This week’s integrated mushing activity was a literacy lesson focused on the Junior Iditarod.  We read Wind-Wild Dog by Barbara Joosse.  “The night Ziva was born, the wind held its breath.”  What amazing descriptive language!  We discussed mushing wonderings and vocabulary.  Then it was on to our inquiry of the day:  What is the Junior Iditarod?

 

We read about mushers close to our own age, and then chose one musher to zoom in on.  

Picking out important information about the musher gave us facts we needed to create a poster about the musher.

 

In just a few weeks, these young mushers will race on their own across 150 miles of Alaskan wilderness, and we’ll be cheering them on from New Hampshire.  The Iditarod countdown is on!