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« on: March 09, 2012, 09:51:52 PM »

Okay, so for a while now I have been asking family and friends, as well as some BrillKid members to send postcards from wherever they are located to my daughter, in exchange for ones sent from us to their child/children...my 2-year-old is absolutely fascinated by receiving mail, and every evening after dinner we 'visit' a new country...she even gets a 'stamp' in her 'passport,'

When she gets postcards we have a special place for them and we carefully look each place up on her map and on the Internet to have a mini EK lesson...now she is addicted to a fantastic Montessori-style App called Introtogeo...

After reading Kimba15's blog on teaching geography I have been Inspired to make this into a regular project! (thanks Kimba 15, fantastic blog, fantastic map and we will be following your progress!). So my question is, does anybody out there in the BrillKids Worldwide Cultural Ether want to exchange postcards and learn about geography in this way with us?!  I am determined that my child will not fall into the typically American Pitfall/Stereotype of being geographically challenged LOL

If you are interested, please PM me as we will not want to post addresses here!  Let's keep it primarily simple, postcards with lovely landmarks adrressed to the kiddos!
I truly hope this piques your interest!

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« Reply #1 on: March 10, 2012, 01:48:50 AM »

If anyone wants to write H. here in Ohio, I will make sure he replies with a nice postcard. I'm sure he would want to get postcards from all around the world.

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« Reply #2 on: March 10, 2012, 02:32:39 AM »

For postcards from the jungles of Borneo (east Malaysia), you can PM me! smile  My boy can't write yet, so i'll send one on his behalf!

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« Reply #3 on: March 10, 2012, 02:39:46 AM »

This is a great idea! We are temporarily living in the Philippines right now, and will be traveling around Southeast Asia quite a bit in the next few months. Ella has been getting postcards and letters from the Little Passports program for the last several months so she already gets the idea. It will be exciting for her to have someone to write to as she travels to different countries herself. I don't have much time to write right now, but I will PM you guys to get your addresses soon!

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« Reply #4 on: March 10, 2012, 02:54:43 AM »

I am definantly in. This is a great idea and one I was thinking of. WOuldn't it be great if the kids could all eventually become penpals

Oh by the way Kerileanne99 thanks for following my blog. I hope I can impart more info soon. I'm hoping to do North America next or Oceania and slowly moving to Europe, Africa and Asia. It is alot of fun to do.

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« Reply #5 on: March 10, 2012, 07:10:02 AM »

We are in too!!! Great idea!

We are visiting Eastern Europe for the next couple of months, -- Ukraine, Serbia, Hungary! And my LOs LOVE LOVE LOVE  geography! They both can name all the countries we've been too, where our relatives and friends live ( we are talking in a few dozens, ha) and the first thing my daughter was asking her new friend on the airplane "which country you are from", she loves finding them on the map!

Love your ideas Kerry! We do tons of geography activities and always looking for new ones. My daughetr can not write yet, but she dictates to me when we write grandparents, so we will do that with the postcard too.

So, send me a PM with your address and we will return a postcard hoping to get one from each of you!

We can even call it BrillKids Geography Club,  yes ! Or Little Traveller Club  smile  We should come up with the name, what do you all think?

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« Reply #6 on: March 10, 2012, 08:48:09 AM »

Okay, so for a while now I have been asking family and friends, as well as some BrillKid members to send postcards from wherever they are located to my daughter, in exchange for ones sent from us to their child/children...my 2-year-old is absolutely fascinated by receiving mail, and every evening after dinner we 'visit' a new country...she even gets a 'stamp' in her 'passport,'

When she gets postcards we have a special place for them and we carefully look each place up on her map and on the Internet to have a mini EK lesson...now she is addicted to a fantastic Montessori-style App called Introtogeo...

After reading Kimba15's blog on teaching geography I have been Inspired to make this into a regular project! (thanks Kimba 15, fantastic blog, fantastic map and we will be following your progress!). So my question is, does anybody out there in the BrillKids Worldwide Cultural Ether want to exchange postcards and learn about geography in this way with us?!  I am determined that my child will not fall into the typically American Pitfall/Stereotype of being geographically challenged LOL

If you are interested, please PM me as we will not want to post addresses here!  Let's keep it primarily simple, postcards with lovely landmarks adrressed to the kiddos!
I truly hope this piques your interest!

Can sb please give me kimba's blog url?
Will pm you guys for this postcard exchange!


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« Reply #7 on: March 10, 2012, 09:05:50 AM »

Kimba's blog:  http://intellikidsdownunder.blogspot.com/

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« Reply #8 on: March 10, 2012, 09:42:50 AM »

What a great idea! We are in. Shall we write some basic info about our country on the cards?



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« Reply #9 on: March 10, 2012, 10:03:53 AM »

What a great idea! We are in. Shall we write some basic info about our country on the cards?



Good idea! I suggest we mention the age of our children in the pm too so that we can adapt the info according to age.
As my children cannot write yet I also wondered if It wouldnt be better to print the text off, paste it on the card and then sign. Would you mind? I am suggesting this as sometimes I cannot read my own  handwriting :-))
Btw:: is there somebody from Africa interested in exchanging?

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« Reply #10 on: March 10, 2012, 10:37:59 AM »

I am glad people are as excited as I am!  Hhhhmmm..I hadn't thought too much about the logistics, but definitely include the ages of your children in the PM. 
I think would be absolutely fine to type out a bit of text if you like EarlyLearning17!  This would be a great time saver and I think many of the kids aren't writing yet!  For the ones that are, it will be great practice and incentive yes
I think including some basic facts would be great too, if you are so inclined, but don't feel obligated! Some of the fun will be the differences and individuality of the cards.  I think it would be perfectly acceptable to only write something like, "Hello from your friend in X!"
And of course, some people are already friends already, so these will probably be a bit more personalized!

Oh! Just a thought.  I am always looking for small ways to interest my child in other languages, so it might be fun if you include a greeting in your native language, or if you know it from a place you are visiting nowink

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« Reply #11 on: March 10, 2012, 11:51:26 AM »

Happy to send postcards from Australia. I am sure I can add something interesting about this beautiful place too. Jaykob may write it...if he is in the mood LOL Otherwise I have two lovely  big girls who will get a kick out of it smile
One is already in the mail Wink  this could be an interesting experiment in the speed of the world postal service  too nowink

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« Reply #12 on: March 10, 2012, 12:51:53 PM »

This is a great idea - my DH set up a similar thing for my daughter through an adult website where they exchanged both postcards and gifts (at Christmas) and I used them a bit to teach geography, but it would be really nice to do it on here and send some brief info about our own countries with the postcards. Laurana is not yet up to writing postcards though she may sign her name if encouraged. I like the idea of greetings in other languages too. I am from South Africa.

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« Reply #13 on: March 10, 2012, 01:50:15 PM »

I love this idea and I am in. If anyone wants a postcard from a Nordic country, you can PM me.

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« Reply #14 on: March 10, 2012, 05:51:38 PM »

How lucky are we? after exchanging pms with only 6 fellow members, we have 5 continents covered! Although if we differentiate between North and South America, we are missing an exchange from South America.....anybody from there?

Thanks so much for bringing this great idea up! Who knows, maybe some of us will develop into a more regular penfriendship? If there is enough interest, maybe we could for example send out a new round of cards once we travel to nearby countries (which we are doing once a year). My postcards will be coming from Europe by the way...

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