Blog Shift

After a long hiatus, I  have returned to this blog.  While Project Postcard is still active, I have shifted my focus to other aspects of my classroom.

Small group reading:
This is perhaps my favorite part of the day.  My fifth grade groups are steadily working their way through various novels.  One group is in the middle of the Arena in Hunger Games, another just found out Sirius Black and Peter Pettigrew's secret in the third Harry Potter, the third group is rebelling against the Capitol in Mockingjay and my fourth group just entered the Vile Village and are quickly unraveling the secrets of the VFD (Series of Unfortunate Events).

However, larger class sizes next year will need additional novels to accommodate extra students.  Please consider donating to my class on donorschoose here.  All donations are tax deductible and you'll get a snazzy thank you from some wonderful ten year-olds!

February Updates

US Map

World Map

New England Region

Southern Region (and extra Washington DC)

Midwest

Midwest

Northwest Region

West Coast

Southwest 

Map Update 3

Our map as of late January!  (February updates coming soon!)

Can you find your postcard?

New Post Cards, New Adventures

We recently received postcards from friends, family and strangers from around the world.

Next week we are looking forward to visiting the Midwest Region and placing our new Nebraska postcard on the map!  We also received a postcard from the Dominican Republic, so that will be added to our world map and provide us with an opportunity to review land forms and science definitions. (We will be clarifying the difference between islands and peninsulas).

Keep the post cards coming!

Map Update 2

I wanted to once again express my appreciation for those of you who have sent post cards!  We've received post cards from near and far; from friends and strangers all in the name of learning!

Once we receive the post cards, we talk about the fun facts on the back and post the cards on our map(s)!  We then go "visit" using Google Earth :)