love Huskies! "
Greetings!
We are a home based learning, family of five, from Victoria, BC in Canada. My children are 12, 9 and 8 and this is our first year with this exciting project!
We are all looking forward to participating in this project and are very thankful to have found it.
Michelle
Hi! We are a home school family in Virginia Beach, VA! I have two daughters, 12 years, and 4 years and one strapping young man the age of 8. We are all very excited to be involved in this race for the first time! We can't wait to get going!
Alli
Hey there! More homeschoolers here, from the Hampton Roads area of Virginia. We've got 3 kids, DS7, DD4, and DS3. This is our first year with the race, so this should be fun.
Lorraine aka thekytikat
We're a home school family from Ontario, Canada. This is our first year participating in the eIditarod.
Hello!
Another homeschooling family here:-) We are in SW Florida and just had a few days of cool weather - I think that was winter.
My girls are 9 & 6. This will be our first year to participate in this project, but it sounds like lots of fun. We are on our way to the library this afternoon to checkout Balto. Any tips from veterans will be appreciated.
:-) Kristi O.
Hi!
We are a homeschooling family from sunny South Carolina. My kids are 9, 8 & 6. This will be our first year following the race. We are very excited to get started.
Chrissy
We're another homeschool family from VA Beach. This is our first time following the race. Our school aged children are excited to get started. I'm nervous about not knowing what to do and how to make the projects interesting for them.
-Melisa (Sons 10, 8, 2 and Daughter 8 months)
Wow! Lots of other homeschoolers! We are a homeschool family from Ohio. Our 9 year old daughter is looking forward to the race. We will be getting a husky pup in the coming months and are so excited to see our favorite breed in action!
Hello to all,
Homeschoolers from Portland, OR here! This is our first year participating. My husband used to raise Huskies, including his best friend "Try" who actually rescued him from a blizzard.
I teach grades 3 and 6 (when we are actually "home"), and enjoy staying active in the wonderful homeschool communities around town.
Dad, mom, son (11) and daughter (9) are looking forward to this adventure!
Jana Jennings
Hi There!
We're also a homeschool family. This is our first year following the race. I hope my children will come to love this and keep doing every year as long as they live. We are really excited about learning about the process and history of the race. We will also learn more about Alaska this way. Can't wait for the race to begin.
Hi everyone. As I was reading down through all of the comments I can not believe how many homeschoolers there are.
We are also a homeschooling family. We are from Michigan. The last few days has been in the 60's. That is unbelievable for us. My children, son age 7 and daughter age 2 will be following the race again this year. My son loved it last year. There is a lapbook project on the Iditarod at www.homeschoolingestore.com. It is great. We had a lot of fun with it last year. Have fun this year.
Christina (Mom of Joshua and Katlyn)
I am sorry that address is www.homeschoolestore.com
Iditarod Lapbook Project.
Christina
We're the Alvarez family homeschoolers, ( 4th, 7th grades) currently stationed in Ca, originally from Tampa Fl.We have also lived in Alaska with many friends still there.This is our first year following the race and we are very excited.
Hi Everyone,
We are also a homeschooling family from Michigan. My girls are 9, 7, 6 and one boy 2. This is oour second year following the race and I think I love it more that my kids do. (if that is possible) We are again looking forward to following a musher and doing all the projets.
Deb
Howdy! We are the Balasubramanians from Cedar Creek, TX. This is our 3rd year following the race. My 3 boys (12, 6 and 4) wanted to stay connected to the 'cold, snow and dogs' after moving from Delaware and this is a great way to do that without the shoveling...snow that is. :-) We are looking forward to this season. Thanks Walter, for keeping a good thing going!
3Balaboyz
Hello from Pecos in northern New Mexico. We are currently experiencing a winter storm with a foot of snow already; HIKE! My daughter is a home learner who turned 10 today and this will be her fourth year following the race. She wants to follow the same musher each year and that has been great fun watching the changes through out the years. This is the first time we will be involved in this project and we are looking forward to the new experience.
Happy trails,
Linda
Hello,
We are a homeschooling family from Hudson Valley New York. My sons are 6 and 2 (the youngest loves the dogs!). This is our first year and we are looking forward to it!
Natalie
Hi everyone!
We are also a homeschool family and from Virginia Beach, VA (seems to be a lot of us on here).
We have enjoyed watching movies on the elditarod and other dog-sledding races. This is the first time I have heard of actually following the race as a school project. So, this will be our first year participating and we are really excited about joining in on this adventure.
