Rollcall of the 2009 eIditarod Project
This is our blog where we can introduce 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!
Check back over the next three weeks to track the states represented by classes in this year's project!
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. Please do not include street addresses or phone numbers.
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!
Check back over the next three weeks to track the states represented by classes in this year's project!
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. Please do not include street addresses or phone numbers.
Let's mush!
posted by Walter at 4:46 PM
67 Comments:
We are from Michigan where we received an entire 15 hours of temps. over 32 for the entire month of January and today it was 52 !!!
We homeschool a daughter of Kindergarten age and a 2 1/2 year old son who likes to keep up with his sister.
Our daughter LOVED the Iditarod and Lance Mackey last year and we learned A LOT. We have our map ready and she already picked Lance again this year. This is great fun and so much to learn.
Carla Rabey
Our current home is in Kansas, though "home" is an unknown when you are a military family. I am homeschooling our two sons, age 8 and 6 for the first time. Combine the fact that both of my boys are competetive and true animal lovers and it was a curricular match made in heaven to undertake a unit on the Iditarod.
We finished reading Gary Paulsen's "Puppies, Dogs, and Blue Northers" about Paulsen's favorite lead dog, Cookie. We enjoyed the book very much (though certain paragraphs I omitted as inappropriate for young children). We have enjoyed making a map of Alaska's terrain and wildlife and another map with Iditarod checkpoints. We can't wait to find out which musher is hauling our "trail mail".
--Christy
We live in western Oregon with our spring flowers blooming already. Our family consists of Dad, Mom, 3 daughters ages 9, 11 & 13, 2 dogs & 2 fish.
Last years' Iditarod was the first we've followed and were a little disappointed that neither of our picks finished the race. We've got our map ready and are excited to follow along again.
Melissa
We live in the Hudson Valley NY and my Two children 15 and 11 are home schooled, Anything to do with animals strikes my youngest as the best lessons and Since we had friends that lived in Alaska we have an interest in the state itself.This is our first year doing this project and so far the Children are enjoying it a lot.
The Iditarod is a fun unit that I do with my first grade class. Most of them never heard of the Iditarod until I introduce a unit on Alaska in early February. Once they learn about Alaska's state sport being dog mushing, they are all eager to learn more. The next natural unit of study is the Iditarod. My present students as well as former students are anxious for the 2009 Iditarod to start! The e-Iditarod Project is a great way to share our learning with others in the school!
Lorene/Chicago area
I'm a second grade teacher in southern California (Ventura County). My class is participating for the first time this year and having fun so far. I heard about the eIditarod project from a friend who home schools her son. We're getting our map done this next week and are starting to think about which musher to follow. We had a class vote to decide if we should follow a rookie or a veteran and the class decided they wanted to follow a rookie. We also sent a letter in for the trail mail project...we wrote a cinquain poem about sled dogs which we wrote together as a class. We've been reading some stories about sled dogs, etc. and they are having fun so far and learning a lot. One of my students went to Alaska over winter break so he's going to bring in some pictures for our class bulletin board. Looking forward to an educational and exciting adventure as we follow the Iditarod this year.
Krista Ames-Cook
I teach a great group of 96 7th grade math students in five classes at North Arvada Middle School in Arvada, Colorado (a suburb NW of Denver). I became aware of the e-Iditarod Project through registering for Walter's "Using Multiple Intelligences in Teaching" class, upcoming in mid-February.
In evaluating Student Multiple Intelligences Surveys for all of my kids just after Winter Break this year, I became keenly aware that nearly all have pets, and are very interested in learning about them --- therefore the hook to the sled dogs in the Iditarod. I have introduced them to the Iditarod through my own PowerPoint presentations and also by showing them the movie "Sled Dogs", chapter by chapter, at the beginning of most of their long block classes three days a week. They are totally enthralled with the movie and beg me to keep going after each of the 10-minute chapters.
I am using the Iditarod website for facts and information that help me put together math work assignments (like EXCEL training spreadsheets involving winning times, purse winnings and gender of participants). Hooking the Iditarod to this is working quite well.
