Newburyport: Jeffrey Thurston, right, reads off the spelling of the Yangtze River as Keenan Jackson, both 7, writes it onto a map they made in Kristin Callahan's class at the Bresnahan School on Thursday. As part of their geography lessons children chose a continent to study and made a map of it and filled in rivers and mountain ranges. Bryan Eaton/Staff Photo

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