Susan
It looks like I am in the minority on the list as I am a public school teacher in southeastern Missouri. I have a group of 21 fourth graders.
Donna
We are the Wilsey family from Wisconsin and our 2 kids are excited for the race to begin. My son is 13 and my daughter is 8.
I am Erinn and I am in the minority as well. I teach in a public school, 3rd graders. This is the 2nd year I have done the race with my class. Last year's class loved it and this class is just as excited. We have been reading Balto this week and they are fascinated with his story. On another note - I personally was homeschooled for high school and loved it! I wish there had been stuff like this when I was going thru.
Enjoy everyone!
Hi all!
I'm a 4th grade teacher in Southwestern Colorado. This will be our first year following the Iditarod, and the kids are excited! The previous teacher (3 years ago) used to follow it every year, but did not use any of this fabulous technology with the kids. I'd love to hear of any tried-and-true projects or activities ... there's so much out there!
Michelle
We're the Gowan family, a homeschooling family from central Kentucky. This is our first year following the Iditarod. I have three boys and the oldest two LOVE animals and racing and while they don't know much about this particular race, I thought this was a great way to introduce it to them (as well as a study of Alaska!)
We're looking forward to it! Thanks so much for organizing!
Hi!
We are a homeschooling family from the small town of Callicoon, NY. We have a 2 yr. old son and a 6 yr. old daughter. We just finished reading the short story of Balto in "Five True Dog Stories," by Margaret Davidson and luckily found this project to go along with it.
My uncle visited Alaska last year and watched the start of the race and I own and used to fly an Alaskan bush plane (before the kids came along and I had more time on my hands) called an Arctic Tern, out of our family airstrip in upstate NY. A friend who worked in Alaska as a bush pilot, flew the plane down from Ankorage for me, as I was a newly licensed pilot at the time with only 100 hours of flying time under my belt. So these have been my only connections with the beautiful state of Alaska so far, but we look forward to more through this project. : ) Happy Winter Everyone! Sondra B.
Great to see some other public school teachers here! This is my first time folowing the Iditarod, with 10 and 11 year olds in a country town in Western Australia. It is currently 40 degrees and windy outside, so thinking about very cold conditions is a bit difficult. I'm looking forward to using the daily updates and musher blogs.
Sue
Hello Everyone!
I am a Massachusetts public school teacher with four 8th grade classes that will be following the race. This is my third year doing this project and can't wait to get started. The students love learning about the race, making the wall map, and get so excited with the blogs. We are looking forward to it.
Have fun!
Scott
I am a 4th grade public school teacher in southeast Missouri. This is my second year to participate in the project. Last year's students picked Lance Mackey as their musher...and he won! Might be hard to top that but we're going to try!
Greetings! We are the Moreno family from Mexico (the country not the state) and this is our first year to follow the race. My 12 year old son is excited and looking forward to it. The only place that we have snow here in on top of the nearby volcano, Popocatepetl.
CHRISTINE
Hello all,
I am a 5th & 6th grade computer teacher in southwest Missouri. It looks like we have several teachers from our great state. I have done this project in the past with my fourth grade class. Last year I did the project with all 500 or so of my 5th & 6th graders. (We did not get signed up in time, so we did our own version). This year I will be doing this project with approximately 300 5th graders. The kids love the project. Last year we made musher trading cards and Power Points on the computer. For you public school teachers out there, you can get a free poster from Cabela's
http://www.cabelasiditarod.com/poster_contact.html
but hurry, they only give away a total of 6000. Also, I think they will have a downloadable version available for others.
Kim
We are yet another homeschooling family from Chesterland, Ohio. This is our second year following the Iditarod with our now 5 1/2 year old twins and our 2 1/2 year old. The twins chose different mushers last year so they could "race" each other. The unfortunate animal abuse stuff last year provided a great opportunity to learn about caring for animals, laws that protect people and animals etc... For those of you with little kids..the Alaskan map is an easy project to make!We also watched the movie Balto alot!I'm very excited to connect with all of these homeschoolers! susan
We are the Dye Family from Corvallis, OR. We followed last year, but will do much more this year. The boys (6 and 4) are already so excited, we had to start yesterday! We made a relief map of AK with cookie dough, chocolate chips, and any other candy they could find. We traced the trail with icing and used gumdrops with toothpicks and flags to mark the checkpoints. They LOVED it! And it made for a very tasty dessert for all of us to enjoy!