I hail from Denver, Colorado (circa 1947) and have math degrees from the University of Denver. I have recently begun my fourth career as a math teacher, returning to work I intended to do when I graduated from college. Instead, I worked in the oil & gas business from 1967 to 1990, then had my own small business consulting firm from 1991 to 1997. I was a consulting project manager for Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and several other large businesses from 1998 to 2007.
I have only been to Alaska once on a summer cruise from Vancouver, through the inland waterways, up to Sitka. It is simply beautiful country, very much like Colorado (except closer to sea-level). I am investigating going to the Iditarod Summer Camp for teachers, both for the sight-seeing and the learning.
George Mayfield
We are a homeschooling family in Virginia near Washington, DC. Daughter 12 1/2 years and son 8 years. We are doing this project because Matt has a LOVE of Huskies.
This is our first year doing this and we are very excited!
We live outside of Omaha, NE. We are going to be homeschooling our daughter for 2nd grade but have already started working on some units at home. So essentially she's still in public school but is homeschooled also. We are really enjoying learning about the Idiarod. My daughter and I both love animals. We have our map done and it's hanging on the wall in the dining room (where we do our lessons) We also sent a letter for the trail mail and are anxious to see which musher will carry it. We are really looking forward to this adventure.
Laura and Jordan L.
We live in eastern Pennsylvania about 45 miles north of Philadelphia. Our winter has been very cold with many days in the 20's and teens. Too cold for this mom. Our children are 14 & 11 and in 9th and 6th grade respectively. This is our first year doing this project and I must say that we are having a ball doing it. Our map was completed last week. We have read Woodsong by Gary Paulsen, Dogs of the Iditarod by Jeff Schultz (many great pictures) and we will be reading Iditarod Dreams by Deedee Jonrowe. We are really getting excited and are learning a lot. My daughter has been researching the mushers diligently, she has even contacted a couple via e-mail. I think she is picking her musher based on the cutest dog. My son (14) really had no interest in this until the map went up. We will each pick a musher with the "winner" amongst us getting a prize as well.
Cindy V/Pennsylvania
We are the St. Therese Co-Op homeschool in Manassas, Virginia. I homeschool my 8 year old son, but as part of our co-op, we are studying the Iditarod with 5 other children around the same age. We're new this year and are learning as we go. Each student has traced a map of Alaska on a display board (so they can keep them at home when we finish the project). We've studied the state of Alaska and have watched the movie "Balto". We have sent a letter to trail mail and look forward to choosing our musher team and following the race. Please let us know of any fun things we can do. We only meet twice a month so we have to hit on the most important aspects. We ordered a program of the 2009 Iditarod and can't wait to get it.
Doris
This will be our fourth year officially following the Iditarod. We are a homeschooling family with five kids ranging from 3-11 years old. So, our projects run the gamut in terms of ability level, but they all have a great time learning more each year.
This year we will be putting together lapbooks as we follow the race. I can't wait for the race to begin, it gets more fun to watch every year as we know more of the terminology, history, mushers, and geography.
~Erin
Hello! We are from Lincoln NE. We homeschool our sons who are 8 & 13. This is our 4th year with the Iditarod and we just learn more each year and look so forward to it!
We almost made a trip up to Minn. for a sled dog race last month, but weren't able to. Our friend who did go, had a great time and got to spend time with the dogs and the mushers! We plan to next year as some of the mushers also race in the Iditarod.
I really recommend the Insider, you will love the interviews and coverage. We usually end up hooking our projector up and having some Iditarod parties with friends.
Last year we met with other homeschool friends and held various learning activities together and we held a Iditarod obstacle course with all of the checkpoints. The kids and adults alike enjoyed that!
We are going to do lapbooks this year. We've done notebooks, and several of the activities provided on the website. It's hard to just pick one musher, because we've learned and followed so many over these last four years, you feel like you know them!
For all of the first timers, welcome! Enjoy, relax, remember you can't do it all and really there's no reason to. You can enjoy this each years and explore more and different thigs each time!
