Greetings from the fourth grade class at Bethel Elementary School, North Carolina.  I am Julia Sherril a student teacher from Appalachian State University.  During my student teaching experience at Bethel School I am trying ways of engaging students into Social Studies besides just using a textbook.  Here is where we can really use your help!  Inside this package you will find MacGuire, "Mac" for short, our North Carolina State bird.  He is on a journey all over North Carolina to help us learn more about the geography and how our community compares with others.  Here's where you come in:
    1.  When you recieve Mac, take his picture in some seeting in your community and send that picture to us (address below) or
    2.  Send us a post card of something important, historical, etc. unique to your community. (address below)
    3.  After sending us only the picture and/or postcard, you mail Mac to relatives/friends who live in a different county with this letter tucked inside so they wil know what to do with him.  As we get the pictures, we will plot his course and this will springboard our study of how to help children learn about the state of North Carolina in perhaps a different manner.

We appreicate your interest and help and say a big "Thank You" in advance for your cooperation in our project.  The class will end our work in the beginning of May, so Mac will need to "fly" pretty quickly in his travels.  If the family who has a vist from Mac near the end of April would send him back to us at the address below, we would be most grateful.  I'm sure when he arrives back in Boone, he will have many wonderful stoies to share about some of the nicest people in the N.C.

Enclosed in the package is also a picture of the fourth grade class.  Send our picture along with Mac and his travels.

Thank You,
Julia Sherrill
138 Bethel School Rd.
Sugar Grove, N.C. 28679-9633