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Postcard Exchange
By MsPropel

Last year was the first year I did a postcard exchange. It was great and my kids loved it! For most exchanges, you will send out 49 postcards. One to a classroom in each state. I sent mine out all at the same time last
year. It was easier for me that way. After receiving a few postcards, we began to make a list of some of things we'd like to put on our postcards. Once we narrowed it down, we put it in letter form together. I typed up the letter we made and printed it onto labels. I also typed the addresses onto lables.

We got some postcards that the kids had written themselves, some were

more informative than others.

Ours had A LOT (probably too much) of information. I had to make the font super small. Most people tell a little about their state or the town they live in, like the state bird, tree, flower, the city they are near, or any other information they'd like to put. Here is what our postcards said:

Dear Friends,
We live in Pennsylvania. Our state capital is Harrisburg. Our state bird is the Ruffed Grouse. Other animals that live in our state are skunks, snakes, groundhogs, turtles, deer, squirrels, frogs, chipmunks, freshwater fish, and lots of different birds.
We live in the city of Pittsburgh, home of the Superbowl Champion STEELERS! We also cheer for Penguin Hockey, Pirate Baseball, and the University of Pittsburgh Panthers. In Pittsburgh there is a place called The Point. This is where the Allegheny, the Ohio, and the Monongahela Rivers meet. We live near an amusement park called Kennywood and a waterpark called Sandcastle. We have our school picnics there.
We go to a Pre-K to 8th grade school. Our classroom has 20 students. Our principal is going to eat a fried worm omelet if every student in our school reads 4,500 minutes by March.
We love getting postcards from all over the country. Each time we get one, we sing a song called “Fifty, Nifty, United States”. We hope to get your postcard soon!

I told you it was long! :o Hope this helped!!