2 great books we read last year were: Winterdance by Gary Paulson, which needed to be edited for younger kids but had fantastic stories, and No End In Sight: My Life as a Blind Iditarod Racer by Rachael Scdoris. Very interesting! We look forward to hearing all your great ideas as well! Thanks Walter for all your hard work!
Hi, We are the 5th grade class of the New England Kurn Hattin Homes, a private residential school-home for students who cannot live at home. We have 105 students grades 1-8 and are located in the town of Westminster, Vermont, home of the 14th star on Old Glory. This is our first year participating in the race. We are all excited.
We're a homeschooling family from Suffolk, VA. My 8 year old son and 5 year old daughter LOVE ANIMALS and SNOW. We are all very excited to be a part of this for the first time. Today it is 70 degrees outside so we'll be looking forward to colder weather as the race begins.
Ed Tech Diva here! A K-4 Technology Facilitator in New York. I participated with my 2nd grade classes (they STILL talk about that as being their favorite unit EVER!) and brought it up to the middle school with me when I 'graduated' to 5th/6th grade. I'm back in the elementary, facilitating technology (my passion) and am looking forward to participating in this FABULOUS project. Thanks Walter for doing such a great job!
Hello everyone. We are a homeschool family from Ohio. My girls are 4 (almost 5) and 9 years old. This will be our first year participating in this project and my kids are excited. We are currently doing a animals notebook for our science and are also doing a study on Alaska during this project as well. We plan on creating a scrapbooking journal to go along with what we are doing with the project.
Hi!
We are a homeschooling family from Northeast Ohio. My daughter is 6 and my son is 5. This is our first year as well. We have already done some reading and are ready to dive in. I feel priviledged to have such a great resource available.
Jenni P.
Akron, Ohio
We are the Nelson Home Schooling Family. We live in Littleton, CO. Our three daughters 10,8 and 4 have followed the race on this project for 3 years.
We have 2 Huskies of our own. One too old to pull a sled and one too fast to pull it safely. :) The girls tried to convince Dad to adopt one of Dee Dee's pups last year but he thought it might have a bit too much energy for them!
Mush On!
Carrie Nelson
I teach 5th grade at Mooresville Intermediate School in Mooresville, NC. My classes have been following the Iditarod for the last 4 years. Each year I learn more and more about thsi race. This past Fall we had a musher come and speak to our entire 5th grade. It was one of the most entertaining assemblies we have had. I hope to get him to come again for next year's 5th graders. This is quite an adventure!
I am a K-5 self contained Sp Ed teacher in Waco, TX. This will be the firat time that we have followed the Iditarod in years! My late MIL introduced me to this race in 1998.
Cat
Hi! Another homeschooling family here from Michigan! My girls are 9, 2, and I have a baby boy who is 4 months. We've informally have followed the Iditarod but this year plan on making a unit study out of this great event!
Looking forward to following the race with fellow educators!
Christine
Hi!
My name is Angela and I'm a special education teacher north of Chicago in Illinois. My students are fourth and fifth graders. This is my first year in this project and I look forward to it.
Angela
We are a home educating family in Iowa with bridges to each IL and WI in our fair city. While we have home educated for 13 school years I only have two home full time, now and one part time. I followed the race with some loom knitters a couple of years ago, yet not since. Of our 5 sons the 2-3 that are home are 14 5/6, 11 11/12, and 9. The older one is part time at the local government school, so he may not join us on this. He has 13 subjects between booth high schools and not enough day.
I hope I am not in over my head by joining in on this. I go by Shalifa (my Arabian Horse, RIP), Ang W. or Angela. I was told about this though some local home educators.
We are the Mooneyham family from central Ohio. We're a homeschooling family that has done Iditarod lessons before but have never participated in something like this. The kids are excited. They are 14 and 8 (with a two year old in tow too).
We enjoy anything to do with snow and winter. It's only snowed a bit this season so far but we are looking forward to more soon. We love adventure so the Iditarod is perfect. Someday we'd like to actually be there in person cheering on the mushers.
Blessings,
Katina Mooneyham
Hi Walter and everyone,
I a classroom teacher in St. Augustine, Florida. I've been following the Iditarod for several years. My students are looking forward to another exciting year. This very morning one of my past students said, "Isn't time for the Iditarod?" Very soon! She was very pleased!!! My classes this year are 6-7th and 10th. Can't wait to get started!!
