“I like winning my passport test,” he said.As a reward, the Woodland Elementary School first-grader picked out a decorative postage stamp for his passport book. Students in first through fifth grade participate in the Passport Club, which Was designed by Lynn Erickson, a teacher at Centennial Elementary School in Olympia. They learn the locations of several countries and must identify them on blank maps for PTA volunteers.The program wouldn’t be possible without the PTA members, third-grade teacher Trish Stier said. The parent-teacher association pays for the passport books and stamps, and supplies glue sticks and highlighters, said Karla Stanton, the volunteer organizer.Stanton spends hundreds of hours preparing the maps and passports and cutting out the postage stamps, said Stier and fellow volunteer Cindy Beal.“We’re so fortunate,” Stier said. “At this age, if they learn geography, they have it.”For next month, the first-graders must memorize the locations of about four countries, while fifth-graders will tackle More than 20 locations, including the islands of Antigua and Barbuda. The fifth-graders also get More stamps for their efforts.First-grade teacher Greg Turner, a coin collector, gives his students coins from two or three of the countries each month.“I do not have Mauritania, because nobody goes - More available
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