Paola's Horse Project - Posted by Paola

I am doing research about horses and I want to post my projects here on the blog. I will write about some famous horses, races as well as different breeds. My favorite books are about horses so I will also post some book reports here.

Here I am making a Red Rum project. I am setting up

the horses.

Here I am painting the jumps so they look like bushes.

The red colored horse with a black mane is Red Rum.

The horse that is jumping is supposed to be Crisp.

As you might have read in the story Red Rum's Life  Crisp almost beat Red Rum.

Red Rum - Part 1, Posted by Paola

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Red Rum's Life
Lets find out about the first horse ever to win the Grand National more than once.


Red Rum was born May 3, 1965. His sire's name was Quorum and his dam's name was Mared. Red Rum was a famous racehorse. He achieved an unmatched historic memory when he won the Grand National.


He raced the years 1973,1974, and 1977.


In 1973 he beat the great Australian racer Crisp who carried 23 pounds. Crisp lead for almost the whole race until Red Rum caught about 20 yards from the finish. It was considered the best Grand National in history.


In his first two victories Red Rum was ridden by Brian Fletcher. In 1975 when L'escargot was victorious Fletcher was blamed for costing him wins by holding Red Rum back.


In 1976 Tommy Stack replaced Fletcher but was held back by Rag Trade. The following year Stack rode Red Rum to his third triumphant victory in the Grand National. It was considered one of the greatest moments in British sporting history.


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Red Rum - Part 2

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The Most Loved Horse
Red Rum became one of the most loved horses in the United Kingdom and Ireland. He also became a celebrity opened supermarkets and lead Grand National parades. He was liked so much he was put on playing cards, mugs, posters, models, pain tings, and jigasaw puzzles.


See my Red Rum Project


Books have been written about him by his trainer, jockeys, and author Ivor Herbert. Children's books about his life have been written by Christine Pemperton. Red Rum opened the Steeple Chase. It is a rollercoster ride with 3 tracks. It was designed by arrow dynamics Rum's hoof print is at the exit.


Red Rum was bred at Rossenarra Stud in Kells. Bred to win one mile races he won four miles and four furlongs. He started running cheap races and dead heated in 5 furlongs at the Aintree racetrack. In his early career he was ridden by Lester Peggot.


 One day Red Rum slipped when the Liverpool car dealer Ginger McCain pulled up. MacCain bought him from his vet Noelle Mare and famously trained the horse on the sand of Southport Merseyside. He was mad when he found out Red Rum was lame. MacCain who also won the Grand National in 2004 with Amberliegh House took Red Rum for a swim before every Grand National.


Sadly Red Rum Suffered from a deliberately incurable bone disease. He died on the 18, Oct. and was buried at the winning post of the Aintree racetrack.


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Red Rum- Part 3

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What Things Are

What is a Sire?

A sire is the dad of a foal( a baby horse). A dam is a mom of a foal.

Grand National

The Grand National is a famous race held at Aintree England. It is run at a distance about 4 miles and 856 yards and has 30 fences to be jumped. It is always held an a Saturday of April.

Furlongs

The name furlong comes from an old English word furth ( furrow) and lang (long). Dating back to the ninth century it referred to the length of a furrow in a one acre long field. The system arose from turning a team of oxen with a heavy plow was hard.

Racehorse

A racehorse is a horse that races against fast horses on a racetrack.

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New Semester

This blog is going to be about daily life of the Pedrantis and it will focus on home schooling mostly. I believe you never stop learning so to us schooling could be going places for examples...

Paola and Alexander put together their own learning list in the beginning of the school year. They wrote down what they wanted to learn this year and we will go down the list and learn about their choices. We also have regular classes but I have realized that you can take the things the children are interested in and incorporate language art, social studies, spelling etc in a fun way. It makes it more fun than studying 30 words for a spelling test. Paola and Alexander can now sit for hours with the projects and tey learn to read and process information in a fun way.

Paola wants to learn about horses so she is currently learning about famous race horses and we will post her project on this site.. This project will teach her to research a subject and to take notes about the important things as well as reading, writing, art and computer skills.

Alexander is really interested in dinosaurs. He reads many dinosaur books, take notes, make his own time line and learn about his favorite dinosaurs. Alex will also learn how to research a subject and to take notes about important things. All of a sudden writing and reading is not boring because it is about his very favorite things in the world.