We are a homeschooling family. I homeschool our son 12 and we have been following the Iditarod for three years now. Our son loves information about Alaska and the dogs and because of that love he always ask to follow this race since we started doing it. We do some of the extra actities posted and some times we add some of our own. We read a lot of books on the history of Alaska and the history of the Iditarod between now and the start of the race. We are looking forward to it again this year. My son likes to follow two mushers one male and one female and both have to be from Alaska that is how he likes to choose his mushers. We can't wait for the start of the race!
The Mercado Family from St. Petersburg, FL
Hi everyone,
This is my first year following the Iditarod with my middle school students. I can't wait for the fun to start!
We are a homeschooling family in Minneapolis, Minnesota. We have four children, ages 12 (almost 13!),10, 8 and 3. This is our first time following the race and we are doing it mainly for my 10 year old daughter who loves dogs and aspires to be a vet someday. We are very excited to learn more about the Eiditarod!
Annemarie in Minnesota
Hello from rural Indiana!
We are the Rich Hearts Homeschool with 5 students ages 13, 10, 6, 4, & 1. We have followed the race before and enjoyed it.
Trish
Hello Everyone!
I'm a computer technology coordinator in Ojai, California, and we did the Eiditarod in 2003 and I am back with our entire school (16 classes) to take part once again. Many thanks to Walter for continuing his legacy of excellent online projects! Surfaquarium, you rock!
Cheers,
Maggie
Oh...forgot...Maggie here in Ojai, CA...my classes are k-6... my email is mcerminaro@ojai.k12.ca.us
Cheers
We are the Rumpca & Shafer families in Eagle Point Oregon. This is our 2nd year following the Iditarod. The kids are so excited! We have 5 in our home school, 1 boy (10) and 4 girls (8, 7,7 & 2)!
Hello-
We're a homeschooling family from Tennessee. My two girls (6th and 3rd grade) will be participating for the first time. We're excited to join and look forward to the coming race!
Angie
Hi,
My name is Anna Baralt, and I am an Instructional Technologist at Shorecrest Preparatory School in St. Petersburg, FL. I will be following the Iditarod with 4 classes of 3rd graders along with their teachers. While I have followed other "real time" adventures with my students such as the Velux 5 Oceans and Barcelona World Race, this is my first Iditarod. I look forward to learning along with my students. I will also look to all the experts in the group for ideas and advice.
Hi, I am a homeschooling mom of two on Vancouver Island, B.C., Canada. This is our first time with this project and we are looking forward to a great learning experience. If I can ever get the wall map directions to work.
Colleen
We are a homeschooling family from Wyoming. We have a son doing kindergarten right now and are excited to learn about the Iditarod together for the first time.
Krista
Hello everyone,
We're another homeschooling family in Idaho. My children are 9 and 10 years old. Both of our children would like to actually go see the race someday. This is our second year following the race. Last year we followed the eventual winner, Lance Mackey. This year we're planning on following him again and the two Junior Iditarod rookies. We're using our map from last year and adding more information all the time. This year we added information about the Gray Whale migration path. We're about to start an elelectronic field trip through Ball State University covering the Gray Whales so it worked well with our Iditarod unit. Happy mushing.
Kelly
Hi Everyone!
We are also a homeschooling family from Chesterfield, Virginia. We followed the Eiditarod last year and created a whole unit from everything we learned. It's probably the most fun we ever had with a unit study. I already have gotten some new ideas for this year's race.
You can search my blog for Iditarod activities that we did last year.
www.martinzoo.homeschooljournal.net
My son is really excited because in February we will get a chance to try mushing a dog sled in Maryland. We can't wait!
Walter, you've done a fabulous job. Thank you so much for all you do!
~Robin & GB
Hello! We're a homeschooling family from Minnesota, and my two boys (7 and 4) are participating in the e-iditerod for the first time! So far we've done a lot of reading about it but not much else--we're about to start our map!
I am a fourth grade teacher from Missouri and this is our fourth year doing this project. The kids really enjoy it every year.
Hello to everyone! I am a third grade teacher in the state of Missouri. There are 25 students in my class and this is our first year to participate in this project. We are very excited! My students can't wait for the race to start, although they are enjoying the lessons that are leading up to it.
Jeannie White
De Soto, MO
Hi! We are an unschooling family in Laguna Hills, CA -- about 15 minutes So. of Disneyland, 10 minutes E. of Laguna Beach, and an hour N. of San Diego!
