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tulip activities

Sue Haines (sehaines@gwi.net)
Sun, 16 Mar 1997 21:06:31 -0500

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Dear Julie and Elizabeth -
I teach 4th grade and we are enjoying locating on our map the places where
tulips have emerged and/or blossomed. I have the kids just put a dot on the
state which is mentioned because I feel it could take forever to find some
of the cities. Longitude and latitude would help, but I realize the
difficulties of doing that, and it would probably take us ages to locate
those, too! However, with large states (CA or TX) that would be more
accurate. The exchange has been a bit frustrating for me because I
initially wrote the letter (we had no e-mail at school). I addressed it to
10 or so schools and only one responded - in the same state as us. This
hasn't been bad exactly because we are learning about our state (ME), but I
think the guessing would have been more fun, and it would be interesting now
to be corresponding with someone in a different location . Now that we have
nearly guessed where the school is, what they say is essentially the same
for us. However, starting tomorrow we have internet access in our room so
the kids can write themselves and see the web pages.
a question - do you have any idea how well represented the various states
are in your program? In other words we have observed that there are a lot
of robins in NC, but not too many in nearby states. Is that because those
states don't have robins or don't have e-mail or aren't involved with JN?
Sue Haines

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