Tuesday, 9 April 2013

New Zealand Postcard Exchange




I’ve been spending quite a bit of time lately on teaching Rocket Boy about the world and other countries and even managed to get friends and family to send us some postcards from many different countries – more about that on a post to come soon.  But I haven’t spent much time on our own country New Zealand.

It is very important to me that my children know about our own country and culture just as much if not more than other rest of the world.  New Zealand is also full of small country towns that even I don’t know much about.

I’ve posted on some New Zealand home schooling Facebook pages today and had 4 responses so far but hoping for a lot more.  My dream is to have a large group of people who want to participate and we all send and receive one postcard each week.  This will help keep costs down as well as keep the kids interested for longer.

I think I might need to open this up to those you don’t home school to get the numbers I really want and to cover more of the country.

Are you interested in joining this swap?


I thought I would add that this isn’t about the kids writing to each other, unless you want your child to do the writing.  It’s more about the actual postcards and learning more about the town/cities they come from





2 comments:

  1. Are you still interested in a postcard swap within NZ? Or maybe even a penpal or 2 or 3? I have 2 children (7 and 8) I've just started homeschooling who would love to send and receive postcards and letters. I also have a 3 year old and a 1 year old.

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  2. got a small group started 2 weeks ago, not too late to join in. Just email me at homeschoolingaoteroa@gmail.com with your name, kids names, and address and i'll add you to the group :)

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