Well, yesterday we wrote the letter to all the tourism departments and addressed all the envelopes. Today, we stuffed all the envelopes and put them in the mail!
This is what our letter said:
To Whom It May Concern:
My name is ______ and I am 10 years old. I am writing to you on behalf of myself, my sister ____ (5) and my brother _____ (4). We are homeschooled in Iowa. We are starting a project where we want to learn all about the fifty states. We are going to do a blog about all the things that we learn. We were hoping that you might be able to send us some information on your state. We would appreciate anything you could send us. Thank you so much.
We also gave everyone the website address of our blog so we're hoping maybe a few of them will check in on us! Mom has heard from a few of her high school friends and we know we have postcards from California and Maine on the way! If anyone would like a postcard from Iowa, let us know. We'd love to send you one!
We're getting very excited about this project. We don't really have any set plans on what we're going to do. We're just going to take it day by day and have fun with it!
We're also going to start exploring our home state. We're wanting to visit different cities and landmarks around the state. One of our dad's friends is a State Senator so we're hoping to go to the Capitol building soon to look around. Mom is still deciding whether to have a separate blog for our Iowa adventures or combine them on this blog.
This is a wonderful idea. We will be checking in often.
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