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April 22, 2004
Elementary School Teachers
Fairfax County, Virginia
Dear Third, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Grade Teachers:
Free! A teacher workshop/seminar on Lewis and Clark: Literacy, History, and Geography through postage stamps. This workshop is among the events scheduled during the National Philatelic Exhibitions of Washington, DC, Inc. (NAPEX) annual stamp show. Mark your calendar for Saturday, June 5, from 8:30 am to 2 pm at the McLean Hilton at Tysons Corner, 7920 Jones Branch Drive, McLean, Virginia.
During this session, you will learn the five W's of using stamps, postcards, and other stamp-related materials to energize the young people in your classroom and community in basic skills. This seminar will also steer you through the Lewis and Clark voyage of discovery of plants, animals, people, and places through postal items, and show you how to share the best of this journey without spending big $$$. Invest a Saturday and master the art of stamps in the classroom.
Kim Kowalczyk and I will conduct this seminar. National stamp educator, Kim Kowalczyk, is the Director of Education at the American Philatelic Society, a 50,000-member national stamp collecting organization. I am a master teacher, stamp collector, author, and radio stamp talk show host. Together, we have developed a series of successful stamps in the classroom programs. The NAPEX Lewis and Clark seminar is the latest in this series.
Each of our seminars shows how to use stamps and other mail-related items successfully with students in grades 3-8. Faculty and students alike embrace the program's novel approach, with applications that include mathematics, language skills, and social studies. These successful programs have introduced stamps as a teaching tool throughout the United States. And you, too, can share in the success of this exciting teaching tool by signing up for the NAPEX workshop, Saturday June 5.
Don't delay, attendance is limited! Sign up or ask for more details by contacting NAPEX seminar coordinator Pat Lehmann, dlehmann@erols.com , 703-875-5767 daytime, or 703-820-8573 evenings and weekends. I can answer program questions at nbc@cape.com, (508) 428-9132, or Post Office Box 427, Marstons Mills, MA 02648.
Come discover stamps and the role that tangible postal material can play in making history, geography, art, math, and language arts fun, exciting, and real for the young people in your classroom and community!
BONUS: At the end, as a graduate, you will leave with a treasure bag of materials postal material, album, lesson plans, and a CD-ROM of topical stamp images with a minimum value of $25! All this for only $15.
Sincerely,
Nancy B. Clark
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