Dear Boys and Girls,
Just imagine a class with 50 students from all over the United States. That was the group I had to teach Tuesday morning. Each of the finalists for Teacher on the Trail had to make presentations to teachers who came to Anchorage to learn about the Iditarod. In the room there were teachers from California, Maryland, Montana, Vermont, Florida, California, Wisconsin, and more. Over the past few weeks, I have been working on my presentation, but I was still nervous. I showed a Power Point presentation with pictures of the dog collages you made in September. Remember when we took them to our Senior Friends? I told all of the teachers about how we display them on a bulletin board to represent how we are all working together like a team to learn as much as we can this year. I also showed them your creative "Dogs, Dogs, Dogs" poems and your Dog Breed Posters. They were very interested in your projects. One teacher from here in Alaska said she is going to make the dog collages with her class on Monday. Isn't that cool? Once my presentation was over, I listened to the other finalists and their teaching ideas. both of them had fantastic ideas. I hope we can do them in class when I return. The rest of the day, we continued learning about the Iditarod. I listened to a presentation by Nancy Yoshida. She was in the Iditarod in 2010, but had to scratch because one of her dogs ran away. She wrote the whole story in a book that I am bringing back to school for you to read. After that, I listened to another musher, Angie Taggart. Her dream was to do the Iditarod. She worked for ten years to make her dream come true and finally competed last year in 2011. Angie started by getting a job at Dee Dee Jonrowe's Kennel. Little by little she learned all of the skills she needed. She also bought dogs to build up a team. Finally, last year she was ready to hit the trail. During the race, she wore a sport video camera on her head. CNN made her videos into 4 short videos that you can watch to learn all about what it must feel like to be out on the trail for the first time. After Angie's talk, we all had to go on a field trip to the gallery of John Van Zyle. He has a kennel of siberian huskies who are perfectly trained. If they want to be petted, they have to sit on top of their houses and wait quietly. You wouldn't believe how well behaved they all were for us teachers. Next we went in John's house and learned about his artwork and the many books he has written or illustrated. Did you know he is the official artist of the Iditarod? By now, I bet you are tired of reading all the things I did. It's very late here, so I am going to say good bye for now. I'll write more about my trip soon!
Just imagine a class with 50 students from all over the United States. That was the group I had to teach Tuesday morning. Each of the finalists for Teacher on the Trail had to make presentations to teachers who came to Anchorage to learn about the Iditarod. In the room there were teachers from California, Maryland, Montana, Vermont, Florida, California, Wisconsin, and more. Over the past few weeks, I have been working on my presentation, but I was still nervous. I showed a Power Point presentation with pictures of the dog collages you made in September. Remember when we took them to our Senior Friends? I told all of the teachers about how we display them on a bulletin board to represent how we are all working together like a team to learn as much as we can this year. I also showed them your creative "Dogs, Dogs, Dogs" poems and your Dog Breed Posters. They were very interested in your projects. One teacher from here in Alaska said she is going to make the dog collages with her class on Monday. Isn't that cool? Once my presentation was over, I listened to the other finalists and their teaching ideas. both of them had fantastic ideas. I hope we can do them in class when I return. The rest of the day, we continued learning about the Iditarod. I listened to a presentation by Nancy Yoshida. She was in the Iditarod in 2010, but had to scratch because one of her dogs ran away. She wrote the whole story in a book that I am bringing back to school for you to read. After that, I listened to another musher, Angie Taggart. Her dream was to do the Iditarod. She worked for ten years to make her dream come true and finally competed last year in 2011. Angie started by getting a job at Dee Dee Jonrowe's Kennel. Little by little she learned all of the skills she needed. She also bought dogs to build up a team. Finally, last year she was ready to hit the trail. During the race, she wore a sport video camera on her head. CNN made her videos into 4 short videos that you can watch to learn all about what it must feel like to be out on the trail for the first time. After Angie's talk, we all had to go on a field trip to the gallery of John Van Zyle. He has a kennel of siberian huskies who are perfectly trained. If they want to be petted, they have to sit on top of their houses and wait quietly. You wouldn't believe how well behaved they all were for us teachers. Next we went in John's house and learned about his artwork and the many books he has written or illustrated. Did you know he is the official artist of the Iditarod? By now, I bet you are tired of reading all the things I did. It's very late here, so I am going to say good bye for now. I'll write more about my trip soon!
Mrs. Anderson
We have having fun hearing about your trip. We watched the video about Angie Taggart and though it was great! We can't wait for the race to start on Sunday!! We'll all be watching from home.
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We have having fun hearing about your trip. We watched the video about Angie Taggart and though it was great! We can't wait for the race to start on Sunday!! We'll all be watching from home.
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We love hearing about your trip. We watched the Angie Taggart video and thought it was great. Are you cold up there? All of us are excited about the start on Sunday and will be watching from home.
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