Remember being in 3rd grade?
Two Greenlee County third-graders were among 14 selected statewide to have their artwork celebrating their home state printed and offered for sale as postcards.
Imagine you were a winner in the AZ 3rd grade postcard contest and your teacher didn't tell you. Cassandra Hernandez surprised her student, Skylar James, when the YouTube announcement video played and her name was announced. "Her eyes lit up and the whole classroom went crazy," Hernandez said.
AHS invited third graders across the state to creatively celebrate Arizona through the 5 Cs, historical events, landscapes, people or animals. Teachers from participating classes selected one entry to submit to the historical society, where a panel of retired teachers used a rubric to select 18 finalists before narrowing that number down to 14 winners.
The winners' entries will be turned into postcards that will be available in the gift shop of the Arizona History Museum.
Each student also will also receive a visit from historical society representatives for an award presentation and a classroom pizza party. Winners will receive a gift bag, and their teachers will receive a gift as well.
Kristen Rex, AHS vice president of education, said the contest is aimed at third graders because that is the earliest grade in which history and social studies are introduced into the school curriculum. The reason for encouraging the student to design postcards is actually linked to Arizona history: Early settlers didn't have cell phones and computers, so they frequently communicated via penny postcards.
Dates for the pizza parties haven't been set yet, but Duncan's Barker acknowledged it's going to be a big deal for her pupil Addie.
"She's very excited," Barker said.Full story at https://www.eacourier.com/.../article_950126de-fb9f-11ef...
