Saturday, April 17, 2010

Iditarod Activities



1. After the students pick a mucher, I have them make a trading card with the musher's picture and some facts.

2. I teach the students that it takes a lot of money to raise all the dogs and keep them healthy. In groups, I have them come up with a list of things they would need to use money for throughout the year. After this activity, I tell them that they need to desing a t-shirt to sell in order to raise money for their musher. (They won't really be selling these t-shirts) I had my students include the musher's name and IDITAROD 2010 somewhere in the design.

Thursday, April 1, 2010

Siberian Husky Visit



We had a puppy Siberian Husky visit us today to wrap up our Iditarod unit. Turns out she's not old enough to race! ;-)

Social Studies Unit - Pacific States










What a jammed packed Pacific States unit this month! With only 5 states, we did some really fun stuff! First, for Alaska, we followed the Iditarod... I still haven't posted those pictues, have I!??! We followed the race on a bulletin board sized map of Alaska. Tomorrow we are having a Luau for our Pacific States Unit Wrap Up! I posted pictures of the bulletin board display (there will by yummy tropical food on that counter tomorrow too!)