Hello Boys and Girls!
We now have 65 mushers who have signed up to run this year’s race! Isn’t that exciting? Have you taken a look at the musher listing on the website? When you do, you’ll be able to notice that we have mushers not only from the United States, but Canada, United Kingdom, Italy, [...]
Hello, Boys and Girls!
The months of June, July, and August were a mixture of busy days and lazy days. Summer in Alaska is a beautiful time. All of the daylight hours give everyone plenty of time to be outside. When I wasn’t walking around the neighborhood, I enjoyed chewing on my favorite toys [...]
Dear Zuma,
We are 2nd graders from Charlotte, North Carolina. We have been reading Akiak: A Tale from the Iditarod. This story has taught us a lot about the Iditarod dog race. In the story, Akiak, the dog, displays his courage by finishing the race with an injured paw. We enjoyed the story and had [...]
Hello Boys and Girls!
Thanks for writing to me! I hope you are having a great day in your school in Louisiana! I looked on the map at where you live and see it is a long way from where I live! I know that your climate is not the same as the climate in Alaska. [...]
Hello Boys and Girls!
I know you will enjoy these stories and poems from our readers in Nebraska. They wrote about Nigel and the adventures Nigel had while being ‘lost’ from his musher and team mates.
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Nigel’s Story
By April
Nigel tried to remember how he got lost. It was windy and snowing and really hard to [...]
Hi Boys and Girls
It has been really exciting reading the emails and the blog comments. It looks like there are a few classes out there where the students are writing stories as if they were Nigel- the dog that was lost on the trail. They have been sending the stories to us and [...]
Dear Zuma and friends,
We here at Collingswood Middle School ( Grade 6) in New Jersey have been following the race and learning all about it. My classmates and I enjoy seeing how our chosen mushers are doing. How exciting! I’ve learned about how the mushers have to carry the symbolic mailbags with them from Anchorage [...]
Dear Zuma,
We are a third grade class from Jupiter, Florida (like the planet). We have just finished taking the FCAT and boy we are glad it is over! The test took us three days (reading and mathematics) and we did our very best. We live 15 minutes from the beach and enjoy the warm weather [...]
Dear Zuma, We are in a small kindergarten class from Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. We have been wondering if you have ever seen the northern lights in the sky. Can you tell us how those lights get up in the sky and why are they different colors? We think the northern lights look awesome and would [...]
Hi Boys and Girls,
Just a short message about Mt. Redoubt. Mt Redoubt is a volcano in Alaska and has erupted during the night. I just heard from Zuma and they are safe at the Millennium. Here is what Zuma had to say:
Just an update to everyone. Redoubt blew a couple hours ago and we’ve [...]
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We K9 reporters have received many emails and blog comments asking us what the difference is between a musher who has scratched or was withdrawn from the race. This is an excellent question for the blog.
When a musher scratches from the race, he or she makes the decision themselves. [...]
OOF!
My name is Ross, and I am a different kind of working dog. I am in training to be a Canine Companions for Independence (www.cci.org) assistance dog. CCI provides dogs free of charge to people with disabilities other than blindness. I am 9 1/2 months old and go to CCI College (aka Advanced Training) in [...]
