Mar. 9, 2006 - The Iditarod
The Iditarod started this last Saturday, and we have been gobbling up every scrap of news available. We have also been doing a small unit study on this huge dog sled race. My siblings and I are working on lapbooks, each of us covering a different aspect of the race.
I am going to do my lapbook on some of the mushers, and other basic stuff that the Iditarod entails.
We have several mushers that we are rooting for.
Gary Paulsen is the author of many books, including, The Hatchet, Brian's Winter, and Winterdance. Winterdance talks about how Gary Paulsen started getting into sled dog racing, and his first time running the Iditerod. Unfortunatly he has already scratched from this years race.
We are also cheering for Rachael Scdoris. As far as we can tell she is the youngest musher running the Iditarod this year, as well as being a native to Central Oregon!
There are also a few other mushers that we are hoping will do well, and you can pick and see who your favorites are at The Official Site of the Iditarod.
I'm kind of curious about who you are rooting for, so if you do have a favorite musher, let me know who!
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