Tiger of the Snows: Tenzing Norgay

Pictures of the notebook are coming, sorry, busy planting a garden!
Tiger of the Snows: Tenzing Norgay: The boy whose dream was Everest

Geography:

• Mt. Everest (Fact sheet, Majestic Mt Everest at Timeforkids.com, more facts)
  

• Where are the Himalayas? (Blackline map, Nepal, flag of Nepal, Nepal coloring sheet from crayola.com, Where is Nepal from HSS)
  

• Tenzing Norgay ran away to Katmandu as a child. Where is Katmandu? Locate on a map.

Language arts:

• Here are some vocabulary, add to this list as we are reading: crevasses, blizzards, agleam, cascading, chasms, surveryor, descend See the vocabulary list at Scholastic
  

• Describe what you think it looked like on the peak. Draw a picture to go along with it. (Notebooking pages)
  

History/Social Studies:

• Reaching the peak of Mt. Everest: On May 29, 1953 Tenzing Norgay along with Edmund Hillary were the firstclimbers ever to reach the peak of Mt. Everest, the worlds highest mountain. Read about Everest at this Scholastic site.
• Read about Tenzing Norgay also
  

Social Studies:

• What is a Sherpa? (Meet the Sherpas at Scholastic)
  

• In the story Tenzing Norgay unfurled four flags on the peak. They were the flags of the United Nations, India, Great Britain and Nepal. Discover why he unfurled those flags.

• In the book Mt. Everest is referred to as Chomolungma, Chomolungma is the Tibetan and Sherpa name for Mt. Everest which means "Goddess Mother of the Earth"

Science:

• There is a reference to "belled yaks" in the book. Why do you think the Yaks have bells on them? Research Yaks. (Yak printout at EL)
  

Internet:

• Here is a Mt. Everest Webquest
• Everestquest

Art:

Song

• In 2003 D-13 and M-11 studied Mt. Everest on the 50th anniversary of the date the peak was first reached, together we wrote a short "song" to help us remember the facts. When I pulled out the book the both immediately sang the song they had written 5 years before, with one change. (rather than 50 years ago they changed it to 55 years ago). Sang to the tune of "Jesus Loves Me")

Mt Everest is in China,
and is in Nepal too.
Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay
climbed the peak one cool May day.
Fifty-five years ago,
in 19-53
They climbed the Himalayan Peak
of 29, 035 feet.