The Zimmerman family
We are a homeschooling family from Westlake Village, CA (near Los Angeles) in Ventura County. My 10 year old daughter LOVES dogs and we are excited to follow the race for the first time this year. We are also expecially interested because we are taking a "fieldtrip" in May on an Alaskan cruise. Our goal is to have each of our children visit all 50 States before they fly the coop. Our oldest twins are graduating from Pepperdine University this spring and Alaska will be their 49th state (ND will be #50) and our 10 year old's 35th State. We just sent in our "trail mail" letter and are hoping that it will make its way back to us.
-Caroline Kirchner
We live in Washhington State with our five wonderful sons. My husband and I thought the Iditarod would be a wonderful way to learn as a family. We are looking forward to share the love of learning as a famiy. The best part is it offers things for different ages. Our sons are 10,8,4,3,&2 so it's always great when we find a project thats fun for everyone. Melinda
We are a homeschooling family of 8 from Downunder - we live in a small town 20 kms north of Brisbane in the state of Queensland to be exact! See if you can find it on your maps :o)
We're just starting off our school year and thought that this would be a really fun way to do it.
This is our first Iditarod and we're very excited to be learning about an event that is happening on the other end of the globe, and with the extreme opposite of climate/landscapes to ours.
Our winter temperatures are around 20C/70F and if it gets much colder we think its freezing!
It's also VERY exciting to think that our family Trail Project will be travelling on the actual trail!
Leesa and family
Hello, we area homeschooling family from Canada and this is our first year doing this. So far our letter went out late, sigh. Hoping it makes it. But totally enjoying the rest. We have been watching the Iditarod series on Discovery Channel from last year and it has been getting my son very interested. We will end up not doing a wall map, just too much for one child. And any way of doing it involves too much. Other that, we are looking forward to it all.
Hello,
We are a homeschooling family from Kentucky. We have 3 boys, ages 12, 9 and 9. Last year only one of them was homeschooled but the other to were very interested and followed along with us. This year they are all at home. So far we are reading the Carol Marsh Iditarod mystery, making a lapbook, we sent in a trail mail letter and we made a HUGE wall map. I love the Insider for the video clips. I want to find an art project to go along with the unit. Last year we carved a seal out of soap. Any idea's for something different?
Juanita
We are homeschoolers in Eastern Wyoming. This will be our second year of following the Iditarod and we are excited. Our son is kindergarten-age and very interested in animals and maps, so this is perfect for him. We just hope we pick a musher who finishes the race this year.
We are a homeschooling family of 5 children from K-12th grade. We have followed and done various activities about the Idiitarod two times. We will be following it again this year, but probably not as in big a scale as last year. If you would like to see what we did last year, feel free to check out my blog. http://bergspot.blogspot.com/
Look in the entries around this time last year.
Have fun,
Phyllis
There are another homeschool family and are from upstate New York. We are having lots of fun and are anxiously watching reports of Mt. Redoubt. Does anyone know if they ever cancel an Iditarod because of volcanoes? We picked Martin Buser for our musher because he's such a character and we like the way he takes care of his dogs. We got a kick out of the comment he made about how everyone gets lost at some time during the race. The trick is to find your way back to the trail as soon as possible. We look forward to hearing everyone's input.
We are 2 fourth grade classes in small town NC (Claremont, NC to be exact). This is my 5th year following ht eIditarod with my reading classes. Each class choses a musher and the two classes enjoy the competition. I hope to pick up a few more new ideas for this year.
Happy mushing!
R Lamb in NC
We are from Southern Wisconsin and this is our first time studying the Iditarod. We are a homeschool family, with 1 10 yr son. We are enjoying learning about Alaska and the race.
On Saturday, we even went to see dog sled races near us. It was so cool to see the barking dogs and their boundless energy and to hear the padding of their feet and the swish of the sled as it whizzed by. We also watched some of the same dogs in a weight pull contest. Did you know that 1 dog (They were Alaskan Malamutes) can pull more than 900 lbs by himself? It took 4 MEN to pull the sled back after the one dog pulled it forward. It was incredible.
Renee S
We live on the East coast and have three children ages 9,7 & 4. We have created and decorated our map and have it on our wall. We have also chosen Paul Gebhardt as our musher. We mailed him a letter as soon as we chose him telling him that we are rooting for him and will be watching him. We are currently reading Racing the Iditarod by Ruth Crissman. It is an older book but has very comprehensive information to get us started. We are looking forward to following this exciting race!
