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

Happy Birthday Mr. Parisi

Today we got a letter and photos from a friend abroad in USA while we were at school. Mr. John Parisi, we're so excited to receive your first letter on your birthday. Here are our hand- made birthday cards for you. We decorated them especially for you. May the year ahead be filled with love, joy, abundance, and all the good things you want of life. HAPPY BIRTHDAY FROM ALL OF US...YOU MAKE 81 LOOK GOOD!!! We're looking forward to reading your stories...

From Maha To Habib In Germany

A Message From A New Friend, Mr. John Parisi

Dear Ms. Rawya: To introduce myself, my name is John, and I live in America. I am eighty years old, retired from the Post Office and now would like to write to someone in a foreign country like Lebanon. Lebanon is a very interesting country to learn about. Now that I am retired I can pursue what interest me the most, and that is to write to someone in another country, and to learn their customs etc.. I have much experience with six to eight year olds. Sometimes I go to our school and tell stories to the children. I don't have a picture to send you by computer. If I have the name of the school and the address I would like to write and put pictures in the mail. It is wonderful that you are teaching the children English.Tell your students hello for me, hello, from someone far away. I would like to hear from you. Sincerely yours, John Parisi

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.

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.

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.

Habib Seeking His Roots

Habib's letter translation of Habib's letter

Habib is a student in Northern Germany. He has just started learning English. He wants very much to get in touch with pupils from Lebanon. His parents are Lebanese and he is in search of his roots. Habib wants to learn more about his culture, the life, and every day experience in Lebanon. Habib, we are so delighted to receive your letter. Your teacher told us a lot about you. We'll write you back and send pictures soon. We all love you!

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!