DD Megan (14-1/2) attends 9th grade at our local public school (her choice) and dd Molly (5-3/4) is home with me! I have my teaching credential and dh David is a software/hardware engineer.
We are very excited to be joining in on the Iditarod fun for the first time! We have a snow capped mountain view from our living room, but actually live about 1-1/2 hours from snow. And since it's been quite warm lately, we may turn on the air conditioning and put on scarves to get in the mood!
We have some time restraints in the next month, so … we will be purchasing the trail map from the Iditarod store, laminating it, and using wipe on/off markers to follow the race.
If anyone lives in our area, let me know … diane@poohsweb.com!
Diane Gardner :)
Hi Everyone! I'm a fourth grade teacher at Sherrills Ford Elementary in Sherrills Ford, NC. This is my first year following the Iditarod, and we're very excited to be a part of this group.
I'm a bit overwhelmed by all the information out there, and thanks to all those sharing.
Janice
How exciting to be part of this group!
I am a homeschooling teacher who teaches at a hybrid homeschool 2 day a week program. We are participating with 11 students. 2nd - 8th grade.
We are from Georgia. (and have snow on the ground tonight! How amazing is that?!)
Donna
Hello everyone!
We're a homeschooling family in the Orlando, FL area. Besides Mom and Dad, we have an 8 year old boy and 5 year old son.
We've been following the Iditarod for years but became especially interested after meeting former musher Karen Land a few years back. Since then, we've been hooked.
We're looking forward to being a part of the project!
Tana
Hello. We are a homeschooling family from Western North Carolina, with children aged 2, 4, 6, and 12. We've been following the race for years but have never participated in this project before.Since we are moving to Fairbanks this summer I figured this was a good resource for learning more about the great state of Alaska and for helping us prepare for our move.
Theresa
We're the Williams family from Easthampton. We have a 12, 10, 8, and 3 yr old. This is our first year following the Iditarod. We'll be turning it into a unit study including weather, geography, etc. All ideas are appreciated! Thanks!
Hi-
We are a third grade class in Conover, NC. This is my first year
following the race. I am
excited to get started and try the activities. We have not started picking mushers or anything
yet, but the kids are excited to find out more.
Good luck to all
Miss Sarah in NC
Hello (waving like mad) from the UK, this is our 3rd year of following the race with this group. We are me (aged ?) & my 4 girls aged 16, 13, 11 & 7, we can't wait for the race to start
Julie
I am Jody and this is our second year following the race. I homeschool my two boys ages 7 (will be 8 in March) and one that just turned 6 this month. Look forward to the race.
Hi, we are yet another homeschooling family from Virginia. We've already learned a lot in just the short time since we've started on the project. Our 8th grader is already recommending the book Race Against Death by Seymour Reit.
Emily
This is regarding Andi in VA's comments about finding "disturbing articles on the web regarding the abuse of the dogs,both during training as well as during the race itself".
I just wanted to note that with an event such as the Iditarod, with such world wide recognition and news coverage, you have to know that if there were ANY shenanigans or problems regarding the animals, it would be WELL documented by many a reliable source.
This event affects many peoples lives in substantial ways. They rely on it not only for recreation and entertainment but many people's businesses and careers are based on it. It is so very rare that anyone who truly relies on their animals for their lively hood, transportation or in this case, even their lives, would risk being cruel or abusive to an animal.
Unfortunately, there are too many biased organizations, including the Old Network news media, trying to push their agendas and they are not concerned with hurting people, their reputations or with telling the truth. Thank you.
Leigh, homeschooling in VA
Hi everyone!
We're a homeschooling family in the city of Chicago (6 yo daughter and 7 yo son). This is our first year to follow the Iditarod. We have our map up and have been reading our way through some books we got from the library on the subject. The kids are loving it!
We are a homeschooling family from Oregon with 3 dd's (8, 10, 12). This will be our first year following the Iditarod. We're really looking forward to it.
Hi!
We are the Fifth Grade (Room 117) from Saint Eleanor School in Collegeville, PA. We have just finished our map of the Iditarod and are ready to start the selection process for our class musher. Our partner Fifth Grade class is also involved in this project and our two mushers will be competing against each other at our school. We have participated in several collaboration projects using the Internet and can't wait for the race to begin.
Hi! We are a homeschooling family from Iowa! We have a 9 year old boy and 16 month old girl. We also homeschool 2 other children 11 & 13 who are excited to about the race! This is our first year and we love hearing all your great ideas....even if it seems a bit overwhelming. God Bless
Laurie
Patrick Myers from DeSoto, Missouri
This is my second year participating in the Iditarod race. I have 5th graders coming in after school to hopefully have as good time!
