Welcome to Wild Canine Diary! Travel to different continents and document your learning with fun writing assignments. Earn a specific canine bookmark for each canine! Complete a continent and you will earn a Wild Canine Researcher badge on your passport and a Wild Canine Researcher Certificate for the specific continent! Earn all badges and receive an Ultimate Wild Canine Researcher Certificate! 

You will learn about the wild canines around the world! With the help of a slideshow including fun multiple-choice questions and pictures, we will discuss facts about one canine each week. I will share information such as continent, habitat, markings, special adaptations, sounds, endangered status, and even some history. I encourage students to share what they may already know and/or what they are hoping to learn. 

Passports: Passports are a place to keep all your earned badges, but also all your assignments as a record of all the amazing felines in the world.
Printable: Passports can be made with pencil/paper or by using the printable found on the classroom page after enrollment. Passports are a place to keep the badges you earn. Each badge is printable.

Assignment: Students have a choice of 3 writing assignments each week. Two are always to take on one of the roles in the world of wild canines for a nonfiction piece or step into the paws of the wild canine for a narrative piece. The third option varies from week to week. Another option is given for students to submit their own idea to showcase the canine of the week. 

Schedule:
North America - 
Week of 1/22: Arctic Fox
Week of 1/29: Red Wolf
Week of 2/5: Grey Wolf
Week of 2/12: Coyote

Central/South America - 
Week of 2/19: Maned Wolf
Week of 2/26: Bush Dog
Week of 3/4: Crab-Eating Fox
Week of 3/4: Culpeo
Week of 3/11: Pampas Fox

Europe
Week of 3/18: - Eurasian Wolf

Africa - 
Week of 3/25: African Wild Dogs
Week of 4/1: Jackals
Week of 4/8:  African Golden Wolf
Week of 4/15: Ethiopian Wolf
Week of 4/22: Bat Eared Fox

Asia -
Week of 4/29: Corsac
Week of 5/6: Dhole
Week of 5/13: Tibetan Fox
Week of 5/20: Raccoon Dog

Australia 
Week of 5/27: Dingo


Includes:
-Live lessons
- Printable Passports
- Wild Canine Continent Newsletter 
- Wild Canine Writing Assignment Guide
-Bookmarks

Overview:
Introduction
Trivia
Canine of the Week
Game/Writing Time