~Jennifer
We live in Virginia near historical Fredericksburg (Civil War). Our sons ages 4 and 6 are homeschooled and are learning tons from this project. This is our first year. Our map is made, we need to select a musher and have decided to create a lapbook about the event as well. My son is excited that his letter will be carried on the trail. Good Luck to all of the mushers and thanks to all who post great links, resources and ideas for us first timers.
Lisa
Nathan
Alex
Hi from Massachusetts!
This will be my 5th year doing this project and each year gets more exciting. My 3 6th grade science classes will be following the Iditarod this year. WEe have already studied the history of the trail and the race. They can't wait until it is time to pick their musher.
Scott Bodamer
We are a homeschooling family from the Piedmont area of NC. I have followed the Iditarod many times as I have a sister who has lived in Anchorage for over 30 yrs. I have 2 older daughters who followed it as part of their homeschooling in the 90's and now I am following it for the second year with my 9 year old daughter. She did her 4-H presentation on the Iditarod last year.
Last April, we went to visit Tom Roig, a musher from OH, who has started the Iditarod twice, but unfortunately didn't finish either time. He and his wife were wonderful and we had a very memorable time with them and their dogs.
We read many books last year, but our favorite was Adventure in Alaska by SA Kramer. It is the story of Libby Riddles racing the Iditarod. It is out of print, but we were lucky to find it at our library.
This year we will actually be learning more about Alaska itself tham the Iditarod because we are planning a 3 week trip there in the summer.
Linda Walsh
We homeschool and live in Enumclaw, Washington. My kids are 8 and almost 10, and this is our second year doing eIditarod. The kids had a BLAST last year, and are excited to participate again. We pulled out the maps they made last year, and are getting ready to choose our musher.
Cheryl
We are a homeschooling family from Michigan. We have four children and have followed the iditarod for three years. My kids and I still love it!!! Our kids each pick a racer and then we pick one racer for the entire family. Our wall map is complete and we are in the process of picking our racer. (This can be a long process) We have learned so much about the iditarod and Alaska, each year we learn something new. Thanks Walter for always comitting to this great project!!
Debbie E.
We are a homeschooling family from northern Virginia. This year we have a 8th, 6th, 4th, 3rd, 1st & preschooler (and a baby!) who are going to be following the race. This is our first year following it. I bought the Discovery Channels DVD of the episodes of the race from last year. We are still going through them. They are wonderful and give a great feel (I think!) of the race and an introduction to some of the mushers. We are reading some books as well to acquaint us more with the race and it's traditions and history. Thanks for this great opportunity!!!
-KackyK teacher/mom for Assumption Academy
We are from Central Ontario and this week have had a cold snap and spring warmth--kind of strange in February!? We home educate 3 daughters (13,12,11) and this is our first time to participate in the eIditarod--so we are behind a bit, but the map is in progress as I write. My husband and I have been to Alaska so the girls have some photos to look at. And, they have been dog-sledding. A rare opportunity we took advantage of!
Currently we are living in TN. Home is where the military sends us. We have followed the Iditarod for the past 4 years. Our son LOVES it. He has been corresponding with one of the racers from last year. Our son found plans on the internet and built a sled for our dogs to pull. Now we just need snow. We learn something new every year. It is so much fun!
Vadeen
Hailing in from the great state of Iowa. I am Mrs. Warnke, I go by Ang W. We have home educated here since 1994-95. Currently I am down to two students grades 4th and 7th. These two are somewhat behind, prayerfully they are catching up. We joined along with this last year and enjoyed it a lot. We enjoyed the end of race party where we made many of the recipes that links had been sent along to. This year if some one will send them again, I lost them. We would like to do a beginning of race party as well.
We do have a couple of other students busy with wrestling and track. That will not be doing much other than eating and listing to where our racers are. My mom sister married a Gebhart, so my cousins have that last name. We had to cheer for him. While we share the last name of one racer we pick him as well. Last year we picked a rookie as well. I'll try to stear them another way, possibly. I am not sure.
