Hopefully the arrival of these cards leads to pop-up geography lessons because the kids want to learn more about each country or state. That's my little unschooling dream at any rate.
Map courtesy of Worldpress.org.
Friday, March 9, 2012
Postcrossing
The kids and I signed up with postcrossing this afternoon. We'll send and receive post cards around the world! Our first five cards are being mailed to people in Russia, The Netherlands, Belarus, Germany, and Missouri. (There is an option to receive cards only from people outside of your home country, but I thought it'd be nice to have a quicker postal turnover rate for some of them.) The site maps everything for you, and just looks really cool. Bonnie plans on starting a little scrap book and mapping all of our cards on the wall.
Hopefully the arrival of these cards leads to pop-up geography lessons because the kids want to learn more about each country or state. That's my little unschooling dream at any rate.
Hopefully the arrival of these cards leads to pop-up geography lessons because the kids want to learn more about each country or state. That's my little unschooling dream at any rate.
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I signed on, too. This is an ideal "writing for real" opportunity.
ReplyDeleteOur first card was received... yay! Shockingly, it was the one sent to Missouri. Now we wait for our first one to arrive here.
ReplyDeleteThis is SO COOL!!!!!
ReplyDeleteWe've now signed up and are mailing out our first five post cards to: Indonesia, The Netherlands, Germany, Russia, and China!
Have fun with it, Karen. We've received about 15 now from all over. It's a lot fun to check the PO each day.
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