January 17, 2010

Dear Ms. England’s Class,

I am so excited to tell you about the very exciting adventure I had with Tidy Teddy. He traveled almost 500 miles to Hinsdale, Illinois, which is a small town near the big city of Chicago, Illinois. The town has a lot of houses and streets with many different kinds of stores. One place that I wanted to show Tidy Teddy visit was Einstein’s Bagel Shop because he didn’t know what a bagel was.

When I went inside, the people working there were very friendly and were excited to tell us all about bagels. Tidy Teddy learned that the first bagel was created centuries ago. Did you know that a century is one hundred years? This means bagels have been around for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years. Wow, that’s a long time!

Tidy Teddy had never tasted a bagel before and the people working there told me it tastes like bread because it is a roll with a hole in it.  Can you think of why someone would want a hole in their roll? I discovered that the hole made it easy for people to sell them on the street because they could put many bagels on a stick or string and walk around the streets selling them.

A very nice manager named Caroline showed us the baskets and baskets of bagels waiting to be sold to hungry people. They had blueberry, chocolate, wheat, cinnamon raisin, and many more different kinds.  What kind of bagel would you like to eat?  Tidy Teddy picked a blueberry bagel.  Caroline cut the bagel in half for him and put some peanut butter on it.  Yum, yum.  It tasted wonderful.

When it was time for me to go, we thanked Caroline and all the people working at the bagel store for teaching us all about bagels. It was fun for Tidy Teddy to learn something new and to make some new friends.  I loved having Tidy Teddy come for a visit!

Love,

Mrs. England