Friendship Cards From Roosevelt Elementary School: CA, USA

Our pen pals from "The Children's Creative Learning Center" at Roosevelt Elementary School in CA, USA have sent us beautiful cards, stickers, and poems. We're delighted to see what they have created for us. They decorated their cards with markers, glitter, and drawings. We're already preparing cards to send you and we'll try to answer all your questions. Thank you Mr. Robbie Christensen...your stickers and lovely letter made our day shine!

New Friends From Malaysia

These are pictures of my students(SENA Cyberkids Club) at Sekolah Kebangsaan Sena. From left-front Mira,Amirah, left-back Muaz,Danish,Akif,Izzah,Dayana & Ameer from class 3 Musytari. From left-front...Hafizuddin,Marha Marini & Azim from left-back..Syafiqah,Irdina,Izzat,Bibi Mirsya,Farah Insyirah & Izzah from class 5 Elit.This group is involved in creating e-magazine for SENA Cyberkids Club 2010. Regards from Malaysia Ms. Muainah Ismail We're so excited to have new friends from Malyasia and would like to know more about your country, your traditions and customs. We're looking forward to collaborate with you and have great time together.

Best Regards from Lebanon

A Postcard From The Children's Creative Learning Center In USA

We're so excited to have received a beautiful postcard in the mail all the way from our friends at Roosevelt Elementary School in California, USA.

Thank you so much. We're looking forward to receiving your second postcard as you promised...

Our best wishes to you all!

Letters To Our Friends In Maine, USA

can't wait to hear from you...

Letters To Our Friends At Mid Calder Primary, UK

Ms. Gordon, thank you...we are developing real- life writing and social experience with you. We'd love to hear from you.

Best Out Of Waste: Indian Heights School

Ms. Meenal Katre, headteacher of Indian Heights School

The Indian Heights School motivates children to do art work out of waste materials and our new friends really turned trash into the most marvelous art pieces. Thank you Ms. Meenal Katre for showing us new ways in which "waste is not waste" and how beautiful artwork can be created!

Recycling Project: JNV Bhiwani, India

Papier mache work by our friends at JNV Bhiwani School for recycling the waste paper... They made beautiful things reusing and recycling papers. Thank you Ms. Namita Verma for sharing your recycling project with us and hope you like ours, too.

Snowman Voicethread: Craig CO, USA

Many thanks Mrs. Arnett...Well Done for the work you have been doing. This is a fantastic use of Voicethread! We'll leave voice messages next week.

Scotland's National Poet, Robert Burns: Mid Calder Primary

Scots around the world celebrate January 25, Robert Burns' birthday, Scotland's National Poet who was born in 1759. Robert Burns grew up poor, his father did his best to educate his bright and lively son even though not many years could be spent at school. Still, Burns was a reader and learnt not only the ins and outs of his own language, but English as well (and some French). Robert Burns' poetry revolves around country and town life, the life he knew. He published a book of his poems in 1786 and achieved an unexpected success! Mrs Ghafoor, primary 4 has been working on 'Things Scottish' as Monday was the celebration of Robert Burns birthday.

Mrs Hendry's class has also posted a video to the work of P6B. They designed their very own mini haggis. The poem, Address to a Haggis, by Robert Burns is recited by Jack, P7B and the song A Man's a Man is sung by some primaries sevens. Thank you Mrs. Ghafoor, Mrs Hendry, and Mrs. Wilma Gordon for sharing with us your slideshow and video and showing us the activities done at school with our friends. You made this day a very special day especially with your amazing research, presentation and the bright beautiful bulletin board display.

Letters From Mid Calder Primary School

We all shine like stars!

We are really very excited to receive letters from our friends at Mid Calder Primary School in the United Kingdom. You gave us the possibility to use English for a real purpose. Thank you Ms. Maah- Rukh for collaborating with us to integrate a letter- exchange program in the classroom.

Letters from Grade Four to their Friends at Windmill Primary School in Nottingham

Building A Snowman Without Snow: Craig, CO, USA

Winter is a time for many fun activities with snow. One of the snow adventures is to make a snowman. The traditional way is to head outdoors and pack the snow, but our friends at Sunset Elementary School in Craig Colorado, USA, have built their own snowmen without any snow! Mrs. Cheryl Arnett, what a fun winter activity! This is the sweetest project I have seen in a long time...Those snowmen are adorable... and your video is very fun to watch!

SUPER CUTE! Thank You

The Best Gift I Ever Received: East Elementary School, CO, USA

What makes a gift the best you ever had? There are many gifts which are given to us, but some gifts are so different...they give us the feeling of being special! Second graders at East Elementary School in Colorado, USA, made a very cute video about the best gift they ever received. Mrs. Tiffany Eddins Trevenen, thank you ... it's a fun project we love to make and share.

Writing Letters Back- and- Forth: Roosevelt Elementary School, CA, USA

from California

receiving and writing letters

to California

We have recently received our first letters from Roosevelt Elementary School in Burlingame, California, USA and we began exchanging letters with them. We have lots of questions for our new friends. It's exciting to send letters to California, but receiving responses is better! Thank you Robbie Christensen, we cherish your friendship...hoping it will grow through our letters.

Our Wiki Project

WE ARE PALS!

Today we wrote our first letters to our epals on wiki. We have our photos and names and a page for each one of us with pals from Craig, Colorado; Henniker, New Hampshire; and Lusaka, Zambia . It's a great opportunity for us to interact and directly share information about where we live and our interests. We'll be sending letters by posting them on our pages every week. We can also edit and add pages with different topics to this wiki.

We would like you to visit our wiki cause we have so much news to share!

A Special Bond With The Elderly Community: Maine, USA

"Our community has a growing number of elderly people. We have a local organization, Spectrum Generations, that helps them stay connected within our community. The community being Nobleboro and other surrounding towns. Mrs Paula welcomed this group of people into her classroom several years ago and it has grown into something very special. Students in grades 2 & 3 meet with senior buddies once a month for the entire school year. Activities are planned for each visit. Everyone enjoys making friends and creating a special bond with the elderly community. Our last visit of the year is always a little sad as buddies say good-bye for the summer.Our Voice Thread project are pictures of students with their buddy holding a Thanksgiving turkey they made together. Hope you enjoy!" Mrs. Linda Taylor

What gifts do the elderly prefer more than care and concern??? NO words can describe these photos...these are the photos that describe LOVE...We can feel the warmth and happiness just looking at them.

Mrs Schuster and Mrs Taylor, you have touched our hearts....Good teachers create good learners, but GREAT teachers like you, create better human beings.

You are making a difference!

THANK YOU