We are a homeschooling family who relocated to Tri-Cities, WA, from VA, about a year ago. This coming summer we will be cruising to AK with Homeschool on the Seas, and as I was beginning to have our children do some reading to prepare, I stumbled across an article in The Old Schoolhouse magazine that listed this project.
I then realized that the race was happening in just two weeks! Eeeek! I have spent a feverish weekend putting together a great unit study. We will have to put up with mere map printouts and we missed the mail call, but otherwise, we are dropping our normal routine and plunging in.
We have two students in our homeschool, an 11yo girl and a 9yo boy. The Balto reader has long been a favorite in our home, so I think they will have a great time with this unit study. Thanks to Walter for letting me join late.
Sherrill Fink
Hello fellow e-iditarod followers,
We are from The Montessori Country School in Nobleton, Ontario
This is our first year following the race and we are very excited.
Our class is Mrs. Girimonte's Lower Elementary, levels 1, 2 and 3.
We have 15 students in our class. We hope to learn alot about the race
and have lots of fun.
Mrs. G's LEB class.
Hi! We are from Michigan. This is the third year to follow the Iditarod. I am an elementary librarian with 4th and 5th grade students. The enthusiasm grows as the race gets more intense.
Hi We're a homeschooling family from Susssex county De. This is our first time participating in the eiditarod. We are enjoying the research and making the map. Good luck to all. We have 2 11 year old boys and a 8 year old girl.
Rosemary
Hi! We're the Williams Family Homeschool, from Prince William County in Northern Virginia--seven kids, ages 11,9,7,6,4,4, and 2.5 years. This is our second year in the project (we followed unofficially last year due to moving in the middle :), and we love it.
We do math, language arts, geography and science, all while studying the Iditarod. The younger kids study the Arctic animals, plants, and Native Americans, as well as how to care for the sled dogs (and read about Balto, of course!). The older kids read more indepth, and several longer books--this year we are also actually studying the race rules more than earlier years.
The two oldest had the opportunity to participate in a Dogsledding "camp" in Maryland in January, where they learned how to care for the dogs, put on the harnesses, and ride along! They were so excited! We look forward to participating with everyone in the project again this year.
Mindy
Hi! We're the Williams Family Homeschool, from Prince William County in Northern Virginia--seven kids, ages 11,9,7,6,4,4, and 2.5 years. This is our second year in the project (we followed unofficially last year due to moving in the middle :), and we love it.
We do math, language arts, geography and science, all while studying the Iditarod. The younger kids study the Arctic animals, plants, and Native Americans, as well as how to care for the sled dogs (and read about Balto, of course!). The older kids read more indepth, and several longer books--this year we are also actually studying the race rules more than earlier years.
The two oldest had the opportunity to participate in a Dogsledding "camp" in Maryland in January, where they learned how to care for the dogs, put on the harnesses, and ride along! They were so excited! We look forward to participating with everyone in the project again this year.
Mindy
Hello!
We're a homeschooling family in Winston-Salem, NC (10 year old boy and 7 year old girl). We just heard about this and are really looking forward to participating. We're going to start working on our map this week.
Brandon & Nicole
Hi!! We are the Nowaczewski's from MI and this is our 2nd year following the race. I homeschool my 11 and 16 year old and we really enjoyed this last year and are looking forward to another great race!
We're the McMichael family from the Philadelphia PA region. Our kids are 9, 12 and 14, and this is our first year following the Iditarod! We have long been Balto fans and have visited "him" in Central Park, and when an email came through one of our homeschool groups about following this amazing race online, I couldn't pass this up. We also learned that one of the mushers is from a neighboring town, so we're anxious to see how this plays out!
Hi. We are a third grade class from Grand Rapids, Michigan. We've had a very snowy winter. Just this weekend we passed the 100 inch mark for snowfall this year. We are most interested in learning about the biomes of Alaska, recording the weather during the race, and following the mushers during this big challenge.
Mrs. A.
Hi. I am a 5th grade teacher in southern Michigan. This is our first attempt at following the Iditarod. My students are very excited to see whose musher will win.
Hi!
We are the Sipes family from Molalla, OR. We have 4 kids(19, 8, 6 and 2). My 8 and 6 year olds are so excited to include this project into are homeschooling schedule this year.
Susy
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