Zuma’s Paw Prints
Have you wondered what it is like out on the Iditarod Trail? Are you looking for pictures taken at the checkpoints? What do mushers do during the race? What do volunteers do? What is a snow hook? How do you go about training sled dogs? What kind of goals do mushers set and how does that compare with the goals students set for themselves? What are the meaning of certain Iditarod and mushing vocabulary words? What is going on at Iditarod Headquarters? Are you looking for an interesting read for your students? Have you wondered how to get your students involved in writing? Your answers await you at Zuma’s Paw Prints.
Zuma’s Paw Prints is your place on the website for your readers and your writers. FOUR K-9 journalists, Zuma, Gypsy, Libby, and Sanka W. Dog write articles to provide you with news and information that your students can use. Each journalist writes in a different style and for a different level of a reader or for a different purpose, making it possible for you to focus on the writing of one journalist— or all of them, depending on the needs and abilities of your students. Students can comment back to the journalists at the blog site. Zuma can still be emailed, too.
That is NOT ALL!
Watch for a special project for your students—- soon to be announced on Zuma’s Paw Prints. (Hint: What can you do to help the local animal shelters in your community?)
Click on the scrapbook at Zuma’s Paw Prints to view pictures that you can use for educational purposes with your students.
If your school filters or blocks blogs, keep in mind that by asking your school’s technology department to view Zuma’s Paw Prints and requesting it to be unblocked, you often can get the site unblocked. This has been the case for most schools who have contacted us. Check with your technology department if you have trouble viewing Zuma’s Paw Prints or other areas of our website.
Zuma’s Paw Prints can play an important role in helping your students to be better readers and writers. Make sure you check our information for teachers that is found at Zuma’s Paw Prints. A message to teachers, provides you with tips and information. Click here to read the message to teachers.
Visit Zuma’s Paw Prints. Click here.
