Postcard Exchange/geograpy lessons

[seastar]

I'm in too. While it's unlikely that any of you are teaching your children Irish, I can definitely include cúpla focal as Gaeilge (a couple of words in Irish). Great idea Keri!

[bella]

count me in from Africa , not native but well almost , been there for the last 20 years  . what i did for geography : made a huge wall hanging could be put on the floor map of the continents color coded the montessori way , thank i had those plastic drawers trolleys five each , added to one of them to create one trolley with one drawer for each continent , and it has been our treasure box , any time we find something receive something from a continent we just file it in the assigned drawer . i labelled each drawer with the name of the continent and a small sandpaper shape of the continent . i put in postcards, coins , souvenirs books i found about the continent , now i am adding notes about sites so we remember to visit them when we are working on a specific country , also toob animals and those are so good i really recommend buying them , i started out with schleich but they are not cheap , i could buy a whole toob of 10 animals for the price of one schleich. kids love them . instead of playing pretend play with princesses and pirates , now i find them setting up scenes from various countries .
now we are working on our north america drawer , i got two toobs for it , it started with a simple book about cowboys and now this book found a place in our NA drawer .
I am happy to send postcards from our side of the world , maybe also coins would be good exchange ???
viv

[Skylark]

Bella, really nice ideas about continent drawers! We are going to do that!

[early learning17]

That was fun, ours are on the way!
Should take two to four weeks, so please pm me if they havent arrived by mid april!
I definitely recommend printing the text off: with font size 11 and a bigger line spacing we could just about say what we wanted to say in a first post card ;-) I will pm you the text in advance as we suggested that parents show some images or maybe even a youtube video of the famous things of our country ;-)

Still missing sb from South America and also the address of our representative of North America....that would be you, DadDude ;-)

Cheers

[ruamulla]

am in from Saudi Arabia.
we are excited. plz Pm me the address.

[awan22]

Hi everybody
Great idea
If somebody is interesting to exchange with us, just let me know
We are now in California but can also send from France or Poland.
Blessings

[Mandabplus3]

We have a couple to send out, my kids are getting quite enthusiastic because Nana is overseas at the moment and we took her to the airport. Nothing like great timing to kick of some education hey!

[ShenLi]

Please include us! We're in Malaysia - the peninsula (SE Asia). PM me if you would like a postcard from here...

[Dr Miles R Jones]

The postcard exchange is a great idea!  It makes foreign countries real to the child not just abstractions.

[noureldeen]

http://www.worksheetworks.com/geography.html
i wish this can help too

[kauaiheidi]

We would love to exchange postcards.  We live in Hawaii.

[Kimba15]

I have sent two cards out last night and I have one more to send. If you would like a postcard from my family please pm your address and you can have mine.

[Stodd]

We would like to exchange postcards too. Is that too late? Please let me know.
We are from Wisconsin, US.

[Kerileanne99]

Thanks so much everybody, I am so glad people are having so much fun with this! I hope it continues to grow and our kids continue to learn from each other

I just returned from holiday and am playing catchup.  I think I have emailed everyone, but if I happened to miss anyone, please know it was not intentional and send me a PM!

At least half of the postcards have already been sent and the rest will go out on Monday when the postal service resumes!

Cheers and I hope many more people will decide to take part

[CVMomma]

This is a wonderful idea!  Maybe my daughter is too young to understand geography yet, but I would save the cards and use them as she gets older.  This will be a great way to introduce  the subject to her and learn more myself

Bella, you had a great plan for your children's geography lessons!!

If I want to do this, am I just supposed to message all the others who wanted to participate, or would it be more polite to just say that I would like to do this and wait for others to message me?   

I am from Oregon (high desert region) by the way.

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