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Exploring Community

First Graders Are Youngest Participants of StoryCorps Project
This spring, Grade 1 teacher Jennifer Wittmer embarked on her annual Post Office curriculum, integrating the disciplines of social studies, language arts and mathematics, while giving students a tangible way to explore and develop their understandings of the Quaker testimony of Community. For this year's Post Office project, students worked with StoryCorps, founded by Friends Seminary alumnus, David Isay '83. StoryCorps collects and archives stories from people all over the world "to build connections between people and create a more just and compassionate world."

First graders recorded their own interviews with Grandparents and Special Friends to contribute to StoryCorps' Great Thanksgiving Listen. They were the youngest students ever to participate in the program! Isay visited the class to speak with students and accept a donation to StoryCorps — the proceeds from the sale of stamps and other letter-writing materials created and sold by the class.
 
 
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