The Wolf's Blog

Spring uses a green crayon and turns the brown into nice green grass.

Muddy lawns turn into green fields.

Trees grow green.

Dogs start to run in the green.

I am Nico the blacksmith from the colonial times.  I make all kinds of things like swords, shields, and tools.

If something is too hot, I cool it off with water.  Horseshoes are important, so I make them. I use hammers, saws, and nails.  The shop is made out of bricks because of the fire.

The fire is for heating up metal and making a shape out of it.  I make a shape with the iron on an anvil. I use a hammer for shaping the iron.

See you soon in my shop!

I chose the musher Wade Mars to follow in the Iditarod.  He loves his dogs a lot.  He is one of those people with a beard.  He needs glasses to see.  I chose Wade Mars because I liked his last name Mars.

I read Silver during the Iditarod.  It takes place in a nice place.  It is snowy.  The girl is the main character.  She is nice to her dog Silver.  Silver was a cute puppy.  Silver ran away, and the girl found him.

I read another book that was nonfiction.  It was about the Junior Iditarod.  Dusty wanted to do the race.  He got teased by his friends.  He got ready by packing a lot.  Tons of dogs loved him.  At the start, they ran into caribou.  They were  about to hit a moose, and he was afraid for the dogs, but the dogs did a half circle around it.  At the end, he won a trophy with $1,000 and two plane tickets to Nome to see the winners of the adult Iditarod.

I learned a lot about mushing.  The dogs are wanting to mush.  The huskies sometimes walk and sometimes run.  They work a lot at night.  Aliy was in the lead sometimes, and she pets her dogs.  The dogs like to yip, yap, and bark.  They are famous for running a lot of miles.  I like their curly tails.  They are well-trained.

I made a list of strong Iditarod verbs to use in my writing.  I chose yip, mush, slide, whoosh, jump, steer, bump, blow, bark, and care.

I compared mushing to a sport I like, karate.  Mushing is different because you run a long time, there is running and riding, there are straight trails, and you are alone competing.  Karate is different because it is usually short, there are defense moves, you do laps, and there are teams.  They are similar because you have to be in good shape for both, and they are both exciting.

I liked the videos on the Iditarod website.  They helped me by getting me to understand what the dogs liked to do at the rest time.  I saw them being fed a type of meat, maybe moose or salmon.  They took a nice nap on the straw.  The musher would take off the booties, rub their feet with lotion, and put new booties on.

I like to pet the dogs.  I like to be in the bag that dogs would rest in.  I like dogs.  Huskies are my favorite animal.  They felt soft.

Our class was wild over our two week literacy unit surrounding the Iditarod Sled Dog Race!  We challenged our favorite musher by counting each page we read during the race as a mile on our giant map of Alaska.  We devoured all kinds of fiction and nonfiction mushing books. We discovered more about nonfiction graphic sources, and we ended every day dancing to “I Did, I Did, I Did the Iditarod Trail.”

Woof

I am a type of dog.

I most likely have black, grey, and white.

I bark.

I yelp.

I yip, yip, yip.

I am an Iditarod husky.

Three things you should know about me are I love wolves, I love huskies, and I love doggies.  Hope to read lots of your writing in the blog challenge!

Sat around the house.

For week 9, we chose to try an Hour of Code activity.  We have been working with Coding Awbie on Osmo, and this week we tried some Minecraft tutorials.

I love Minecraft coding!  You attach things and press go.  I also like regular Minecraft.

I will tell you how to play Spiderman.  The supplies you need are a PS4, a PS4 controller, and a TV.  You need to beat the boss.  There are missions you need to do.  First, you do a boss battle.  Second, you get to do more missions and beat bosses.  You win by beating the big boss.

Our engineering challenge was to design a birdfeeder that would attract a certain type of birds.

My problem statement:

I want jays to come to my yard.  I need a feeder with seeds and a tray for my bird to stand on.  I will make the feeder safe from cats by a metal bar so they can’t climb.

My ideas for building my prototype: