Amy Del Gatto

Posted on 8/25/11

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Hi,

I am a kindergarten teacher from Chicago and this is the
second year I am organizing a 50 states Christmas card
exchange. I am posting a message today because I am
currently looking for a teacher from Colorado to join our
project.

Fifty teachers (one from each state) and several possible
military base schools from around the world (they only
require a regular stamp to send mail to them too) will
participate in the 2011 exchange. Teachers will be chosen
simply by whoever responds first. I teach kindergarten, but
I am opening up the exchange to any classrooms in grades K-
3.

Each teacher will send approximately 50 cards (depending on
how many military base schools sign up) and they will
receive that many in return. Cards can be store bought or
homemade. Along with your card I ask each teacher to
prepare a little letter about your classroom as well as a
few facts about your state. Last year I really enjoyed this
project and my students learned so much about the United
States (and Japan too because of our Air Force base
participant). I had over half of the teachers from last
year sign up again immediately to join the project.

As people reserve their spot/state I am typing all of the
addresses in to an Avery label format in Microsoft Word so
all you have to do is print the labels and send the cards!

I am planning on emailing the label format sheets to all
teachers during the first week in November and I am asking
all teachers to mail their cards no later than the last
week in November. I want all teachers to be able to enjoy
all of their cards throughout the entire month of December.

Last year I printed a large map of the United States (I can
send you link to a free one) and I made a huge bulletin
board surrounded with cards. We colored in the states one
by one as we received our cards. My kids learned so much
during this project last year and my parents loved hearing
about the “states of the day”.

If you would like to participate please e-mail me at
Amykdel2 at aol dot com with the following info:

STATE where you teach (first please):

Teacher's name:
School name:
School mailing address

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