We homeschool in DE with our two kids 7 & 5. This is our first year participating in the eIditarod Project and we are having a lot of fun. We have read Woodsong by Gary Paulsen and Akiak by Robert Blake (the kids really LOVED this one). We just checked out Togo, also by Blake, today and will be reading it this week. Our map is made and we are ready to pick our musher! We sent our trail mail about 3 weeks ago and received confirmation that it arrived. The resources from this group have been so helpful. We have especially enjoyed the Moose Racks, Bear Track and Other Alaska Kid Snacks. YUM!
Hello everyone. I am following the Iditarod for my fourth year. I teach three 5th grade math classes at an elementary school in Conover, North Carolina. I continue to do this project every year because the kids get so involved and enthusiastic about following the race. I can integrate so much learning into the race as we go. Can't wait for it to start! Thalia Matthews
Hello from Kansas! My fourteen 3rd graders are so excited about this project! We are quickly wrapping up other projects so that this will be their main focus. This is our first year of participation in the e-Iditarod. Besides having a class musher, each child will also be watching their own pick. We have sent a letter to go on the trail. One fun project for us will be making our sled and "Iditarocks" which will be our sled dogs. I have also found a Reader's Theater dealing with the Iditarod which they will enjoy doing. The class will be reading "Stone Fox" and "Silver" to go along with the project. Maybe we will be lucky and receive some snow during the race as we haven't had hardly any all winter!!
Anita
We are a homeschooling family in Northborough, Massachusetts. We participated in the eIditarod a few years ago with my older son, now an 8th grader,and this winter my younger son,a 1st grader, asked if the activity was still available...so here we are!
We still receive email blasts from our musher back in 2006 (although he was DQd near the end of the race because he was so slow) and hope to find such an enthusiastic musher this year!
Thanks to everyone for the great ideas this year!
MB Miotto
We are from New Hampshire where we get to experience all 4 seasons. We still have a considerable amount of snow and we are looking forward to spring. I am homeschooling my 4 children for the first time this year: 9th, 7th, 5th and a 3rd grader. The kids and I are looking forward to the race and all the adventures that go along with it.
Hello from Massachusetts! We live not too far from The Old North Bridge, site of “the shot heard around the world” that began the American Revolution in 1775.
This is our second year following the Iditarod. Last year each family member chose a different musher to follow. In addition to learning about the Iditarod, we studied the state of Alaska, the Arctic, and the Inuit people. We look forward to learning even more this year!
Shoot--forgot to follow all the instructions! Our homeschooling family includes a 5th grader, a 2nd grader and a preschooler who all get involved in the fun. I've begun compiling Iditarod resources we used last year, and plan to post what we are using this year, here on my blog, Rockhound Place.
~Christina in MA
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We are from Pennsylvania, Pocono area. We homeschool our sons 8 & 3and our daughter who is 6. This is our first time following the Iditarod race and we are enjoying it.
I am a veteran Missouri teacher who began using the eiditarod project through eMINTS training. When students are in the 5th grade they read Gary Paulsen's book. When I get the students in MS, I expand on that previous knowledge, by having students read Black Star, Bright Dawn, by Scott Odell. It is a short, quick read, and has many things that students can compare via T-chart or Venn diagram. My students really enjoy selecting a musher and watching his/her progress. Once the Iditarod is over, I have students consider the essential question (Should sponsors continue to fund the Iditarod due to concerns about safety for man and animal?), and then write an essay supporting the Iditarod or not supporting it. Students do a lot of research to be able to support their ideas. Thank you Walter for having such a great set of resources for all of us to use and share with each other.
Jackie Starke jstarke@nfranklin.k12.mo.us
New Franklin R-1 Schools
We are a homeschooling family in Georgia. We homeschool four sons in grades 12, 8, 5, and 2. This is our first year following the Iditarod and we are enjoying learning about it.
Shelly; GA
We are from De Soto, Missouri. I have twenty-three third grade students who are excitedly learning about The Iditarod and can't wait for the race to begin! This will be my second year following the race.
