Third-grade students in Mrs. Savage’s Room 11 at Teague Park Elementary School recently finished reading the award-winning book, “The Stone Fox,” by John Reynolds Gardiner, which tells of how a young boy enters a dogsled race to win $500 so he can help pay back taxes on his grandfather’s farm, ending with a dogsled race. Along with reading the book, Mrs. Savage’s students related what they learned from the book to the Can-Am races held in this area.
The students got to experience first hand about the sled dogs when Mrs. Jane Sutherland and Mr. Gary Malenfant of Caribou, brought their sled-dogs and sleds to the school, showing the students all the nuts and bolts of what dog sledding is about.
“The Stone Fox,” takes place on a potato farm in Wyoming, so the students could relate to the chapters about harvesting potatoes too.
Another book related project the third-graders participated in was creating their own T-shirt designs, that contestants would be given in a dogsled race.
Their designer efforts were displayed in the school’s hallways.
