Letter+of+Invitation

Julia Poole Secondary ICT/Applied Skills Helping Teacher Curriculum and Instructional Services Cnetre 7532 - 134A Street Surrey, BC V32 7J1 January 31, 2008

Letter of Introduction**
 * Olympic Mascot Project

Hello!

I would like to invite you to participate in a writing project in preparation for the upcoming Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. The project will involve the three Olympic mascots, Quatchi, Sumi and Miga, traveling around the world to the classrooms of those participating in the project. The schools participating will take the opportunity to explore the adventures of the Olympic mascots and meet other children around the world who are learning about the Vancouver 2010 Olympic events.

The project will encourage the participants to write about what they are learning, the discovery of the locations in which the mascots have traveled, and what they have done with the classrooms they had visited. It is designed after the popular Canadian Flat Stanley writing project and Ms Spree Forest Doll from Grossraeschen, Germany.

The project will begin in Surrey, BC where the students will mail the flat Mascots to their first destination in Germany. The receiving class will email the sender to confirm that the mascots have arrived safely and will go online to the wikispace to document what date the mascots arrived, mark the Google map and post a photo of the activities the mascots have done so far. The mascots will remain with the class for two weeks after which they will be sent to the next destination. During this time the classroom teacher will use the suggested activities to assist in the learning and writing project (see page 2). Tracking the adventures is part of the continued fun of the project. Thank you for participating in the project and supporting the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games,

Julia Poole

Project Developer poole_j@sd36.bc.ca http://fcweb.sd36.bc.ca/~poole_j/