Oh wow, I really wish I knew your username so I could thank you in person!!! (I don't see it anywhere and it wasn't on the shipping label ... please comment or PM me if this was you! I would love to send you thank-you cards!)

I teach in rural Alaska, in a town of 200 people. It's off the road system and accessible only by bush-plane. Getting supplies into town is hard, and the cost of shipping is a bitch. Because of this, I wasn't even sure I would get matched with anyone. He or she might have given up because the package took a wicked long time to get here ... BUT IT DID!

Demo-wise, my kids are poor, mostly Native Alaskan. Lots of them are being raised by grandparents. They are wild and crazy and (as you will soon see) cute as hell.

Our awesome donor gave 65 (!!!!!!) robotic toy bugs (known as HEXbugs) to my class of preschool through second grade kids. We don't have a lot of cool supplies for science, so we are definitely going to use these for a unit on experimentation--I'm thinking building mazes and seeing how fast the HEXbugs can move through them.

Thank you, thank you so much. My kids are freaking STOKED. We also had a nice talk about donation and about someone who doesn't know them (which blows their mind because they live in a town where everybody knows everybody) was nice enough to send them cool toys to use in class. I am going to let them each have one once the unit is over, as well.

Here is a link to the kids playing with them: