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Great Mail Race

by Cheryl

Feb 26, 2007

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I am the SLMS in a 4-6 Intermediate school in NY. One of
my 4th grade teachers is interested in participating in the
Great Mail Race. If you would like to help her out please
contact me. Thanks.

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Lisa Marta /blockquote>

I'm curious what exactly the envelope is suppose to say because all of my kids
letters are being returned to me as undeliverable.

Lisa Marta

On 4/26/07, Stacey McInnes wrote:
> On 2/26/07, Cheryl wrote:
>> I am the SLMS in a 4-6 Intermediate school in NY. One of
>> my 4th gra...See More

May 28, 2007

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Eric Taccogna On 5/03/07, Stacey McInnes wrote: > Good morning, Vanessa. I just thought I would tell you that I > received a letter addressed the same way that you indicated in > your e-mail to me. The letter that we received was actually > addressed to the small town next to our small town, but it > detoured, as that school closed a year ago. I w...See More

Sep 17, 2009

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Kavita I recently also received a letter and would like to participate. My students have already chosen cities and written their letters. I am wondering if anyone has a "teacher" letter or introductory letter that goes with it. It seems that we have lost our model.

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May 25, 2010

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smm On 5/25/10, Kavita wrote: > I recently also received a letter and would like to > participate. My students have already chosen cities and > written their letters. I am wondering if anyone has > a "teacher" letter or introductory letter that goes with it. > It seems that we have lost our model. > > Thanks

Here's one...I...See MoreOn 5/25/10, Kavita wrote: > I recently also received a letter and would like to > participate. My students have already chosen cities and > written their letters. I am wondering if anyone has > a "teacher" letter or introductory letter that goes with it. > It seems that we have lost our model. > > Thanks

Here's one...I wrote it following another teacher's model:

Dear Grade 4 Teacher,

Our class is participating in “The Great Canadian Mail Race” in which letters are exchanged between Grade 4 students across our country. We received a letter from a student in a Grade 4 class in ...., ON, that had received a letter from ..., BC. They received a letter from Aylmer, ON, who received a letter from Dartmouth, NS, who received a letter from Calgary, AB, who received a letter from Rosemary, AB, who received a letter from St- Foy, PQ…and now a student from our class is writing to your class with the hope that your students will reply.

This is how the Great Canadian Mail Race works: 1. Read my student’s letter to your class. 2. Have one of your students respond to my student by sending a letter back to us. 3. Ask all of you students to choose a different town or city in Canada, and send a letter to other Grade 4 students. We used the atlas to find towns, and the internet to get school addresses. 4. Enclose an explanatory letter like this one with each of your student’s letters. 5. The student who receives the quickest reply is the winner of the race in your school.

Hopefully, your class will enjoy having the chance to write and send letters. Many of my students had never sent an ‘old- fashioned’ letter through the mail. It’s great opportunity to learn about other kids and other places in Canada.

We connected this activity to our work in Social Studies and, of course, letter-writing. The students practised their peer-editing and proofreading skills, so there are certainly some errors in their writing. Most of my students speak a language other than English as their first language.

Perhaps you won’t have time to participate in the full race activity, but I hope that you’ll be able to at least have one student respond to the letter from our class.

Thank you, and have fun.

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May 27, 2010

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hjknjlmjl On 5/03/07, Stacey McInnes wrote: > Good morning, Vanessa. I just thought I would tell you that I > received a letter addressed the same way that you indicated in > your e-mail to me. The letter that we received was actually > addressed to the small town next to our small town, but it > detoured, as that school closed a year ago. I w...See More

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