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
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I think Rohn has been busy finishing high school as of Dec. 18 and caring for dogs at home while Martin took a number of dogs to Trapper Creek to run on snow. All that info was on their Happy Trails web site. I saw a "husky" Saturday--the mascot for the University of Connecticutt Huskies at the Meineke Car Care Bowl against Wake Forest University. Their husky, a person dressed as a white husky, needed more muscles! He didn't look as athletic as the real huskies do. I am glad to report the Wake Forest won the game. At school we've been studying folk literature and I included Native Alaskan myths. We covered fairy tales, too, and the Disney movie, Enchanted, was a perfect field trip for us. Go see the movie if you get a chance--it's not just for kids.
Martha
We spoke with Kent on December 21st. Kent had four days of training lined up for the dogs and was going to spend some time with friends inbetween those runs. He also reported that the next time we talk to him, which will be in January, he would have already run one of his training races. We are excited to hear all about that.
We asked him about potlachs and he explained what that looks like today.
In November we studied the Plains Indians of Nebraska and the tribes of Alaska. I had mini posters made from pictures that I took at the Native American museum which had information on the tribes of Alaska, and used the packet that we received at the conference on the Alaska Native American tribes as learning resources. The students learned that all Native Americans depended on the earth, including the sea and rivers as well as the wildlife to survive. Kent sent a map he used when teaching that showed all of the different languages in Alaska. We came to know that a different language meant a new culture, similar, but different. The kids recorded their information on charter paper, we used a jigsaw method of active learning. I enjoyed learning right along with the students. That is what is so great about being a teacher, we are always learning.
Happy New Year to All.
Judi
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