I swiped this from my sister Alicia's FB post, who swiped it from someone else, etc.
I know I have readers in Missouri and Wisconsin, and a few in Canada... want to help educate some second graders on how far the power of the internet reaches?
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I'm in! Will you post the results at the end of the challenge? It will be interesting to see how many are collected world wide. I have a friend in the UK and many are scattered around the country. I'll pass this message along to others.
ReplyDeleteOn a somewhat related note: When DS's oldest daughter was 12, her middle school class participated in a Flat Stanley challenge. A dear friend attended Obama's first inauguration, and Flat Stanley accompanied her. DGD got extra points for Flat Stanley's attendance to that event.
Wow! What a cool event for Flat Stanley! We had Flat Stanley go on a trail walk, to symphony practice, etc., but we didn't make it to an inauguration. Good they gave her extra credit!
DeleteI will pass along results IF I happen to see them. Since I picked this up online, I have no idea if the results will show up in the same place!
Have my card ready to mail off. What a great challenge! Will pass it on!
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Thanks for helping spread the word, and for the card. These things can be very educational.
DeleteI will send one off too, that will be one from Canada at least and I will post it on my facebook page. I am sure there will be a few more from there too.
ReplyDeleteThat's great! Hope the kids are surprised, pleasantly! I have mine all ready to drop in the mail today, from their state capital city.
DeleteCount NJ in!
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DeleteI dont have a FB account, so dumb question: How do I know if my state is already represented? Or are they not updating things as the cards arrive?
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Oh, good heavens, this was just shared as is. I have no idea if we'll ever find out the results! There isn't an interactive map or anything, this is a very small rural school. I just sent mine on faith, and my sister encouraged her Canadian friends to send from their provinces, and I think we might just be getting one to them from Australia. I believe they are old school posting on a paper map of the US and the world!
DeleteSis went looking, by the way, to see if she could find the original post-er, to ask some of these kinds of questions (we don't even have the teacher's name, just the school and town and that it's second grade). So we're doing this on faith. And I bet they'd be thrilled to get one from your state. I'd be curious, myself, to see the distribution of which states sent the most. I'm quite sure they'll get a whole lot from our home state.
Kind of like when I was a kid and put my address on a card attached to a helium balloon and felt blessed that someone actually found the balloon in a field and wrote me back.
1. The post was made to Sutherland Public Schools’ Facebook page 5 days ago. Their profile pic is an anchor graphic in red and white at the moment.
ReplyDelete2. They have 26 second graders.
3. I agree with OKM, that this is likely a map on a wall that they are doing.
4. I am hopeful the page will post results, so I “liked” it. Hope their community has fun with it, even if it’s surprisingly overwhelming!
Thanks!
DeleteYes, thank you!
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My contribution goes in the mail today, coming from the small post office in Eastern Passage, Nova Scotia, Canada. I hope the kids and their teacher have great fun learning about the world around them!
ReplyDeleteI am thrilled! I think it's so important for kids to grow up knowing that there are people, good, hard-working people, raising their families... all over the globe. When I was a kid, my dad was in charge of hosting international visitors in our town. They would come to our house and have a meal, go to my uncle's farm and see how farming in Nebraska compared to how they knew farming to be done in their own lands, that sort of thing. In the process, we (kids) learned about their families in India, or Nigeria, or Japan, or wherever. It really broadened my view of the world. I exchanged letters with some of their children.
DeleteI do hope this experience does something of the same for the children in that classroom. Because good people live everywhere!
Mine is in the mail today -- a unicorn from Seattle....
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