Howdy folks once again from rural Paraguay!

Have you ever wondered how you can help a small school in the middle of nowhere Paraguay learn about geography? Of course you have!

So here is one way that you can help out. Here are two pictures of a boy and a girl (thanks to the website flatstanley.com) that you can use in this effort. They were colored by 2 of the students from my 4th grade class and selected by the whole class as the best.

So what do I ask you to do?

1. Print out one or both of the pictures here (preferably in color)

2. Cut out the image (boy or girl)

3. Take a picture of the boy and or girl at some place interesting or representative of where you live or are visiting.

4. Send the picture to me at bpattullo@gmail.com which I will then print out and put on the wall of the classroom around our maps.

5. When you send the photos please tell us a little about was taken. For example: What is the place famous for? What foods do people like there? What is the weather like in the different seasons? What sports are most popular? What do people do for fun? How many people live there (more or less)?

Seriously, this is coming from a VERY small town where the majority of the kids have never been the 40 kilometers to the paved road. What they know of the world is what they see on TV. Reading is not very common so photos have an incredible value out here. The value of anything that they can see is indescribable. No matter where you are in the world if you have some time to do this it would be greatly appreciated. I’ve printed out a few photos from the states as well as from my travels abroad and shown them around, later other kids have shown up at my house asking to see them. So, no matter how boring you may think your ordinary life/community may be it is drastically different and incredibly interesting to the kids here.

I will present the photos and whatever information you may provide in the class  and put them on the wall to show the different parts of the world for our world map project.

As for a timeline, I’m leaving this community December 5th, so if you’re reading this or contemplating sending anything after mid November 2011, thanks but you’re too late!

If you have any problems with printing the pictures or anything please let me know and I will email you the pictures. Thank you all for your support for this!

I should also thank my sister Christy and niece Chloe for inviting me to share in their flatstanley project and giving me the idea to use it here.

Happy travels!

Here are a few pics of our map projects

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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