Happy Holidays! AND What is New?

Hello everyone!

Happy holidays! Hope everyone has been enjoying a wonderful holiday!

We've got about 60 days until the start of the race!

I'd enjoy hearing what you have been doing to get your students ready to follow the race! I'm looking for stories about what you've done with your rookie mushers and about any classroom lessons you've done or plan to do....

Please share!

(PS... sharing about what you've been doing personally would be great, too! How are you?)

Diane

Please ask your Rookies!

Zuma (the K-9 reporter for Iditarod, click Zuma's Paw Prints if you've never read Zuma.... ) got a GREAT questions today....

Someone asked if the rookies felt 'overwhelmed' especially with so many rookies having signed up for the race... there will be a lot of 'new' mushers on the the trail.

Does anyone have thoughts about this? Has your rookie musher talked about this? Will you be talking or communicating with your rookies soon? If so, this is a great question to discuss!

Diane

Information Please! Rookie Reports!

Hello everyone!

If you've read Zuma lately, you'll notice we've some new things going on in that department. Zuma is now a blog format. Zuma's responsibilities are fully in the Ed. Department now and authored by the Iditarod Ed. Department. If you are interested in assisting with that, let me know. I'll send you more information!

Zuma is also looking for some information about what our rookie mushers are doing right now.

This is a request for information and pictures of your rookie! If you have a current update--- or a report you never sent to me, I'd appreciate your emailing me this week. Zuma would like to write about the rookies and some 'inside' information that you may have....

I am looking forward to hearing from you!

Diane