February 28, 2018 : Balto Finishes Strong

The Mini Page is a syndicated, four-page tabloid written for young children found each Wednesday in The Denver Post. This issue of The Mini Page is available through the eEdition Archive to registered eEdition subscribers

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Activities:

1. Use newspaper pictures and words to create an instruction sheet for your friends on how to take care of a dog. Use pictures/words for things to keep your dog healthy, to make sure your dog has good food to eat, and to provide exercise for your dog.

2. Look in the comic strips for pictures of dogs. List the comic strip name. Write a sentence explaining what the dog is doing in the strip. Is it helping in any way?

3. Collect newspaper stories of dogs helping others. Paste them in a notebook. Look for dogs who help individuals and dogs who work for groups like firefighters and police. Write several sentences for each story explaining how the dog is important.Collect newspaper stories of dogs helping others. Paste them in a notebook. Look for dogs who help individuals and dogs who work for groups like firefighters and police. Write several sentences for each story explaining how the dog is important.

4. How are these important to the story of Balto: (a) mushers, (b) diphtheria, (c) Dorothy Page and Joe Redington, and (d) New York City?

5. Plan a multi - leg dog race in your community. Your race can be done in a few hours – not several weeks. Use the newspaper to identify five stops along the way. Draw a map. Use the newspaper to find the following for each stop: a veterinarian, food and water, and medical supplies.

Mini Page activities meet many state and national educational standards. Each week we identify standards that relate to The Mini Page content and offer activities that will help your students reach them.

This week's standard:
Students understand the interactions of animals and their environments. (Science: Life Science)

(standards by Dr. Sherrye D. Garrett, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi)