Our pen pal project was one of the most rewarding and worthwhile student activities I've ever led.
My class worked on their replies and sent them off to England. My students, all fourth graders, were so excited to get letters in the mail that had their names written on the envelope. They each included a basic overview of their life and a bunch of questions. To start, her students wrote short letters to my class. She was enthusiastic about the letter-writing project and we designed it with a literacy and social studies cross-curricular objective. I asked a former colleague if she was interested in her students becoming pen pals with mine.
To ease my homesickness, I decided to set up a pen pal exchange between my new school and my old school back in England.
#Worldwide snail mail pen pals tv#
I moved to North America from the UK over a decade ago, and when I first arrived, I missed all sorts of things, from TV shows and foods to country-specific lesson content.