iditarod elementary school News

By JANET ROMAKER BLADE STAFF WRITER A gray-and-white husky, its nose pressed against a classroom desk, keeps Tatelynn Linares company in Ohio as she cheers on canine athletes racing toward a finish line in Alaska. "It would be kind of scary, and...

Timothy Ohlinger is pretty sure he wants to be a musher one day. The 5-year-old in Bill Douthit's Fire Lake Elementary School kindergarten class already knows a lot about dogs.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - As dozens of mushers and their dog teams race across the wild in Alaska, schoolchildren in South Dakota and across North America are following the Iditarod online and learning about math, science, the weather and the sled dogs. Di...

Author Shelly Gill pumps up her audience of third through sixth-graders about nature, adventure and writing Thursday afternoon. Gill has authored 26 best-selling books, including 12 children's books....

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