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Third grade students from Linwood Elementary School are getting to know what life would be like if they lived in Finland. They are participating in a year-long cultural exchange with a third grade class at Aittakorpi Elementary School in Kotka, Finland.
During the school year, both third grade classes will learn about students in Finland through exchanging boxes of items, including art projects, representing their country and state. They will also send emails and possibly video chat.
Sue Mullen, one of the third grade teachers at Linwood, said her classes are already collecting items to send.broadstreet.zone(48036);
“One student immediately checked out books on Finland and began practicing some Finnish words,” she said in a press release. “They are very excited!”
To kick off the exchange, Finnish school principal Pekka Posti and three of his teachers, Ville Vahvanen, Anni Rantanen, and Maija Kuitunen, visited Linwood Elementary on Oct. 26 to see the school and classrooms.

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Ben Utecht has written a book about his life as a college and professional football player who suffered five major concussions. He has surprising advice for parents of youth football players.
Utecht, whose concussions slowly are eroding his memory, believes boys should not play tackle football until they are in ninth grade.
His book, “Counting the Days While My Mind Slips Away,” details his love of football, despite the injuries it caused, and his deep love of family and his amazing effort to preserve his most precious asset: his brain.broadstreet.zone(48036);
In talks throughout the country, Utecht advises parents: “Speaking as a parent, I would like to consider a later entrance age for children into contact sports like football … and in return follow the National Football League’s example of creating a national first-through-eighth-grade, highly competitive, noncontact football league.”
He goes on to stress that such a noncontact football league could prevent seven years of

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