I'm a Musher!

Here are the students' biographies as they might appear in the official Iditarod race program. I encouraged them to be creative, so be prepared!

Weekly Update

This week in Literature and English we have been getting ready for the Iditarod. On Monday the students participated in the musher draw--they each selected a more experienced musher, and a back-of-the pack musher to follow throughout the race. Then they read and summarized their mushers' biographies. Now the students are doing some creative writing and writing their own biographies as if they were participating in the Iditarod. These biographies are going into a Power Point slide show that I will share with you soon. Additionally, each students has been researching a checkpoint along the Iditarod trail and creating a brochure to advertise it. And in keeping with reading non-fiction, they have been reading articles about the history of the race to gather information for creating a timeline of "The Last Great Race on Earth."

If you are interested in watching any of the race action this weekend, please check out my website (www.ovdmush.co.nr) for the login information for "Iditarod Insider." The ceremonial start will begin on Saturday at 12:45 and the re-start (when timing begins) will be on Sunday at 5:00 P.M. Both events will be carried live via the Insider. There are also webcams available if you just want to see what the downtown start looks like on Saturday. Once the race gets underway, I will have a link on my website that takes you to the current standings.



In Religion this week, Mrs. Ricker was in for guidance class, and Fr. Tom will be coming in tomorrow to introduce our new unit and discuss heresies in the early Christian Church. Since we had one day between Mrs. Ricker and Fr. Tom, we played Catholic Jeopardy in class yesterday. It was a fun way to review some of our Catholic knowledge!

Tomorrow our Lenten collection at Mass will be money for St. Vincents.