Dear Bobby,

In the next few monthes (about 3 monthes)I can prepare you a selection
of the most important landshells from my zone and other parts of
Europe, which you can show to children and talk about this.
The donation for the meeting in june or july will go out at
beginning of next month.
with best shelling greetings
Helmut from Innsbruck ([log in to unmask]), at the moment using
the computer of the museum



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Von: Bobbi Cordy [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 17. Januar 2001 05:07
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Betreff: Re: AW: Re: Introducing myself


We go into many classrooms every year to teach about shells.  There is VERY
little in the science textbooks about  shells.   AND yet it is the second
largest animal kingdom after insects???

The teachers really get excited about this subject....especially since it is
locally something the children should learn about!    We often bring the
classes
into our shell room for shell talk and hands on!  We always have shells for
the
children to take with them or supply their classroom with a variety of
examples
of different families.

We have stacks of "adorable" letters from the children thanking us for doing
this!

It certainly is a highlight of being able to share that knowledge with
children
of all ages.

We started a Junior Club in our Shell Club and it did well with about 6
children
each meeting.  But the children soon got involved in sports and other stuff
in
school and didn't have time for it.   We will start it up again when we have
some more children who are interested!

Bobbi