Jeannie
We are a homeschooling family in Georgia. My sons are 12 and 10. My daughter is 8.
This is our first year participating in the eIditarod. It has given us all the urge to head to Alaska and see it in person!
The biggest challenge we've had is for me to try to explain how COLD those temps. are to children who have only seen snow a handful of times.
Laura Horn
We are a homeschool family of three (ages 8, 7, and 6); we hail from southern British Columbia, Canada. We are just finishing a unit study on "sled dogs" in preparation for our next one on the Iditarod. We are all excited about it, we've been reading books and watching Discovery channel whenever "the race" comes on. We can't wait.
Hi from Sackville, New Brunswick in Canada! I have a grade 7/8 class who can't wait to follow this year's race!
Hi from Sackville, New Brunswick in Canada. I teach a grade 7/8 class and they can't wait to follow the race!!
Hello from Long Island, New York. I am a third grade teacher who studies the Polar Regions as part of our Social Studies curriculum. Our school is very technologically based and we love watching the race and blogging from our SmartBoard in our room!! This is my 2nd year doing it with my class. I have parents and students come up to me saying how great it was last year so Im looking forward to becoming a "veteran" myself! :)
I am a library media specialist in Hebron, CT. Our fourth grade classes have just finished reading the novel Stone Fox by J.R. Gardiner. The classroom teachers and I wanted to find a way to connect this book to real life and integrate technology and are thrilled to find this project! Each class has chosen a musher and we have a wall display with the maps so we can track our mushers side by side. We are excited to see which musher "wins" for our school! We also look forward to sharing this experience with all of you!
We are from North Carolina, home of the best college basketball in the world. I teach a ninth grade English/remedial class (yeah, a little older than most of your students) and we thought it would be great fun to do this while reading Call of the Wild. Several of my students are Gary Paulsen fans and were very disappointed that he withdrew. My different periods are picking different mushers and racing each other! They don't care who wins, as long their musher beats the other periods' picks.
Alford
I am a technology teacher in a New York City Public School. In collaboration with the classroom teachers and the art teacher, the 5th grade classes are following the Iditarod this year. The girls and boys in each class picked their own teams to follow, so it has also become a battle of the sexes here. The subject of Alaska ties in nicely with the social studies curriculum, and since I will be visiting the state in August I have my own interests. We are looking forward to s great race.
Debbie
Charlee and the Kinders in Germany here! We are a Kindergarten class of 5-6 year olds whose parent(s) are in the US military or are civilians(s) employed by the military. Our school is K-2nd grade only and boasts an enrollment of over 850 students! We are all Americans but some of the children have never lived in the states and only know the "New Nited States" as a place they go to see grandma and grandpa.
We have already located Alaska on the map and a globe as part of our preparation for Read Across America. Our job was to make a billboard for the state we are representing and by hook or by crook, we got Alaska! We made a poster of a dogsled team with the letters for Alaska in the sky.
I have been following the Iditarod since 1994 when the Gifted and Talented teacher asked all the classes at our school (I was in Japan at that time) to pick a musher. I fell in love with the sport and have since traveled to AK for the summer teachers' conference. If ever you have a chance to attend the conference, I recommend it. We met mushers, learned about the culture, visited kennels, met authors, vets, Iditarod HQ people and made some great friends.
We have plans for many of the activities included in the eIditarod challenge. We will also be using some SmartBoard activities I made as part of a class I just finished. I plan to set up an I-Kid-A-Rod with physical fitness challenges for the kids to do as a team. This past Friday our Arctic Animal Adoption Agency opened and each child chose a stuffed animal from AK to adopt. Over the next month they will learn how to care for animals. They will be responsible for feeding, watering ,exercising, bonding, and playing with their animals each day. Those who mistreat their pet will lose it for a day and have to "pay " to kennel it for the day.
You won't hear from us on this blog as our school has blocked blogs for security reasons. We will be following along and posting to the group site. Enjoy this experience and share your ideas with us too!
We are a homeschooling family from Pennsylvania. This is our first year following the Iditarod. We have been doing quite a bit of activities. The girls have been reading books, watching videos, doing worksheets, and reading about the race on-line. We have really appreciated all of the suggestions that have been posted in the e-iditarod Yahoo Group. That is where we have gotten most of our ideas as well as the official Iditarod web site and Walter's web site. We have chosen our Musher and gotten confirmation that our trail mail has been assigned to a musher. This morning my girls who are 6 and 8 are working on lapbooks about the race. My older daughter has learned about the state flower, state bird, year of statehood and much geography of the region. Today she is putting much of that into her lapbook.
Thanks again Walter we are really enjoying this experience!
Cheryl Ann in PA
Sorry so late in responding to this roll call. My name is Anna Baralt, and I run a computer lab at a private school in St. Petersburg, FL. I am following the Iditarod with my four 3rd grade classes (80 students total).
This is the second year I am following the race with my students. I am definitely better prepared this year! My students are working with partners on a webquest I created http://questgarden.com/54/75/3/080119190853/and are also participating in the Idita-read project (http://www.idita-read.org/)
Anna
Hi,
We are the Strickler family, an American homeschool family living in Nassau,Bahamas. We have followed the iditarod for a few years now and are looking forward to following it again.
Christy S.
We are from Virginia where we managed to have a foot of snow this past week (it will be close to 80 degrees today. We also have 2 very little dogs, I let my homeschooled 3rd and 1st grader now that these were the types of conditions that the big dogs would face for an entire month. Needless to say they were impressed. We are new to the project, but looking forward to seeing how our musher choices do.
Cathy Gillerlain
We are a homeschooling family in South Jersey. This is my 5 yo daughter's second year following the Iditarod and our second year following musher Melissa Owens.
Ann and Tala
We are from Philadelphia, PA, and love dogs, sports, and nature. We followed the race last year, and loved learning about all of the mushers. We homeschool 5th grade and kindergarten.
Rodi
We are living and homeschooling in Cincinnati, OH. My son will be 9 at the end of this month and my daughter will be 6 in April. This is our 3rd year following the race and we just love it! Thanks so much for organizing!!
The Thorns
We are a fourth grade class in Claremont, NC. This is my 4th year following along and participating in the eIditarod. Can't wait to try out some new activities this year!
Mrs. Lamb's fourth grade
I am a Marine wife and a mom of three. We started homeschooling 3 years ago. My two oldest are boys, ages 14 and 13... My youngest is a girl and she is 10. We are currently stationed in California, but will be moving back to North Carolina in the summer. We are very excited. Not a big fan of California.
We are very excited about following the Iditarod. We were going to do it last year, but we found out about it too late. We are going to be starting our map tonight Lord willing. My daughter is the only one really interested right now. I am hoping as we move along on the map, the other two will show some interest. Looking forward to all the information we are going to gain from this!
God bless,
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We are a home school family from Stafford, VA. I am homeschooling my 3 boys - 11, 9 & 7. We did the eIditarod last year and loved it. Our favorite was watching the Nome-cam before the race, watching the visitor center open with the vast open space behind it.
Danielle Dash
This will be our second year with the eiditarod. I am homeschooling my 5th grade son. Last year he enjoyed making an igloo out of sugar cubes, and a sled out of popsicle sticks. We really enjoyed watching the movie from Discovery, "Toughest Race on Earth: Iditarod". We live in southern NJ, about 25 miles off- shore from Atlantic City. My son also has interest in Alaska, since he has attended our local Klondike Derby with the Scouts.
Our 8 year old (3rd grade) international class hails from Tbilisi, in the Republic of Georgia! We have students from all over the world! Alsu (Turkish/Russian), Anna (American - Kansas), Anuka (Georgian/German), Sidar (Turkish/Dutch), Olivia (American - North Carolina), Ian H. (American/Honduran), Yenthe (Dutch), Ekin (Turkish/Dutch), Ian M. (American - Indiana), Oskar (German/Swedish), Virginia (Lithuanian), Neira (Bosnian), and Mrs. Allison Kercher (USA - Connecticut/Colorado). I participated with my class last year and am excited to have this year's class participate too! Mush on!
Hello:)
Homeschoolers here. Looking forward to this race!
Blue Ray Academy
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